The Ashes Tour of Australia 2025/26

Updated collapse list by England in Ashes series in Australia since 2013/14.

54/7, 49/7, 61/7, 112/5, 61/6, 57/5, 53/6, 48/6, 62/6, 79/7, 56/6, 82/6, 142/7, 64/7, 35/6, 85/6, 89/4, 118/7, 148/7, 60/5, 74/8, 79/7, 105/6, 185/10, 68/10, 36/4, 49/4, 77/5, 85/5, 78/5, 56/9, 57/6, 99/9, 88/6, 80/6.and 17/4.

That equates to an overall collapse of 2751/227 at 12.12 runs per wicket
It also means the average collapse is 6.3 wickets per collapse with 76.41 runs scored in each collapse.

Win Toss Collapse lose Repeat lol.

Same old, same old England in Australia. Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley, hang your heads in shame getting caught and bowled like that. Fuck me.

A grizzly, gruesome Ashes test match from hell yet again in Australia for a dismal England.

Endless self inflicted dismissals with the bat. No lessons learnt whatsoever from what has gone before. Poor discipline with the ball. Dropped catches galore at critical moments.

Australia meanwhile put on an absolute clinic. Meaningful batting contributions from the entire top seven and then Starc as well. Batted time to get England batting when artificial light took hold.
In both England innings the Aussie bowlers just nagged away at a relentless line and length in a correct expectation that the batters would succumb to irresponsible temptation.
Sure enough yet more England collapses have materialised in both innings. Typically of course the Aussies have barely dropped anything and taken their chances. Hammering home their advantage with ruthless efficiency.

Thirty five successive batting collapses this is now for England in away Ashes series since 2013. Bazball or no Bazball almost all of those collapses have started with one or two batsmen getting out needlessly.
Where as in previous series England may have drifted into their shells and just waited for the inevitable demise in this series it seems to be a case of keep trying to waft at balls outside off stump, play airy fairy drives and chuck your wicket away. It really is quite ridiculous.
There has been a decade plus long pattern of batters either being unwilling or incapable of playing each ball and each match situation on it's merits.

However the way this particular series is playing out has an extra layer of cause for contempt. Lack of accountability and to be frank a stubbornness of approach.

At Perth what came out of the England camp seemed to be a case of 'How were we to know Travis Head was going to play a knock like that?'. No acknowledgement whatsoever that in both England innings batters had frittered wickets away and ceded the advantage to a grateful opposition. No willingness to admit the approach was wholly wrong and the direct cause of defeat.
What I have heard from assistant coach Trescothick today is little or no better.
No admitting the approach is wrong.

To me this is reprehensible and delusional in the extreme. Geoffrey Boycott was right as usual in saying

'I cannot take this stupid England team seriously anymore.
They never learn, because they never listen to anyone outside their own bubble, because they truly believe their own publicity.'.

A truer word never spoken.

England has lost a wicket every 29 balls in this Ashes series.

total disgrace is all I can say.
Some of the team need to be bloody brutally honest and put their hand up and say publicly : -
"I fucked up big time"
Early P45's for McCallum, Stokes and whoever is overseeing this in the ECB. some of this team don't deserve to be in the team next summer as they are now just making England Cricket Team a laughing stock.
Someone needs to fly out and kick a few arses as hard as bloody possible.
Again stupid brainless batting, can't even string a decent innings/partnership together!! wouldn't surprise me if TMS decided to pack up, come home and left them to deal with the press/flak they are getting on their own and work it out for themselves how to get themselves out of the s**thole (quoting Trump) they have dug for themselves.


The bloody inquest into this tour after it is over, is going to hurt for a very long time and it will be felt for a long time too.

One other thing - 'Woeful' isn't a word I'd use to describe this - Pathetic is one.

How many major Test teams have we beaten in the last two years?

It was better for awhile today but another collapse again has sealed England's fate
Bowled out for quite frankly another Shit Total.

England better of playing 11 Batters they might get 350 one day.

Are we allowed to say that England Cricket is at a pivotal, crisis moment or not?

In the old days, we usually left for Australia end of October I think it was and spent the early part of November acclimatising and playing several state sides and an Australian Prime Minister's XI in the weeks before the first Test and getting into batting form. This arrogant side went to NZ and did a couple of T20's in prep for this and to me that is fool hardy as you are nowhere near the level of being prepared for Test cricket.

(07-12-2025 08:12 )Tbear Wrote:  It was better for awhile today but another collapse again has sealed England's fate
Bowled out for quite frankly another Shit Total.

England better of playing 11 Batters they might get 350 one day.

Collapse list duly updated.
36 in 35 innings .