Simon Smale

Joe Root scores the first Ashes century of his career on Australian soil, as Mitchell Starc's 6-71 enlivens a thrilling day of Test cricket. 

Max Verstappen wins the Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix after a McLaren pit stop error costs Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.

Australia's Ashes domination in Brisbane is almost total, with England winless at the Gabba since 1986. It wasn't always like this though, with the first visit to Brisbane resulting in the heaviest defeat in cricket history.

Oscar Piastri's hopes of winning the F1 title suffered a hammer blow after McLaren's strategy error in Qatar, but there is still hope. Here's how the Aussie can upset the odds in Abu Dhabi's decider.

As England counts the cost of its first Ashes Test defeat, questions over how its world-beating pace attack was rendered so impotent and its high-class batters so comprehensively lost the plot will rumble all the way to Brisbane.

David Boon is one of Australia's greatest and most-beloved Test cricketers. His debut, at the Gabba on November 23, 1984 was not the most auspicious of starts, though.

Nobody plays at boxing. But Jake Paul's upcoming contest against a bona fide, former two-time unified heavyweight champion of the world smacks of a game about to go seriously wrong. 

Ahead of the 2025/26 Ashes series getting underway on November 21 in Perth, test out your knowledge in our fiendish Ashes quiz.

A missed turn on the bike, a miscount on the run and an athlete protest turn the T100 Dubai event into a farce, with New Zealander Hayden Wilde left particularly livid. 

Has England compromised its pre-Ashes preparation by playing only one three-day warm-up match against its own reserve team before the first Test in Perth? The numbers say no.