Perth will host the primary Ashes Take a look at of the 2025/26 season, marking the primary time the venue has hosted a males’s Ashes conflict.
The Perth “West Take a look at” will kick off the five-Take a look at sequence on November 21, adopted by a day-night Take a look at in Brisbane on the Gabba from December 4-8.
Adelaide Oval will host a “Christmas Take a look at” on December 17, earlier than the now-traditional Boxing Day Take a look at on the MCG and New Yr’s Take a look at in Sydney.
Perth Stadium was imagined to have hosted the fifth Take a look at of the COVID-impacted 2020/21 sequence.
Nonetheless, as a consequence of Western Australia’s closed border, Hobart’s Bellerive Oval stepped in on the final minute to host its first-ever males’s Ashes Take a look at and save the sequence.
Cricket Australia mentioned it has launched the fixtures greater than 12 months earlier than a ball is because of be bowled to help in followers’ journey.
“There’s already huge pleasure surrounding the 2025/26 Ashes sequence,” CA common supervisor Joel Morrison mentioned.
“We’re happy to announce the dates for the 5 males’s Assessments to allow followers internationally to lock of their journey plans.
“The historical past and pleasure of the Ashes make it certainly one of world’s most iconic sporting occasions and we’re delighted this fierce and electrifying rivalry will lengthen over two summers in 2025 – commencing with the Ladies’s Ashes this summer time.”
It’s going to have been 43 years since an Australian dwelling Ashes marketing campaign opened wherever apart from Brisbane.
The final time it did so was in 1982, once more in Perth on the historic WACA floor, a match that resulted in a draw.
That sport was additionally memorable for Terry Alderman dislocating his shoulder when trying to sort out a spectator who had walked onto the sphere.
The Gabba will host its fourth day-night Take a look at, with Australia holding a 2-1 file on the venue in pink ball Assessments. (Getty Photographs: Cricket Australia/Ryan Pierse)
Alderman gave chase to certainly one of many people who invaded the enjoying space and fell awkwardly, leading to him lacking over a 12 months of cricket.
England has not performed a males’s Take a look at match in Perth since December 2017, when Australia have been victorious by an innings and 41 runs off the again of Steve Smith’s nine-and-a-half hour 239.
Australia received its final eight Assessments in opposition to England on the WACA, with England’s final victory coming 12 Assessments in the past in 1978.
The Gabba will host its fourth day-night Take a look at within the second match of the sequence, following matches in opposition to Pakistan in 2016, Sri Lanka in 2019 and West Indies in 2024.
Australia received its first 11 day-night Assessments, earlier than a Shamar Joseph-inspired West Indies pulled off an enormous shock on the Gabba final January.
Australia has misplaced two of its final 4 Assessments on the Gabba, in opposition to the West Indies (2024) and India (2021).
Its earlier Take a look at defeat on the venue got here in 1988 in opposition to the West Indies, a run of 31 Assessments with out defeat.
