'McCullum, you're off our coaching': ENG coach receives message after Ashes loss

Australia won the day-night 2nd Ashes Test successful Brisbane by 8 wickets connected Sunday to instrumentality a 2-0 pb successful the five-match series. They chased the people of 65 successful 10 overs, with skipper Steve Smith hitting a six disconnected Gus Atkinson implicit quadrate limb to seal the result.England were outplayed again. Their batting struggled connected the Gabba surface, isolated from contributions by Joe Root and Zak Crawley successful the archetypal innings and Ben Stokes and Will Jacks successful the second. Several dismissals came from escaped shots. England's bowling besides lacked control, with abbreviated lengths and small usage of the caller pinkish ball, dissimilar Australia’s attack, which did not adjacent person Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood.England dropped 5 catches successful the archetypal innings, portion Australia held each their chances.

Josh Inglis’s run-out of Stokes successful the archetypal innings shifted the match. With this win, Australia strengthened their presumption successful the series, with Tests successful Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney inactive to come.

Iceland Cricket jibe

Iceland Cricket took a swipe astatine England caput manager Brendon McCullum aft the defeat. "Message to Brendon ‘Bazballup’ McCullum, you are besides disconnected our coaching wishlist," Iceland Cricket’s authoritative grip said successful a station connected X.

It is notable that Iceland Cricket had besides directed a akin remark astatine India's men’s caput manager Gautam Gambhir aft India’s 0-2 location Test bid nonaccomplishment to South Africa past month. "To each our fans, no, Gautam Gambhir volition not beryllium invited to beryllium our caller nationalist squad coach. That presumption is already filled and we won 75% of our matches successful 2025," the Iceland Cricket relationship had posted then.