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Team India manager Gautam Gambhir and Australia and England skippers
Australia person secured a 2-0 pb successful the 2025/26 Ashes bid by defeating England with an eight-wicket triumph successful the Brisbane day-night Test connected Sunday.Joe Root achieved his archetypal Test period successful Australia, helping England scope 334 successful their archetypal innings. Zak Crawley contributed 76 runs, portion Jofra Archer scored 38, making it the third-highest people of the innings.Australia responded powerfully successful their innings, with each batter scoring treble figures without reaching a century. They established a important 177-run pb implicit England.England's 2nd innings began promisingly with a 48-run opening partnership. However, they soon struggled, falling to 97-3 and aboriginal 128-6, facing the anticipation of an innings defeat.Ben Stokes
and
Will Jacks
showed resilience during the archetypal league of time four. They achieved England's archetypal implicit batting league without losing a wicket successful the 2025/26 Ashes.
Their concern added 96 runs successful 221 deliveries for the seventh wicket.Australia needed 65 runs to triumph but mislaid 2 wickets during the chase. Travis Head was bowled aft the shot deflected disconnected his stumps, and Marnus Labuschagne was caught down disconnected Gus Atkinson's bowling. The hosts completed the triumph successful 10 overs, with
Steve Smith
finishing the lucifer with a six.Australia support their apical presumption successful the World Test Championship standings with 5 victories successful 5 matches.
South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India implicit the apical 5 positions.England person moved down to seventh spot from their erstwhile sixth position. New Zealand, pursuing their caller gully against the West Indies, person moved up to sixth place.
Here is the existent WTC 2025-27 standings
| 1 | Australia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 100 |
| 2 | South Africa | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 75 |
| 3 | Sri Lanka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 66.67 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 50 |
| 5 | India | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 48.15 |
| 6 | New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 33.33 |
| 7 | England | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 30.95 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16.67 |
| 9 | West Indies | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5.55 |
