"Mission accomplished" as Aussies win Ashes in just 11 days

• LISTEN LIVE: Every ball of the Ashes
• Australia win the Adelaide Test by 82 runs
• Australia win the Ashes 3-0 with two Tests remaining
• England battle on Day 5 but fail to get close to Aussies
• Alex Carey wins Player of the Match

Australia has won the 2025/26 Ashes series in just 11 days!

The Aussies were made to work hard for one and a half sessions on Day 5, with England battling at the crease to give themselves a chance of victory.

Ultimately, the visitors fell 82 runs short, with Scott Boland nicking off Josh Tongue to claim the series.

Will Jacks (47) and Jamie Smith (60) gave their side some hope on the final day, but the Aussies just had too many runs on the board.

Mitchell Starc (3/62) claimed three of the four wickets on Day 5.

The one negative for Australia was the hamstring injury to Nathan Lyon, with the veteran off-spinner likely out for some time.

Check out how the action went down on Day 5 here.

2:43 - Australia win the Ashes!

England 352 - Australia win by 82 runs

That's it! Scott Boland takes the final wicket with Josh Tongue edging to Marnus Labuschagne in second slip!

Australia wrap up the Ashes in just 11 days! For all of the talk pre-series about England's hopes, they've been utterly dominated to lose the series so quickly.

"The Ashes are secure, it's mission accomplished in Adelaide! We should be so proud," Gerard Whateley.

"In the face of much adversity, Australia win 3-0. England fought the fight here, but the fall of BazBall comes in just 11 days!

"The urn remains down under!"

"BazBall is officially dead!" - Simon Katich.

2:34pm - Starc removes Archer!

England 9/349 - Carse 37, Tongue to the crease

Mitchell Starc gets another huge wicket, with Jofra Archer out caught at deep point!

The Aussies are just one wicket away from winning the urn.

"They're one wicket away from Ashes retention!" - Adam Collins.

England need 86 to win, but surely it's a bridge too far now!

2:30pm - Edgy England getting some lives

England 8/348 - Carse 37, Archer 3

England have edged two deliveries off the bowling of Scott Boland, but with Alex Carey up to the stumps and the slips in close, neither were realistic chances of being caught.

The visitors are going to need all of the luck to go their way from here with 86 to win.

For this brief moment, the little things are ever so slightly going their way.

2:13pm - Starc the breakthrough!

England 8/337 - Carse 29, Archer to the crease

What a grab from Marnus Labuschagne to remove Will Jacks on 47!

Starc came around the wicket and got the No. 8 driving, with a genuine edge flying to the cordon.

It was no doubt Alex Carey's catch, but Labuschagne backed himself, flew in front of the keeper and reeled in a ripping grab!

"Labuschagne goes across Alex Carey, a left-handed speccy, that is as good as it gets!" - Adam Collins.

"He's taken that out of Carey's gloves virtually."

The equation. Australia needs 2 wickets. England needs 98 runs.

2:08 - Less than 100 needed

England 7/337 - Jacks 47, Carse 29

England are making a real go at this chase, and they only need 98 to win now.

Carse looks incredibly comfortable out there, and Jofra Archer is in next who made 51 in the first dig.

The visitors are well and truly in this one. It's now time to genuinely dare to dream.

1:55pm - Carse gets a repreive!

England 7/317 - Jacks 44, Carse 15

Pat Cummins has Brydon Carse out LBW according to the umpire, but upon review, it's missing leg stump.

The England No. 9 remains not out on 15. Cummins will have to keep fronting up to make the much needed breakthrough.

1:50pm - Play is back underway

England 7/316 - Jacks 43, Carse 15

The loss of Nathan Lyon is already making an impact, with Travis Head bowling the second over after Lunch.

Simon Katich thinks it might be a ploy to get Carse out attacking the part-time off-spinner.

Either way, you'd expect the game to move along somewhat if Head has the ball. England will score quite easily... or he'll get a quick wicket and be taken off again.

119 to win now. It's game on!

1:30pm - Lyon arrives hospital on crutches

LUNCH

1:03pm - England's session

England 7/309 - Jacks 38, Carse 13

That was absolutely England's session, with the visitors scoring 102 runs for the loss of one wicket.

Needing just 126 to win, the Poms aren't out of this one yet.

We won't be headed for a draw given the two sessions we have remaining.

"An intriguing Test match on the brew in Adelaide..." - Gerard Whateley.

12:45pm - Lyon sent for scans

England 7/307 - Jacks 37, Carse 12

The Aussie spinner has left the Adelaide Oval as he heads for scans on his injured hamstring.

The home side are going to have to do this without their front-line spinner, with Cricket Australia confirming that Lyon is now out of the Test match.

The English need 128 to win now, with Brydon Carse - who has two First Class centuries - looking the best he has with the bat for the series thus far.

12:26pm - Starc strikes!

England 7/285 - Jacks 29, Carse to the crease

Starc gets Smith!

The keeper-bat was smashing the Aussies everywhere but couldn't help himself as he tried to take the left-armer on for a fourth ball in a row.

He skies one and Pat Cummins makes no mistake at mid-wicket.

Australia need three wickets to win! England still needing 150 runs.

"He's gone! They get their man in the end and they're three wickets away from Ashes retention!" - Adam Collins.

"From hope to despair!" - Bharat Sundaresan. "That could well be the final nail in England's coffin."

12:23pm - Smith giving England a reason to believe

England 6/276 - Smith 52, Jacks 28

Jamie Smith brings up his fifty with a pair of brilliant shots off the bowling of Pat Cummins.

"Jamie Smith is giving England a reason to beleive here!" - Adam Collins.

England need 159 to run, and while Australia are still favourites, the dressing room certainly haven't lost hope of a remarkable victory.

12:05pm - Lyon injured

England 6/250 - Smith 29, Jacks 25

Nathan Lyon is off the field with a hamstring injury.

The veteran injured himself while diving to field a ball at fine leg, immediately grabbing his right hamstring after stopping the ball.

If Lyon is out of the game, he finishes with 3/77 in the second innings.

"This is a diabolical moment. Nathan Lyon has wrenched the right hamstring on a dive to save the boundary." - Gerard Whateley.

"Brilliant fielding, but this is going to be costly, he can't put any weight through that right leg." - Damien Fleming.

Spinners around the country will now be every chance of playing in Melbourne, Sydney or both.

Could this also impact England's chase in a big way?

11:40m - The covers are off

England 6/241 - Smith 25, Jacks 21

Play will be returning shortly.

The sun is now shining brightly in Adelaide and there appears to be more clear skies on the horizon.

The restart is set for 11:50am (AEDT) and 11:20am local time.

Lunch is now set for 1:00pm (AEDT) and 12:30pm local time.

11:11am - Rain delay

England 6/241 - Smith 25, Jacks 21

The players are off the field due to a rain delay, but SEN Cricket's Adam Collins doesn't think much time will be lost here.

"It won't be a long delay, the rain is already stopping but we'll go through the motions." - Adam Collins.

The Barmy Army are happy about the delay, although a draw here would see Australia retain the Ashes...

10:55am - Is this Test truly over?

England 6/232 - Smith 17, Jacks 20

With the runs required nearing 200, Lisa Sthalekar thinks there could be some lift in this match yet.

Obviously everything would have to go right for England, but the former Aussie star thinks that the English could make the home side quite nervous if they bat until drinks.

"I still think this Test can be quite interesting if these two last for the first hour and keep eating away into the total." - Lisa Sthalekar.

Jacks looks fairly comfortable at the crease, while Smith is chancing his arm with some aerial shots.

10:33am - First over in the books

England 6/210 - Smith 11, Jacks 5

Nathan Lyon is through the first over on Day 5.

With everyone expecting the Aussies to win, the question now is how long England can hold out for.

Gerard Whateley, Damien Fleming and Simon Katich all foresee Australia bowling somewhere between 20 or 30 overs on Day 5 to get the job done.

Whichever way it goes, you can follow along with all the big moments here!

10:10am - BazBall authors certain heads will roll

The authors of the book, Bazball: The inside story of a Test cricket revolution, Nick Hoult and Lawrence Booth, are certain heads will roll after this Ashes series.

With England looking destined to go down 3-0 on Day 5 in Adelaide, it'll be just 11 days of cricket this series for the Aussies to win the series.

Booth, who writes for the Daily Mail, and Lawrence from the "UK Telegraph* spoke to Gerard Whateley ahead of play where they predicted mass change if things continue to go south.

"Yes, it probably is," Hoult said in response to if this is the demise of BazBall.

"I think that there will be changes after this tour, depending on what happens in the next two Test matches, but the way it's going, it's not looking too clever, and I suspect there's going to be people who are going to pay the price for that.

"Certainly if it ends up 4-0 or 5-0, I don't think no change is an option. You have to make changes at that point."

"Yeah (I share that view)," Booth said.

"We've seen this story before, when England come to Australia and lose 4-0 or 5-0, heads do roll.

"It's the one series that the floating sports fan in the UK gets interested in. If you don't like cricket, you still know about the Ashes, and I've had friends at home who don't like cricket that have gone, 'What is this BazBall?', it has interested people who don't usually get into cricket.

"They've paid attention, they've been told that England have a chance, and they've let them down.

"Rob Key, the managing director, will be under pressure, so too Brendan McCullum, the coach.

"There will be questions about Ben Stokes even. All the big names, their necks will be on the block over the next couple of weeks."

9:40am - Starc speaks ahead of Day 5

Aussie quick Mitchell Starc has spoken to SEN Cricket’s Adam Collins ahead of the day’s play.

The big left-armer and player of the series so far credited his teammates for setting up the game with the bat, while also touching on Nathan Lyon and Pat Cummins’ brilliant bowling late on Day 4.

“Hopefully we can carry on that momentum on from last night,” Starc said.

“We sit here with four wickets to go and we find ourselves in a good position.

“Now it’s up to us bowlers to finish off the job today.”

Listen to Starc’s full chat here.

9:15am - No real fears about today's weather

The only thing stopping a result on Day 5 is weather in Adelaide, with 6mm of rain forecast.

Luckily, it appears most of that rain fell earlier this morning, and SEN's Gerard Whateley expects play to start on time, with no showers on the horizon either.

"Rain has fallen this morning in Adelaide, but the radar has rain to the west and inland to the east," Gerard Whateley said on SEN Cricket.

"While it's gloomier and cooler than it has been all Test match, the pitch and ground is being prepared for a 10am (local) start."

Today's top temperature in the City of Churches is set for a comfortable 24c.

8:55am - Pom's view on England's innings

The Telegraph's Oliver Brown has slammed Harry Brook for for his efforts on Day 4.

With the door slightly ajar as the star No. 5 and Zak Crawley batted together, Brook tried to reverse sweep Nathan Lyon where he was embarrassingly bowled.

Brown says his 'witless self-destruction sums him and England up'.

"Wildly off balance, with his limbs splayed from an abortive reverse sweep, Harry Brook looked as if he had no idea what had hit him. It felt a fitting motif for England’s befuddlement on this tour, for their woeful inability to anticipate the Australian juggernaut thundering towards them," Brown wrote in The Telegraph.

"Brook, the country’s most extravagantly gifted young batsman, just stood there dumbfounded, confused as to whether he had been bowled or stumped. Advancing to a delivery from Nathan Lyon that pitched outside off stump and spun devilishly, he could only swipe at thin air as the ball clipped the top of leg stump. And sure as night follows day, his team would tumble through the trapdoor once more.

"At the start of this series, there were excited whispers within the England camp that Brook had the talent to decide at least two Tests on his own. But such is his addiction to circus flourishes, his high-water mark so far has been a flashy 52 in Perth.

"When his side have needed him to pace himself according to the situation, he has too often been the author of his own demise. The difference here, perhaps, was that the picture was self-evident: reach stumps only three down, and England might just have entertained a dream of completing a world-record fourth-innings chase. Instead, where he led with his scrambled thinking, others followed him like lemmings over a cliff."