Cricket Australia

The starting was not impressive as he would have liked, but following the initial hiccups, the stylish batter never looked back and continues to impress cricket fanatics around the globe. He has also gained the trust of Cricket Australia's think tanks in a short span of time. On Wednesday, Labuschagne climbed to the top of the ICC Test batting rankings. Three years on from making his debut.

Following their nine-wicket loss in the opening Test at The Gabba, the tourists lost the second Test at the Adelaide Oval on Monday, with the England pace battery, comprising James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Ollie Robinson, Chris Woakes and Ben Stokes, 'guilty' of bowling short in the first innings.

Australian captain Pat Cummins had to miss the second Ashes Test at the Adelaide Oval after he had come in contact with a COVID-positive person while dining out. "So (for Boxing Day), we'll be going up from our protocol level 3 to Level 4," Hockley told SEN Breakfast on Tuesday. The third Test is scheduled at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), while the fourth and fifth games of the Ashes series will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) and Hobart, respectively.

"Root is not an inspirational captain and this is indicated by the number of times his team work their way into a decent position but can't finish the job," Chappell said. "Root is an excellent batter but a poor captain. It's not that Root's team dislike him -- on the contrary -- it's just that he has taken so many poor decisions, they must be thinking, Oh no, not again," Chappell wrote for ESPNcricinfo.

Curran's exit is a big blow for the defending champions, who are also missing the services of spinners Ben Manenti and Steve O'Keefe due to neck stress fracture and calf injury respectively. Curran, a member of England's 2019 Cricket World Cup-winning team, had missed last season's BBL because of travel restrictions and quarantine rules.

The tourists -- after a brief fightback on Day 3 when Root and Dawid Malan steadied their second innings following a disastrous first-innings total of 147 -- lost eight wickets on the morning of Day 4 for just 77 runs as their innings folded up for 297 runs. Australia, set a target of 20 runs for victory, finished the job in the sixth over for the loss of Alex Carey.

It took the 34-year-old 326 days and 288 balls in jumping from 399th to 400th Test wicket. "Thank you. It's been a long time coming, I dare say. It's pretty amazing to get that breakthrough and start off a pretty fantastic session here this morning. Pretty stoked with it," Lyon said to cricket.com.au in a clip posted on Twitter. Lyon also became only the second spinner from outside Asia after fellow country-man and former leg-spinner Shane Warne to achieve the feat.

Match Referee David Boon imposed the sanction after Joe Root's side was found to be five overs short of the target with time allowances taken into consideration. In accordance with Article 2.22 of the Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to minimum over-rate offences, players are fined 20 per cent of their match fee for every over their side fails to bowl in the allotted time.

During the morning session on day four, a power outage at the stadium meant TV broadcast went down mid-way in the session, leaving Fox Sports, Seven Network and TV stations around the world with no cricketing action to show.

Warner's heroics at the T20 World Cup signalled he is back to his explosive best. "His record in Australia is ridiculous, so we know it's going to be a different animal to the one we faced in 2019 in our summer. We've played so much cricket against Warner, we know you can never say you're actually on top of him -- he's that good of a batter, he's got that much quality," Anderson told Fox Sports.