The Latest Breaking News from Ben Stokes

Richie Robinson, the new Headingley groundsman, made his Ashes debut while England captain Ben Stokes keeps his masterful record as a coin tosser

Alex Carey and his Australia team-mates were criticised following the second Ashes Test at Lord's for the controversial stumping of England favourite Jonny Bairstow

Jonny Bairstow was stumped by Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey during the second Ashes Test at Lord's last Sunday - despite the England batter assuming the ball was dead

Four years ago, Ben Stokes produced one of the greatest-ever Test innings to propel England to an extraordinary one-wicket victory in the third Ashes Test at Headingley, said Mike Atherton in The Times. And for a while at Lord’s on Sunday, a similar “miracle looked on the cards”. 

England are 2-0 down in the Ashes Test series after a controversial defeat at Lord's last week

The third match of the Ashes 2023 gets underway in Leeds on Thursday July 6. Here's how to watch an Ashes 2023 live stream from anywhere on 9Now, Sling, TVNZ, Sky and more.

Four years on from Headingley 2019, England need victory to prevent Australia retaining the urn

England have it all to do if they are to avoid another series defeat to Australia in The Ashes.

Defeats at Edgbaston and Lord’s have left the hosts trailing the five-Test series 2-0 – a deficit only overcome once, by Australia, in 1936-37.