The Ashes

Can Ben Stokes' England make history Down Under?

- WORDS: RICHARD MCCLURE

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From Thursday, play starts 2.30am, TNT Sports 1 & Discovery+

One of sport's greatest rivalries resumes when England's cricketers take on Australia in the most-anticipated Ashes series for years as the first Test begins in Perth in the early hours of Friday morning.

TNT Sports and Discovery+ will be showing every Test live throughout the night as captain Ben Stokes' side seeks to regain the famous urn after the Aussies retained the Ashes in England in the summer of 2023.