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Ashes Player Ratings: Travis Head, Mitchell Starc, Ben Stokes and Joe Root are all rated

Ashes Player Ratings: Travis Head, Mitchell Starc, Ben Stokes and Joe Root are all rated

🚀 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Zach Crowley – 5 – An average of 27, which was exactly what was expected at the start of the series. He has not lived up to his back-man billing for Australia and should not be guaranteed a place in the home summer.Ben Duckett – 3 – He arrived with a reputation as one of the best batsmen across all formats in the world, leaving his career at a crossroads. Just 50 years old, the catch was dropped and videotaped in Noosa. Now we move…
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Ashes 2025-26: Jobs on the line after England’s Ashes defeat – Jonathan Agnew

Ashes 2025-26: Jobs on the line after England’s Ashes defeat – Jonathan Agnew

🚀 Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It looks like McCollum will be given the opportunity to turn things around, assuming he agrees to change his ways. I just don't think that's likely to happen.He played and led that way for New Zealand. He trains and lives his life in this relaxed way.McCullum is very good company, a decent man who did a good job in those early years in charge, but his methods proved not to work with this group of players in Test cricket.Baseball was not good for Ollie Pope,…
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Ashes 2025-26: England win in Sydney to give Australia a 4-1 win

Ashes 2025-26: England win in Sydney to give Australia a 4-1 win

🔥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This was meant to be the dazzling glory of Project Bazzball, a series England had been working towards for 18 months and which McCullum said could "define" his team.In the end, they were identified as another English team beaten in Australia. This was the fourth consecutive Ashes tour in which England lost at least four Tests.In this century alone, England have recorded 27 defeats in this country from 35 matches. Three of their five Test victories in that period came in the glorious triumph of…
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The Ashes 2025-26: Who made your team in the series?

The Ashes 2025-26: Who made your team in the series?

💥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Image source, Getty ImagesBBC Sport readers have chosen their team for the Ashes series.We've asked you to pick 11 players that include two openers, four middle-order or all-rounders, a wicket-keeper and four bowlers.Voting was completed during the fifth Test in Sydney.Here are who made the cut and their series stats.Travis Head - Australia (91%)Image source, Getty ImagesInnings: 10, Runs: 629, Average: 62.90, Centuries: ThreeThere is no doubt about this man's choice. Travis Head stepped up to open in the first Test and dominated from the…
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Ciaran Minagh: Derry manager tells Ciaran McFall ‘is not in a position to commit’

Ciaran Minagh: Derry manager tells Ciaran McFall ‘is not in a position to commit’

💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Derry manager Ciaran Minagh has confirmed that Ciaran McFaul is “not in a position to commit” to the 2026 Oak Leaf committee. McFaul came on as a second-half substitute in Derry's 2023 Ulster final win over Armagh, scoring the winning penalty in the shoot-out. The Glen man also won an All-Ireland title with his club in 2024, and has been one of the county's most consistent players over the past decade. “Ciaran McFaul is not in a position to commit this year, so he is…
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Antoine Semenyu celebrates Bournemouth’s fairytale moment ahead of Manchester City’s expected move

Antoine Semenyu celebrates Bournemouth’s fairytale moment ahead of Manchester City’s expected move

🚀 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There are no two ways about it, Semenyu will be a huge loss for Bournemouth.He has been their biggest goal threat this season - scoring 41% of their goals in the Premier League and notching the most shots of any Bournemouth player with 49, an impressive 27 of the goals.“He will be a big disadvantage because of his quality and also because of his personality in the dressing room,” Tavernier added.“If this is his last moment, we definitely have to find something else to move…
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Liam Rosenior has problems to fix at Chelsea – what’s on his to-do list after Fulham defeat?

Liam Rosenior has problems to fix at Chelsea – what’s on his to-do list after Fulham defeat?

💥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If Chelsea's relationship with the fans is not broken, it is sure to deteriorate.Just hours after Rosenior's appointment to his new role was confirmed, the Chelsea Supporters' Association released a highly critical poll - aimed not at the appointment, but at the club's leadership.Among the headlines was that more than half of respondents doubt that Chelsea will achieve success in the next three to five years under the current regime. A similar percentage lacks confidence in the ownership decision-making process.Rosenior seemed aware of the risks.…
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Brentford’s European mission – defying the odds with the brilliant Brazilian

Brentford’s European mission – defying the odds with the brilliant Brazilian

💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Brentford's decision not to sign another striker was partly down to circumstances, with a deal for Wessa not being completed until the deadline.But they also knew they had a £30m striker already waiting to go.Igor Thiago joined from Club Brugge in July 2024 for a then-club record fee, but was plagued by injury in his first season, going scoreless in eight matches.The 24-year-old has continued to make up for lost time this season, as his brace against Sunderland took him to 16 league goals…
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Darren Fletcher will take charge of the FA Cup – but Manchester United’s problems are much bigger

Darren Fletcher will take charge of the FA Cup – but Manchester United’s problems are much bigger

✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Darren Fletcher has confirmed that he will remain as Manchester United interim manager during their FA Cup third round match against Brighton at Old Trafford on Sunday.However, if there is one truth reinforced by United's 2-2 draw with Burnley at Turf Moor, it is that whatever problems exist at Old Trafford, they will not be solved simply by changing the man in charge.“They told me they wanted me to captain the team on Sunday,” Fletcher said."There was a feeling that might be the case on…
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Thomas Frank: The Tottenham coach is under more pressure and scrutiny after holding the trophy bearing the Arsenal logo

Thomas Frank: The Tottenham coach is under more pressure and scrutiny after holding the trophy bearing the Arsenal logo

✨ Discover this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Spurs fans have made their frustration clear on multiple occasions this season. They chanted "Tottenham are boring, boring" during the goalless draw against Frank's former side Brentford last week, while players were also booed after the draw with Sunderland. After the final whistle against Bournemouth, Pallina and defender Micky van de Ven exchanged words with the traveling Tottenham fans, after more shouts and comments directed at the team. Full-back Pedro Porro also had to be persuaded to stop a fight with fans by goalkeeper Guglielmo…
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