How to watch Australia vs England: 2nd Ashes Test free streams

Before this series began, the Ashes 2nd Test in Brisbane looked set to be England’s toughest challenge of the five matches. It is a day-night Test played with a pink ball on a pitch where England have the lowest winning percentage among Australia’s current Test venues.

Although Australia lost their only previous pink-ball Test in Brisbane, against the West Indies in 2023, they have won their other 13. England, by contrast, are both less familiar with and less successful in the format: they have played seven pink-ball Tests and lost five. Two of England’s likely eleven, Gus Atkinson and Jamie Smith, have never played first-class cricket with a pink ball themselves.