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England to Play Australia in 'Extra' One-Off Test Separate to the Ashes

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Updated 11:52 17 Dec 2025 GMTPublished 11:48 17 Dec 2025 GMT

England to Play Australia in 'Extra' One-Off Test Separate to the Ashes

England will play Australia in a one-off Test match in 2027.

Nasir Jabbar

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England are set to play Australia in a one-off Test match that will be separate to the Ashes.

Australia are currently hosting England in the 2025/26 Ashes series.

As things stand, the Aussies are two-nil up, having won the first two Test matches of the series.

They beat the tourists by eight wickets in Perth before securing another eight-wicket victory in Brisbane.

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Australia won the toss and chose to bat on the first day of the third Test match in Adelaide, posting a score of 326-8 at stumps.

Alex Carey hit a century and Usman Khawaja scored 82, while Jofra Archer picked up three wickets, including the dismissal of Marnus Labuschagne.

After the third Test, England travel to Melbourne before ending the series in Sydney.

England will host their old rivals in 2027, with Lord's and Edgbaston, among other grounds, staging Test matches.

Pat Cummins and Ben Stokes during the coin toss for the Test Ashes test. Image: Getty
Pat Cummins and Ben Stokes during the coin toss for the Test Ashes test. Image: Getty

But England and Australia will renew hostilities before the 2027 Ashes series in an 'extra' Test match.

Australia and England will play in a one-off Test match, which will be a day/night game, at Melbourne's MCG from March 11-15, 2027, to mark the 150 years of the format and honour the rich rivalry between the two cricketing nations.

England's squad from the 1977 Test match against Australia. Image: Getty
England's squad from the 1977 Test match against Australia. Image: Getty

The MCG hosted its inaugural Test match from March 15 to 19, 1877, which Australia won by 45 runs before England won the second match at the same venue to tie the series 1-1.

The 100th anniversary of the inaugural Test was also marked with a game between Australia and England at the MCG in 1977, with Australia again winning by 45 runs.

Cricket Australia's chief executive Nick Hockley said: "The 150th anniversary Test match at the MCG in March 2027 will be a wonderful celebration of the pinnacle format of the game at one of the world's great sporting arenas and we can't wait to host England on that occasion."

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Topics: Australia, Cricket, England

Nasir Jabbar
Nasir Jabbar

Nasir Jabbar is a journalist at SPORTbible. He graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA in Media Communications. He's a combat sport aficionado and has contributed to MMA websites AddictedMMA and CagePotato. Nasir has covered some of the biggest fights, while interviewing the likes of Conor McGregor, Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Darren Till. He's also an avid Bristol City fan.

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