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Can Australia claim an Ashes double in 2025/26?

Australia's women stormed to an amazing 16-0 Ashes series victory against England to maintain their decade-long dominance and in just under a year it will be over to the men to try and complete a double success.

The women whitewashed their English counterparts with three ODI wins, three T20I victories and finally an innings and 122-run triumph in the lone Test match.

The men's series, which begins in Perth in November 2025, will be played as a more traditional five-Test series and the Baggy Green need only to draw to retain the Ashes, having won them back in 2017/18 and kept hold of them ever since.

Men's Ashes series 2025/26 outright odds

Australia - 1.61
Draw -
6.50
England -
3.50

Women set the standard to follow

When the women's Ashes series got underway in mid-January it was widely predicted to be a hard-fought affair, but the Aussies quickly asserted their authority and never once took their feet off the pedal.

Indeed, the Ashes were retained as soon as the fourth match of the series after four successive wins, but there was then no let-off as another three victories followed to complete the clean sweep.

The concluding Test win at the MCG was a suitable finale to an amazing series, with leg-spinner Alana King taking nine wickets in the match and Beth Mooney making a century to join the elite ranks of women who have passed three figures in all three formats of the game.

Mooney was way out in front of any batter on either side with 409 runs across the whole of the series, while spin ace King was head and shoulders above everyone else with 23 wickets.

The series left England with a mountain of problems to address, while Australia not only won with ease, but also continued the development of youngsters such as Phoebe Litchfield, Georgia Voll and Darcie Brown.

Now the baton is passed to the men to try and complete a notable Ashes double.

Home advantage huge for Baggy Green

England last won an Ashes series in Australia back in 2010/11 and since then they have toured three times and have been thrashed 5-0, 4-0 and 4-0, failing to win a Test in 15 attempts.

The Three Lions were also whitewashed 5-0 in their previous tour to their 2010/11 success, so it is clear that the recent record in Australia is firmly in the favour of the hosts.

With that in mind it is no surprise to see the Baggy Green as hot fancies at 1.61 to win the 2025/26 series, while England are 3.50 and the draw is priced up at 6.50.

It is worth saying that the last two Ashes series played in England have ended in 2-2 draws, with only the weather preventing a positive result in every match of the 2023 clashes.

England under the leadership of coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes take an approach which means that drawn Tests are highly unlikely, so Australia know that they will have to meet fire with fire.

That should not be beyond them, with a number of veteran stars likely to bow out of Test cricket at the end of the series - Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon could all call time and will want to go out on a high.

Recent Australian successes on home soil have been based around a four-man bowling attack full of world-class talent, with captain Pat Cummins joined by Starc, Hazlewood and Lyon.

Hazlewood has 76 career Ashes wickets to his name, while Lyon has 110 and Starc and Cummins are three and nine wickets respectively short of bringing up a century of Ashes victims.

They remain the key to making sure that England are handed a double Ashes defeat within the space of 12 months.

Any odds displayed were correct at the time of writing and are subject to fluctuation.

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