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Australian pacer Mitchell Starc recorded a memorable ten-wicket haul during the archetypal Ashes Test against England astatine Perth's Optus Stadium connected Saturday (November 22, 2025).
After taking a devastating 7/58 successful the archetypal innings, the best-ever bowling figures astatine the Optus Stadium, Starc started from wherever helium had left, dismissing Zak Crawley for different duck with a superb one-handed grab, showcasing his singular athleticism successful his mid 30s. He besides managed to get important wickets of stalwart Joe Root and English skipper Ben Stokes.
Starc is the archetypal Aussie pacer to instrumentality a ten-wicket haul successful Ashes Tests since 1990/91, erstwhile Craig McDermott produced figures of 11/157, which besides came astatine Perth, though astatine the WACA Stadium during the last Test of the series, which Aussies won 3-0. After Bruce Reid, helium is lone the 2nd left-arm pacer to person a ten-fer for Australia successful Ashes. Bruce, who played 27 Tests for Australia from 1985-92 and took 113 wickets, produced figures of 13/148 successful the 2nd Melbourne Test mode backmost successful 1990 during the aforesaid aforementioned bid successful which McDermott has picked his ten-fer.
The 35-year-old besides continued to support his dominance implicit 2 of England's biggest stars, Ben Stokes and Joe Root.
Starc has dismissed Stokes successful 11 times successful Tests, having conceded conscionable 191 runs successful 309 balls astatine an mean of 17.36. He besides got the wicket of Root for the 10th clip successful Test cricket, having fixed distant 349 runs successful 639 balls against Root astatine an mean of 34.90.
