Australia create history! All 11 batters reach double figures in an innings during Brisbane Test vs ENG

Australia achieved a rare batting feat during the second Ashes 2025-26 Test series against England at the Gabba in Brisbane on Saturday 6 December. All eleven Australian batsmen reached double figures in the first innings, the first time the men in Baggy Green have achieved this feat in an Ashes match.

Australia scored a massive total of 511 runs in the first innings and took a 177-run lead. Mitchell Starc was the top scorer with 77 runs off 141 balls, including 13 boundaries. The home team never looked in trouble, with contributions from every batsman and no major collapse at any stage during the innings.

Australia make history as all eleven batsmen reach double figures in the innings

Every member of the Australian batting line-up reached double figures. This was the first time they had achieved this in an Ashes innings and only the third example in the entire Test history, the previous occasions coming against India in 1948 and Sri Lanka in 1992.

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England did this twice, in 1894 and 1928. Nearly a hundred years later, Australia has now added its name to that rare list. This feat is all the more remarkable as it is the first time any team has accomplished it in a day-night Test.

Australia’s dominant batting effort at the Gabba in Brisbane

Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Alex Carey and Mitchell Starc all scored half-centuries. Cameron Green, Travis Head and Josh Inglis also made valuable innings. The hosts added a fifty-six partnership.

Alex Carey kept England under pressure in the morning session, although Ben Stokes dismissed Michael Eagle early. After Carey’s dismissal, Starc frustrated England’s bowlers with a half-century. Starc, Scott Bolland and Brendan Doggett pushed Australia’s lead to a wide margin.

England worked tirelessly but struggled to break through. Brydon Carse took 4 for 152, while Stokes took 3 for 113. Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson and Will Jacks took one wicket each. Starc and Boland together put together a 75-run stand for the ninth wicket in 27.2 overs, the longest partnership of the series.

Australia posts a total of 500 plus without a single century

Australia recorded one of the highest Test scores without any player scoring a century. The Men in Yellow also reached 500 short of a hundred against the West Indies in 2009.

It was also the fourth highest Test total made without a single 100-run partnership. Only three teams, Australia in 1969, India in 1985 and England in 2006, have made more innings without making a century stand.

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