Glenn McGrath has backed Australia to secure a 5-0 clean sweep in the 2025-26 Ashes, predicting another dominant display on home soil when the series begins in November.
He finished the five-match series in England with a chart-topping 23 wickets, the highest for any bowler.
A team who had won one of their previous 17 Test matches not only enjoyed a massive uplift in results, the manner of their victories came about thanks to a rapid run rate not previously seen in Test cricket.
Head coach Brendon McCullum says New Zealand wickets will be better suited to England's aggressive brand of cricket, dubbed "Bazball", after his side were crushed in the final two Tests in Pakistan on turning tracks.
Test captain Ben Stokes indicated Tuesday he would be ready to make an England limited-overs comeback.
England next return to test action in July against the West Indies, after this year's Twenty20 World Cup.
"I don't give too much away as the series is going on but I'm always man enough to say we got beaten by the better team," Stokes told reporters.
India's five-wicket victory on a spiteful track in Ranchi was not really a cakewalk, thanks to England's never-say-die spin attack.
"On this occasion, their skill was better than ours," Stokes told reporters.
Glenn McGrath has backed Australia to secure a 5-0 clean sweep in the 2025-26 Ashes, predicting another dominant display on home soil when the series begins in November.
He finished the five-match series in England with a chart-topping 23 wickets, the highest for any bowler.
A team who had won one of their previous 17 Test matches not only enjoyed a massive uplift in results, the manner of their victories came about thanks to a rapid run rate not previously seen in Test cricket.
Head coach Brendon McCullum says New Zealand wickets will be better suited to England's aggressive brand of cricket, dubbed "Bazball", after his side were crushed in the final two Tests in Pakistan on turning tracks.
Test captain Ben Stokes indicated Tuesday he would be ready to make an England limited-overs comeback.
England next return to test action in July against the West Indies, after this year's Twenty20 World Cup.
"I don't give too much away as the series is going on but I'm always man enough to say we got beaten by the better team," Stokes told reporters.
India's five-wicket victory on a spiteful track in Ranchi was not really a cakewalk, thanks to England's never-say-die spin attack.
"On this occasion, their skill was better than ours," Stokes told reporters.
"This England team are hell bent on doing things their way, and 'saving test cricket'. They are giving test cricket a shot in the arm because they are so exciting," Michael Vaughan wrote in Britain's Daily Telegraph.
