England reject chance for pink-ball tune-up before second Ashes Test
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Rory Dollard Mon, 24 November 2025 at 10:44 am UTC·3 min read England have resisted calls to send senior players for a pink-ball practice match ahead of the second Ashes Test, passing up the chance to spend more time in the middle. A slipshod two-day defeat in the series opener at Perth left an 11-day gap in the tourists' schedule before the day/night Test in Brisbane and opened up the option of using next weekend's England Lions fixture in Canberra as a competitive tune-up for the first team.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Former captain Michael Vaughan said it would be "amateurish" not to send key men to the capital to experience a floodlit fixture...