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Ahead of the 2025-26 Ashes Test cricket series, Max Rushden is joined by our panel of experts to discuss the greatest players ever to take part in the fierce rivalry between England and Australia.

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Here's our top 10 greatest Ashes cricketers of all time. How many do you agree with?

Click here for the full run down from 100 to one ► www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/nov/…

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The top 10 Ashes cricketers of all time, as selected by our panel. Who would be your pick for number one?

Here's the full list from 100-1 ► www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/nov/…

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Who would top your list?

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New video podcast from ‪‪@FootballWeeklyPodcast‬ – Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lucy Ward and Will Unwin as an imperious Manchester City thrash Liverpool.

Manchester City move to within four points of Arsenal at the top after a brilliant 3-0 win over Liverpool, featuring yet another outstanding Jeremy Doku performance. Not a bad way for Pep Guardiola to mark his 1,000th game in charge.

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A silly idea or a great addition to the sport?

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy launched their indoor golf league in Florida last night. McIlroy says they are “taking golf into the 21st century.” Woods goes even further, claiming the new concept “takes golf into another stratosphere”.

The game is simple, fast and it gives fans in the crowd the chance to see every shot – first on the massive golf simulator and then on a green that changes shape for every hole. Players smash their tee shots and irons into the huge screen before switching to the green for their short game. The six players completed 15 holes in just two hours, with the shot clock keeping them on their toes. The players also wore microphones so the 1,500 spectators could get closer to the action.

Will it last? Time will tell.

Watch more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5JHZ...

Photos: Mike Ehrmann/TGL/TGL Golf/Getty Images

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Oleksandr Usyk remains the shining king of boxing’s dark and chaotic world ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gIrG...

The great Ukrainian retained his three titles as the heavyweight champion of the world when he defeated Tyson Fury on points in a defining contest in the early hours of Sunday morning in Riyadh. Usyk boxed with clinical authority to win clearly by a score of 116-112 on all three cards. The pace was unrelenting and, ultimately, Usyk was just too fast, too smart and too skilled for Fury. His movement, accuracy and precision of punching were exemplary. Fury fought brilliantly at times but he could not sustain any real pitch of intensity. He began to flag at key moments of the bout as Usyk pulled away to secure his comprehensive victory. That was not how Fury saw it, shaking his head in disbelief and leaving the ring without saying a word.

Oleksandr Usyk-Tyson Fury II was close, uncontroversial and freighted with meaning ► www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/dec/23/oleksandr-us…

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The applause for Keely Hodgkinson was still reverberating around Media City on Tuesday when this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year began to stare intently at the previous winners carved into the trophy ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhhEv...

“I started to read the names and you realise it is history right in front of you: Bobby Moore, Mary Rand, Linford Christie, it goes all the way back to 1954,” she said.

But one detail, more than anything, stood out. The Olympic 800m champion’s victory was a record-breaking fourth in a row for a woman, following tennis player Emma Raducanu in 2021 and the footballers Beth Mead and Mary Earps in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

“It shows that women’s sport in the UK is in a good place, really strong in quite a lot of areas,” Hodgkinson said.

It is certainly a far cry from a desperate stretch between 2007 and 2020 when a male athlete not only lifted the award every year, but only five women – the swimmer Rebecca Adlington, the athletes Jessica Ennis-Hill, Jo Pavey and Dina Asher-Smith and the jockey Hollie Doyle – made the podium.

If anyone has a chance of flipping people’s perceptions of athletics it is Hodgkinson, who has the talent and personality to burrow even deeper into the mainstream.

Hodgkinson is also disarmingly honest about how life is not always rosy when you are trying to be the best in the world. “Everyone has moments of weakness,” she said. “I’m not going to pretend I don’t have any. Last week I was upset mid-session because it was so hard and I was so tired. You’ve got to really dig deep on those days. But I have learned to take it week by week and goal by goal.”

Do not be surprised if this run continues in 2025, especially with England defending their Women’s Euros title and the Women’s Rugby World Cup held on home soil.

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Our new documentary on ‪@theGuardian‬ follows the remarkable achievements of a sheep farmer who is one of the greatest endurance runners of all time. Joss Naylor: King of the Fells ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJyCw...

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Keely Hodgkinson has won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2024 award after winning 800m Olympic gold in Paris this summer ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhhEv...

Hodgkinson, who beat darts star Luke Littler and England cricketer Joe Root to win the annual prize, said: 'This year has been absolutely incredible for me. I’ve achieved everything I have set out to do.' The 22-year-old is the fourth woman in a row to win the award, following tennis player Emma Raducanu and two England footballers – Beth Mead and Mary Earps.

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