Overview
- Rugby league: Australia clinched the Ashes 2-0 with a 14-4 second-Test win in Liverpool, secured by second-half tries from Cameron Munster and Hudson Young after a 4-4 halftime stalemate.
- Nathan Cleary’s penalties and tactical kicking, including a pivotal 40-20, underpinned the Kangaroos’ control, with an early melee leading to sin-bins for Tino Fa’asuamaleaui and Dom Young and a later yellow for Reece Walsh.
- England now head to the third Ashes Test at Headingley on Nov. 8 needing a win to avoid a series whitewash, with the series already decided.
- Rugby union: England beat Australia 25-7 at Twickenham as Henry Pollock scored a key try off the bench before late scores from Alex Mitchell and Luke Cowan-Dickie, adding to Ben Earl’s opener after Harry Potter’s length-of-the-field intercept.
- Five British & Irish Lions entered around the 51st minute to swing the union Test, with England near full strength under a Premiership release deal as Australia missed several Europe-based players outside the official window; England face Fiji next, Australia play Italy.