Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc has completed his 100th wicket in the Ashes. Starkey took his first wicket against England in the first innings of the opening match of the 2025-26 Ashes series at the Perth Stadium.

With this, Starke also completed 100 wickets in the Ashes series. Starke achieved this feat in 43 innings of 23 matches. Mitchell Starc has overtaken former West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose for most wickets in Test history, who took 405 wickets in 98 matches of his Test career.

In this match being played in Perth, England won the toss and decided to bat first. The team was all out for 172 runs in 32.5 overs. England suffered a big blow when Jack Crowley (0) was out on the sixth ball of the match. At that time the team had not even opened its account.

Then Ollie Pope tried to revive the innings by adding 33 runs for the second wicket with Ben Duckett, but Duckett was out after scoring 21 runs.

The team had lost three wickets for 39 runs. From then on, Ollie Pope along with Harry Brook added 55 runs in 67 balls for the fourth wicket and took the team closer to the century. Ollie Pope scored 46 runs facing 58 balls in this innings.

Jamie Smythe added 45 runs in 30 balls for the sixth wicket with Brook. Brooke contributed 52 runs in the innings, hitting one six and five fours. For Australia, Mitchell Starc took 7 wickets for 58 runs, while Brendan Doggett and Cameron Green took 1 wicket each.