Midnite’s Head of Trading Ben Cullen looks ahead to the 2025/26 Ashes series between Australia and England.
This is England’s best chance of winning an Ashes Series in Australia since their last victory Down Under 15 years ago and bettors seem to be in agreement as we build up to Friday’s early morning opener in Perth.
This is England’s first trip to Australia since the dawn of ‘BazBall’ era but will be well followed as usual by the Barmy Army and we make them a boosted 5/2 to regain the Urn on Australian soil.
As we head into the first Test in Perth, Australia’s bowling attack is somewhat depleted with captain Pat Cummins and Josh Hazelwood both ruled out of the first Test and there remains question marks around the opening batsmen.
This combined with no new injury concerns for England, has been enough for punters to be tempted by the 29/20 on offer for Ben Stokes’ side to win the opening Test and take a 1-0 lead.
One concern of note is Joe Root’s lack of a Test century in Australian conditions. While being well on his way to surpass Sachin Tendulkar as the leading Test runscorer in history, his technique has left question marks over him being able to finally score a ton Down Under.
However, since the last tour in Australia the Yorkshireman has scored almost 4,000 Test runs at 57.14 – Midnite have boosted him to 3/1 to be England’s leading batter in the first Test and 5/1 to be the top batter across the series.
With the ball in hand, England appear to have a fully fit seam attack for now with Jofra Archer and Mark Wood both likely to feature together in the first Test.
Archer is 5/2 to be England’s top series bowler across the series whilst a fully fit Mark Wood wreak havoc on Australian decks with wicket-keeper Jamie Smith already mentioning that he “nearly took his head off” in the nets – we have Wood at 7/1 to be England’s top bowler.
Midnite have a range of pre-match markets available on site as the hours countdown to what is sure to be an explosive first Test in Perth as well as a plethora of Series Outrights and Boosted Prices.
We’ll be offering In-Play betting throughout the series, which could be of favour to punters when they wake up each morning of the day-night Test at ‘The Gabbatoir’ with the last two sessions being at a more reasonable time for UK viewers.
