Starc is the leading wicket-taker in the 2025-26 Ashes series with 26 wickets at an average of 17.42
England's Mitchell problem goes back a generation.
It began with Mitchell Johnson's ferocity in 2013, when Peggy Mitchell still ran Albert Square, and has continued through the left-arm wizardry of Mitchell Starc.
In the 2025-26 Ashes series, the seventh of his career, Starc has taken 26 wickets - stepping up in the absence of pace colleagues often more vaunted.
Four more scalps in the fifth Test in Sydney and his haul will be the best by anyone in an Ashes series since Johnson 12 years ago.
