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Hello, welcome to the Test Match special Daily Ashes Quiz with me Andy Zaltzman, TMS statistician, delighted to be able to tell you that statistically.

Every time England have been 2-0 down in the Ashes recently, they've bounced back to win the third test. Every time in the last one previous series, and admittedly that wasn't in Australia, and after the first two tests have been pretty close. But let's cling to that numerical straw. Every week today during the current Ashes series, I have an Ashes-related question for you to have a guess out, see how close you can get.

The closer you are, the more runs you can award yourself.

Let's start with the answer from Friday's question, which I said after Australia had reached 300 in their first innings in Brisbane in just 58.3 over is the fastest they've ever reached 300 against England.

My question was in Men's Ashes cricket, what is the average number of overs taken by teams to reach 300 A this millennium and B, for comparison in the 1950s and 60s combined?

The answers, this millennium, the average Ashes 300, has been brought up in 86.3 overs, and in the 1950s and 60s, it was 121.2 overs.

That's a whole run per over difference, 3.48 per over, this millennium, 2.48 per over in the 1950s and 60s.

Cricket was quite a stodgy game back then,

so let's call the answers 86 and 121 for both parts. If you're within two either way, give itself a six, five either way, you've scored a four. If you're within 10 either way, you've scored two. Twenty either way, you can have a single, but if you're more than 40 out, well, you've driven on the upper to good length ball you probably should have left and you're out.

Today's question follows England making 17 tests in a row in

Australia without a win, 15 losses and two draws since Andrew Strauss's triumphant tour 15 years ago.

That's England's longest winless run in Men's Ashes T tests in Australia. The question is, what was

England's previous longest sequence of ashes tests in Australia without a win? And what is Australia's

longest sequence of ashes tests in England without a win? So what is England's previous

longest winless run in Ashes cricket in Australia before the current 17 match sequence

and what is Australia's longest run of matches in England without a win in the Ashes.

I'll have the answer and another question for you tomorrow.

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Until tomorrow, goodbye.

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