Daily Ashes Quiz: Wins in the first three tests
Test Match Special
BBC
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🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Every weekday during the 2025-26 Ashes, comedian and statistician Andy Zaltzman poses new a cricketing conundrum. It won’t be easy though. You might want to take it away, share in your group chats and challenge your friends. Andy will reveal the answer the following day.
Test Match Special has live commentary on BBC Sounds with a team including Jonathan Agnew, Simon Mann and Jim Maxwell. England's 2005 Ashes-winning captain Michael Vaughan, legendary Australia seamer Glenn McGrath and ex-England spinners Phil Tufnell and Alex Hartley will be part of the punditry team.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, welcome to the Test Match Special Daily Ashes Quiz with me, Andy Zaltzman, TMS, statistician. |
| 0:16.9 | Every weekday during the current Ashes series, I am posing an Ashes-related stats question for you to have a guess at. |
| 0:22.7 | For the rest of the week, you can hear it exclusively on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:26.4 | We'll start with Friday's answer. |
| 0:28.6 | For the third match in a row this series, |
| 0:30.3 | Australia scored at more than four runs per over in Adelaide. |
| 0:33.8 | England did so in all five tests in 2023, plus plus for what it's worth, in Perth. |
| 0:38.3 | The question was in all men's England v Australia tests to the end of the 20th century, 296 of them. |
| 0:44.3 | How many times did one of the teams score at four runs per over or faster? |
| 0:49.3 | And the answer was only six. |
| 0:52.3 | England did it twice, both in 1985, |
| 0:55.3 | at the Headingley and Edgebaston tests, |
| 0:58.0 | and Australia did it four times, |
| 0:59.5 | all of them in England, twice in 1921, |
| 1:01.8 | once in 1934, and once in 1997. |
| 1:05.7 | It's happened 35 more times since the start of this millennium, |
| 1:09.1 | including, as I said, Australia in all three |
| 1:11.2 | tests this series. |
| 1:12.8 | For our scoring system, if you got it bang on and said six, you can have six. |
| 1:16.3 | Anything else below 10, you can have four. |
| 1:18.6 | If you're below 20, you can have two. |
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