The Ashes: Crunch time ahead of the Christmas Test

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, News, Sports News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ben Stokes and Pat Cummins chat to TMS as we look ahead to England’s must-win Test in Adelaide. Plus, we get the thoughts of Jonathan Agnew, Stephan Shemilt and Bharat Sundaresan.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:36.4	The TMS podcast on BBC Sounds The TMS podcast
0:38.2	on BBC Sounds
0:40.1	Hello this is Eleanor Aldroyd from Adelaide
0:42.9	where it's now or never for England
0:44.8	to turn the Ashes series around
0:46.9	They simply have to win
0:48.9	During this podcast we'll be hearing from both captains
0:51.7	Pat Cummins and Ben Stokes
0:53.2	and assessing how England can get back into the series.
0:56.8	TMS at the Ashes.
1:01.8	So welcome to the Adelaide Oval on the eve of the third test match of this Ashes series.
1:07.4	It's a must-win game for England.
1:09.7	And it is the most beautiful day. It is still relatively
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