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Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

The Ashes Daily: A "bewildering" Boxing Day at the MCG

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

Sky Sports

News, Cricket, Sports News, Sports

4.4598 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Nas and Ath are at the MCG to review the action from a "bizarre" 1st day of the 4th Ashes Test between Australia and England in Melbourne.a

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0:00.0

One star, that is from Crawley.

0:02.0

Chris Wokes nails it for four.

0:05.0

The ashes alive and test cricket alive.

0:08.0

Ice in his veins, Pat Cummins, has led his team to a famous victory.

0:13.0

Yeah, go!

0:14.0

He gets his far to landing.

0:17.0

England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there. England have hope.

0:21.6

Put the beer away, put the champagne on ice,

0:24.6

24 years of pain in Australia.

0:27.6

Finally they're beaten at home by England.

0:30.6

Welcome to the Sky Sports Cricket podcast.

0:33.6

A bit of news first.

0:34.6

Apologies if I'm sniffing and spluttering and coughing and

0:38.4

sneezing. I've got a severe case of the man flu. So I've been watching every single ball in bed

0:45.0

today. Michael has been our man. You're not hung over after Christmas Day? Not at all. I am so ill.

0:50.2

Unless a man like you just would not have turned up but you did turn up with 94,100

0:56.0

and others at this ground a record-breaking crowd they'll leave having watched a lot of

1:02.2

incredible cricket there explain well they've completely bewildered and bemused

1:07.0

because that's that's how I think most of us are how do you explain that a day in which 20 wickets fell

1:13.3

I think I was listening to one of the stats guys on the radio I think it's only the ninth time in test

1:18.8

history that the third innings of a game has started on the first day and obviously a bizarre end

1:24.6

with Scott Boland coming in on a king pair and then edging the final ball of the day.

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