The Ashes Daily: England battle to keep Ashes alive despite Carey century - and Snicko controversy - on day one in Adelaide
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One star 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, he gets his far to landing. |
| 0:17.0 | England's captain, Ben Stokes, while he is there. England have hope. |
| 0:21.8 | Put the beer away, put the champagne on ice, 24 years of pain in Australia. |
| 0:28.2 | Finally they're beaten at home by England. |
| 0:31.6 | Well the end of day one, a very hot day in Adelaide and an action-packed day again Michael Atherton 326 for eight |
| 0:40.5 | Australia having won the toss and batted how would you sum up that day I think England would be pretty |
| 0:46.3 | happy getting eight wickets as you say it was a baking hot day about 35 degrees quite a dry flat pitch |
| 0:53.8 | that will Jats got one or two balls to spin already. |
| 0:58.3 | But all the numbers suggest that Australia in day matches here when they bat first since 2000, |
| 1:04.6 | they've only once been bowled out below 400. |
| 1:07.7 | So I think if you can take eight wickets, you're pretty satisfied with the outcome, |
| 1:11.7 | but I think the outcome flattered England's bowling a bit at times, which was good in parts, |
| 1:16.8 | Joffra Archer, especially, not so good in other parts, an important drop early on when Usman |
| 1:23.3 | Coager had five as well, when Australia were wobbling at 50 for two. So as always in a day, |
| 1:29.0 | as you know, you'll look back and think, well, that's okay, but it could have been better. |
| 1:33.3 | I mean, the action and the news started before a ball went down. Steve Smith, in the net's just |
| 1:39.4 | near where we are right now, had a net, wasn't fit, you know, d dizziness coager gets his opportunity it's an incredible |
| 1:46.6 | story because two games ago or two days ago he looked like his test career was done absolutely |
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