The Ashes Daily: England on the brink as Australia close in on series victory
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
England finished the day on 207-6 in pursuit of a Test-record 435 to win the third Test and keep the series alive.
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| 0:00.0 | One start, 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 | Testing 1-2-1-2 testing for sound. |
| 0:35.6 | I just want to get that out there. |
| 0:39.0 | Has there been an issue, Michael? |
| 0:41.4 | Hopefully there's no issue tonight. |
| 0:43.7 | There was a problem with your microphone yesterday, |
| 0:45.7 | but I read the comments below and they said, |
| 0:48.2 | thankfully we can't hear Michael Averton. |
| 0:50.3 | More of NASA is saying the better. |
| 0:52.0 | So hopefully they can hear you today. |
| 0:53.7 | Now this was a big day for you today. |
| 0:55.7 | You are the proud record holder as an England captain in two Ashes series of having lost the |
| 1:03.3 | ashes in 11 days. |
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