The Ashes Daily: England's Ashes hopes hanging by a thread after Australia's bowlers deliver masterclass.
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One star that is from Crawley. |
| 0:02.0 | Chris Wolkes 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 | Go and he gets his falling to landing. |
| 0:17.0 | England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there. England have hope. |
| 0:21.9 | 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. |
| 0:31.8 | Well, end of day two here in Adelaide. |
| 0:34.2 | It has been a stifling hot day, 40 degrees plus and the crowd wearily take |
| 0:39.9 | themselves back over the bridge and into the city. Michael, we were there 24 hours ago and we said |
| 0:46.4 | today and maybe tomorrow was a day for England's top eight to deliver. They've certainly not done |
| 0:52.9 | that on what is still a very good Adelaide pitch. |
| 0:56.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:57.0 | First of all, it was an outstanding bowling performance from Australia today. |
| 1:01.0 | I know we'll get into the nitty-gritty of that. |
| 1:04.0 | But England's top order, as you say, crumbled again, either side of lunch. They lost three quick wickets |
| 1:12.8 | then route just after lunch. And then it was left to Stokes really to be at his defiant best, |
| 1:19.3 | but it, you know, it was defiant and defensive as he had to be more than four hours of sweat and |
| 1:24.9 | toil. And, you know, we've all been there. I was looking at him for that last drinks break tonight. |
| 1:31.1 | And he's on one knee, taking water on board, |
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