The Ashes Daily: England "staring down the barrel" after Head hundred puts Aussies in command
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Travis Head hit an unbeaten 142 as Australia finished the day on 271-4 in their second innings, leading England by 356 runs.
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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! 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. |
| 0:31.6 | Building a statue, they'll cry, just over our left shoulder, you know. |
| 0:35.6 | Bill me, who we're building a statue? Not a statue of you, but just over our left shoulder, you know. Bill, me, who we're building a statue. |
| 0:38.2 | Not a statue of you, but just over our left shoulder, |
| 0:40.6 | the entrance to this ground, |
| 0:42.3 | there's a statue of Clem Hill, |
| 0:43.8 | who is a great South Australian left-hander |
| 0:46.0 | of many, many years ago. |
| 0:48.2 | Well, another South Australian left-hander |
| 0:50.4 | has just made his fourth hundred |
| 0:52.7 | in consecutive tests on his home ground. |
| 0:55.8 | What a day for Travis Head. |
| 0:57.1 | What a game it's been for South Australians with Alex Carey's 100 in the first |
| 1:01.2 | innings. |
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