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The Ashes Daily: Root gets his century in Australia on absorbing first day at The Gabba

Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

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4.4598 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Nas and Ath are at The Gabba to dissect an enthralling first day of the 2nd Ashes Test between Australia and England.

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0:00.0

One last stop, 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, 24 years of pain in Australia.

0:27.6

Finally they're beaten at home by England.

0:30.6

Day one and the first night as well of the Gabletes finished here as the crowd pile out behind us

0:38.3

Michael Atherton they would have got their money's worth today yeah we're not getting

0:41.7

the abuse that we got in Perth what a day of cricket that was I mean an unbelievable

0:47.1

start with Mitchell start knocking back ducked and Pope for ducks again and all

0:52.5

those memories of Perth flooding back,

0:54.4

but then England's greatest run getter absolutely playing the innings of his life, really,

1:01.3

because everything is on the line here.

1:03.1

If you listen to Ben Stokes, he was asked that question at the toss by Isha Gu,

1:06.9

is this your most important game as England captain?

1:10.0

He says it, it is, it was, and never has he needed Joe Root Moore.

1:15.1

It's been a long time coming.

1:16.7

I mean, that reaction when he got the 100, I thought it was such a fantastic moment of theatre.

1:22.0

The whole ground stood to him, Aussies and English people,

1:25.2

because as you know, the Aussies are pretty fair-minded when it comes to

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