The Ashes: Root’s resolve, Smith’s shocker & England’s bowling Headache

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, News, Sports News, Sports

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We hear from Joe Root who scored his 41st Test century and Australia fast bowler Scott Boland. Plus, there’s analysis from Simon Mann, Jonathan Agnew, Phil Tufnell, Glenn McGrath and Andy Zaltzman.

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0:43.6	Rick drives and gets it past the ball that's going up towards Longoff.
0:47.3	It won't be four, but it will be Joe Roots 100, the second of the series.
0:52.6	Smith steps away, then flogs this into the offside.
0:55.0	No! No!
0:58.0	He's caught a deep extra cover of a Maras-Labashane deliberate long-hop.
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