The Ashes: Wasteful England hand Australia the initiative at the Gabba
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Reaction to a second day in Brisbane that saw England miss out on putting heat on the hosts
Michael Vaughan, Glenn McGrath and Jonathan Agnew join Simon Mann to discuss a frustrating day for England in Brisbane. Plus, we hear from Joe Root after this first Ashes century in Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:09.3 | Twice a week, Wayne Rooney, Kayeard and me, Kelly Somers, |
| 0:12.4 | break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond. |
| 0:15.5 | Coming to the Premier League, he's shown one called Play, he isn't. |
| 0:18.2 | He's been probably the sound of the season. |
| 0:19.6 | Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. |
| 0:23.7 | I had two seasons when I played as the number nine and scored 34 goals in both the seasons. |
| 0:28.1 | But I was bored. |
| 0:30.3 | The Wayne Rooney Show. |
| 0:31.5 | It's what everybody's talking about. |
| 0:33.8 | Watch an eye player, listen on sounds. |
| 0:37.5 | You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live. |
| 0:43.4 | It's a bowling. |
| 0:45.1 | That's gone through first step. |
| 0:46.7 | That's four. |
| 0:47.5 | That might have been half a chance as well. |
| 0:50.1 | Off the bat of Kerry, root away to his right hand side. |
| 0:52.5 | It flashed away. |
| 0:54.1 | Is that another one? |
| 0:55.2 | Was that catchable? |
| 0:55.9 | I don't think got any fingers on it. It was a difficult one to his right hand side. Oh, yeah, he did get a hand on it. He was diving to his right route. He did touch it. It went between the week. He's a bit wide, isn't he? Well, after two days of this test match, Australia are in control. |
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