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Test Match Special

The Ashes: Where did England go wrong?

Test Match Special

BBC

Cricket, News, Sports News, Sports

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Phil Tufnell, Jason Gillespie and Dawid Malan join Mark Chapman to reflect on England losing the Ashes in Adelaide after the Third Test. Are England professional enough? Does the English game value county cricket enough? And did they pick the right spinner?

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Ellis, our podcast is over 500 episodes old.

0:10.0

But what have we learnt?

0:11.0

Ellis James and John Robbins.

0:13.0

I've learnt that when you're doing live radio, if somebody texts in in block capitals, it's very really a good sign.

0:18.0

We've had a confused text and it says, I want to listen to this rubbish.

0:22.0

I learned that if you lose to lose Sanders

0:24.1

in a board game

0:24.9

and don't mention her on the show,

0:26.3

you are going to get an unexpected call.

0:28.4

Oh, dear, oh dear.

0:31.1

Ellis James and John Robbins,

0:32.7

500 not out.

0:34.1

Lovely stuff.

0:35.5

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:38.2

You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

0:43.8

Hello, welcome to the TMS pod, where for the next hour, we'll talk England losing the ashes in record time after they went 3-0 down to Australia in Adelaide.

0:53.1

And joining us to do that,

0:54.8

former England spinner Phil Toffnell,

0:57.0

ex-Ozzie bowler Jason Gillespie and England batter David Miller.

1:00.4

Toughers, I joined Five Live nearly 16 years ago.

1:05.7

So how many of these do you think,

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