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The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 3: In truth, it has been a long time coming in Ashes cricket, but in the Year of Our Lord 2026, Steve Smith took us back in time to when him doing dances and pinching singles and smacking the odd shot through cover was the only constant in a world of madness. The sun shone, Stokes toiled, Jacks flinched, and Potts had a day where nothing went right.
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 2: It was a day for batting, in both camps, as the SCG provided some challenges but also some opportunities. First it was Joe Root's turn, scripting another flourish near the end of his Australian tale, then it was Travis Head with a far more boisterous performance in keeping with his series. Who's on top? It's hard to make out among the tangle of limbs.
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 1: For a moment it looked like we would have another crazy fast Test innings, but then things changed. Joe Root and Harry Brook have promised and then broken that promise to bat together for a long time this series, and finally delivered before the inevitable Sydney rain.
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 5th Test, Sydney Day 0: It's been a busy couple of days in the SCG press conference room with Usman Khawaja pulling the pin and Steve Smith confirming that his own show will go on. He wouldn't, however, reveal the starting XI for the SCG Test as the (currently) green pitch still leaves questions for them to answer. Bharat Sundaresan joins Adam, for a conversation centred around the retiring opener's broader comments.
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Season 19, Episode 20: On this day, three decades ago. New Year's Day. Michael Bevan, Roger Harper... you know it. To recognise this cherished moment in Australian cricket's limited-overs history, here's an interview we did with Australia's ice man from a couple of years ago, when he was our guest at a Sydney live show. Honest, funny and thorough - what a gem.
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Season 19, Episode 19: Happy New Year! Time for another Final Word tradition, the best and worst in cricket of 2025. This past year was one with a lot of good in it, as well as one where some trends that could define the future became much more clear.
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Season 19, Episode 18: With another longer than expected pause between Tests, thoughts turn to Sydney and the end of the series. But there is no sign yet of a farewell lap from Usman Khawaja. Will he try to play on, and dare selectors to drop him? Or is he just being discreet until the moment comes? Also this week, New Zealand's cricket boss quits after a power struggle, Brett Lee joins the Hall of Fame, the Big Bash is working as intended, and key England administrator Hugh Morris has died.
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It's Story Time, our weekly walk through cricket history. This week, we stumble by many coincidences onto the story of Australian Test cricket's WWII commando, and his connection to a Japanese POW camp, in a poignant week for Geoff to link these things together. If you're interested, look up the poetry of Chris Wallace-Crabbe.
Your Nerd Pledge numbers this week:
5.48 - Geoff Price
3.39 - Lee Geldard
7.06 - Chris Byrne
1.34 - Amelia Vine
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 3 wrap: The whole country is fixated on one thing: 22 yards of grass in the middle of the MCG, and how it came to influence an Ashes series. Head curator Matt Page had to turn out for a post-match press conference with the head of the MCC, Stuart Fox, such was the need for damage control. Was it really the pitch's fault? And either way, what does this mean for the future prospects of Test cricket? Adam and Geoff get together after a night off to chew through it all.
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The Ashes Daily 2025, 4th Test, Melbourne Day 2: Once again, we are left to survey a field of smoking wreckage and ask, what the hell was that? Another two-day Test, another bowler-fest, and a closing flurry of some of the most insane attempts at shot-making you will ever see in the long form of the game. How do we make sense of that? But among the chaos, history was made.
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