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Ashes 2025/26: Australia vs England | 3rd Test | Adelaide | December 17-21 | Match Discussion

Which side will win the 3rd Ashes Test at Adelaide?

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Stokes needs to start scoring instead of just blocking . With wickets running out this approach won’t help the team . :kp
 
Why does Archer look like he is about to cry after bowling a delivery or facing a delivery.

He really doesn't want to be out there....
 
India has won two test series in Australia (2018 & 2021), South Africa has won three test series in Australia (2009, 2012-13 & 2016). England's and Pakistan's never ending struggles in Australia only reinforces that what India and South Africa have achieved in Australia is extra ordinary
 
England are an average home track bully team who excel against low ranked sides.

They have lost last 13 out of 15 test matches in Australia, don't know why they even tour Australia for the Ashes, better to surrender the trophy without playing.

Waste of time for fans around the world.

England chances also reduce with Australia inventing new cheating techniques, Carey was clearly out on 74, Australia should have been bowled out under 280. The Cheaters got 100 runs extra due to the stupid snickometer.
 
Savak said:
India has won two test series in Australia (2018 & 2021), South Africa has won three test series in Australia (2009, 2012-13 & 2016). England's and Pakistan's never ending struggles in Australia only reinforces that what India and South Africa have achieved in Australia is extra ordinary
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Last 10 years

NZ/England/Pakistan/Srilanka/West indies in Australia


32 matches 27 losses 1 win (by West Indies) 4 draws


India/SA

19 matches 7 (5 India, 2 SA ) wins 8 losses (5 INdia, 3 SA) 4 draws
 
Only benefit to this from my POV is it makes Pakistan's struggles in Aus look a bit better.

England prepared for this moment for years and have been completely spineless.

Bazball started with Stokes charging down the pitch swinging hard in the nets, and unless a miracle happens will end with Stokes scratching and tuk tucking :azhar
 
nish_mate said:
What happened to fearless cricket and this how we play messers McCullum & Stokes?

One thought you were here to entertain and revolutionise test cricket ....

Ho gaayi hawa phus hoon...
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Very disappointed bro

I was really looking forward to this series.

Now the peak test matches over the Xmas break are likely dead rubbers.

Not just baz and stokes but rob key will be a goner too. There are a few people ready to stick the knife into him on the way down.
 
England have lost their nerve and surrendered. The Aussies naturally aren’t ever going to make it easy, but the first test was given to England on a plate and they royally messed up. As I said at the time, I 100% blame archer for that loss. The opening bowler sets the tone, and that joker came in bowling at 133k in that second innings.
 
TheSultan said:
England have lost their nerve and surrendered. The Aussies naturally aren’t ever going to make it easy, but the first test was given to England on a plate and they royally messed up. As I said at the time, I 100% blame archer for that loss. The opening bowler sets the tone, and that joker came in bowling at 133k in that second innings.
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But according to delusional posters like you, England were well prepared to win the Ashes. What happened to your claims now ? :klopp :kp
 
ENG 158 behind with 2 wickets in hand . Still a good deck for batting & it is likely that AUS would give them a target of over 450 . Incidentally , did notice 2 deliveries from Lyon which disturbed the surface on pitching .
Forecast for day 3 is cloudy & temp below 30 so should give some respite to the English bowlers .
Btw , day 5 , few showers predicted during first 3 hours of play . Anyone fancies a draw due to this ?
 
TheSultan said:
England have lost their nerve and surrendered. The Aussies naturally aren’t ever going to make it easy, but the first test was given to England on a plate and they royally messed up. As I said at the time, I 100% blame archer for that loss. The opening bowler sets the tone, and that joker came in bowling at 133k in that second innings.
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He eventually got the wickets, but his opening over was embarrassing today. 134 or something and gentle dollies served up.
 
I might take a punt and wake up at 5 tomorrow morning to see if Stokes can actually pull off something insane. If not, it will still be good to watch the final surrender of Bazball. A truly watershed moment.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
Very disappointed bro

I was really looking forward to this series.

Now the peak test matches over the Xmas break are likely dead rubbers.

Not just baz and stokes but rob key will be a goner too. There are a few people ready to stick the knife into him on the way down.
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Baz and Rob need to go for sure, they have kept the same ttfs and made this batting unit and old boys club

Stokes will die at his own hill or might just jump before pushed straight after 5th tests

ECB ftbs and doctored pitches coming back to haunt them
 
Devadwal said:
But according to delusional posters like you, England were well prepared to win the Ashes. What happened to your claims now ? :klopp :kp
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They were well prepared for failure considering how they failed to beat a GG-led India in their own backyard.

Mighty, mighty England have the talent or the cajones to win out here
 
England's Ashes hopes vanishing after batters fold again

Third Ashes Test, Adelaide Oval (day two of five)

Australia 371: Carey 106, Khawaja 82; Archer 5-53

England 213-8: Stokes 45*, Brook 45; Cummins 3-54

England trail by 158 runs

England's Ashes hopes are vanishing after they were overwhelmed by Australia amid more Snicko controversy on the second day of the third Test.

In temperatures that touched 41 degrees at the Adelaide Oval, England crumbled to 213-8 in blameless batting conditions. They are 158 runs adrift of Australia.

This was not a collapse caused by Bazballing batting, rather a fold in the face of relentless Australia bowling.

Only Ollie Pope, whose Test career is now hanging by a thread, and Jamie Smith were dismissed playing attacking shots – and Smith was at the centre of the Snicko confusion.

A day after Australia's Alex Carey was reprieved by a Snicko error, Smith first survived then was given out on the evidence of the technology, with players on both sides apparently losing faith in the decision review system (DRS).

But the debate surrounding DRS cannot mask the truth that England have wilted in the Ashes cauldron and could lose this series in as few as 10 days of cricket.

After Australia pushed on to 371 all out – the outstanding Jofra Archer with 5-53 – England's reply was in tatters at 42-3 when the tourists lost three wickets for five runs in 15 balls.

Harry Brook reined in his attacking instincts with 45 from 63 balls, while captain Ben Stokes dug a trench with a painstaking 45 not out from 151 deliveries. He found some late support in a stand of 45 with Archer, who is 30 not out.

But England were powerless to withstand the Australian excellence. The returning Pat Cummins claimed 3-54, while Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon took two wickets apiece.

At some point over the weekend, Cummins looks likely to once again become an Ashes-winning captain and the bloodletting of this England regime will begin.

Snicko cannot mask gulf in class

At 2-0 down after two matches, this was the defining day for England. Though they began poorly, leaking 45 runs in 8.2 overs, Australia's total was far from insurmountable.

England had the opportunity to bat themselves back into the series. Instead, it was only Stokes' defiance that prevented them from bowling twice in the day.

While the Snicko controversy is unsatisfactory for a series of this magnitude, it pales in comparison to the substandard nature of England's performance.

Smith first survived when the technology adjudged a Cummins bouncer that ended at first slip came off his helmet, rather than his glove. An Australian voice on the field was heard to say "Snicko should be sacked".

In the next Cummins over, an aggrieved Smith was given caught behind attempting a wild pull shot. BBG Sports, the operators of Snicko, confirmed to the BBC it believed both decisions to be correct.

It matters little. Barring something extraordinary, Australia will bat England out of this match on their way to yet another Ashes series win in this country.

Stokes' empire crumbles around him

If this really is the end of the Bazball era as we know it, it is symbolic that captain Stokes was in the middle for so much of the day, watching his team crumble around him.

Perhaps the game was up even before Stokes arrived. If Zak Crawley and Ben Duckett were each undone by superb deliveries from Cummins and Lyon respectively, Pope's flick at Lyon was foolish and fatal.

Pope has not repaid the faith shown in him as England's number three. Without a score in the second innings, his place for the fourth Test in Melbourne will be in huge doubt.

Joe Root survived a catch falling short of wicketkeeper Carey before he edged long-term nemesis Cummins for 19, leaving Brook and Stokes to battle through the afternoon heat.

Bar a drive off Boland for six, Brook played sensibly until he edged Cameron Green's second ball. Stokes took a horrible blow to the head off Mitchell Starc, yet was not shaken from his watchful vigil.

Cramping after almost four hours at the crease, he at least had a willing ally in Archer – two of few England players coming through this series with their reputations intact.

Awesome Australia show their class

After suggestions Australia had a team past its best, or the results of the first two Tests were borne of England errors, this was confirmation the home side are simply far superior.

Despite the stifling heat, the Australia bowling was collectively brilliant, never giving England any respite. Whereas Archer often carried the visitors' attack single-handedly, Australia always had another bowler ready to examine English technique, defence and spirit.

Captain Cummins had not bowled a ball since July because of a back injury, yet was magnificent. He found movement to take the edges of Crawley and Root, then bounced out the discomforted Smith.

Lyon was overlooked for the second Test in Brisbane, but this ground is his home from home. The threat he carried exposed England's lack of a frontline spinner. Pope's gift was Lyon's 564th Test wicket, taking the off-spinner past Australian great Glenn McGrath to sixth on the all-time list.

Starc continued his outstanding series by making 54 with the bat and followed up by bowling with electric pace. An average of 90.7mph is the fastest day of his Ashes career.

Boland nagged away, having Will Jacks athletically caught by Carey, once again up to the stumps. Boland then found a gap in Brydon Carse's defence to hit the stumps. Even Green, the bit-part bowler, took the crucial wicket of Brook.

BBC
 
England have demonstrated what many of us have thought for the last few years...flat track bullies who excel against poor opposition and wilt when faced with any sort of a challenge.

The batters inability to play the situation (Root aside) is extraordinary.
The bowlers though quick, lack intelligence and guile.
The spinner...well, they don't have one.

Bazball was always a complete joke (rightly derided by Australians and Indians).
It is difficult to emphasise how important an Ashes series is to the ECB, English cricket fans etc -- way more important than any world cup. or indeed any other opposition

It looks, barring a miracle, that it will be over before Christmas
 
Stokes has been on the field for 2 hot scorching days barring 17 overs & has bowled 19 overs ... It would be a miracle if he can perform exceptinally in next 3 days !!!
 
Australia are looking good for 3-0.

England probably have to get a new Test team after this series. Bazball honeymoon is over.
 
gibsyhesperis said:
England have demonstrated what many of us have thought for the last few years...flat track bullies who excel against poor opposition and wilt when faced with any sort of a challenge.

The batters inability to play the situation (Root aside) is extraordinary.
The bowlers though quick, lack intelligence and guile.
The spinner...well, they don't have one.

Bazball was always a complete joke (rightly derided by Australians and Indians).
It is difficult to emphasise how important an Ashes series is to the ECB, English cricket fans etc -- way more important than any world cup. or indeed any other opposition

It looks, barring a miracle, that it will be over before Christmas
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Yes.

That was evident in the last 2 WTCs. England were poor despite the Bazball philosophy.

Bazball is something you would expect tail-enders to do. They have to slog because they don't have proper defences. Bazball is not a sustainable long-term strategy.
 
Starc has been the weakest link among the trio. Weak comparatively. Still a champion bowler. Even without their very best bowlers they are ahead. Also with two of their champion bowlers return to fold they are ahead in this test as well. Archer's batting is covering their inadequacies.
 
No.3 is a critical spot when you tour Australia. They bet on a wrong horse. Ollie pope is a terrible no.3. His weaknesses are unlimited.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
he is a titan of a player. He is pretty much half their team.
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I am sorry to say but apart from Stokes, Archer & Root, the rest of the players are mentally week. I do think Stokes should have maybe stuck to some of our planning the last couple of years and kept the danda hidden before the series, but these toothless players deserve the public humiliation & their captain deserves better than this, look first series in Australia but he has given them so much confidence that I felt they would handle the pressure better and these are the results…..pathetic.
 
What about the greatest wicket keeper batsman talent Jamie Smith and the face of Bazball, Harry Brooks who averages 55+ with bat? Haha, they all are overrated. Nothing worth writing. I thought Harry Brooks will get a big one here in Adelaide as the pitch was relatively flat but he failed too.
 
England have to pull off a massive 4rth innings chase else the Ashes is lost. Sad to see such spineless poms.
 
"Mate, don't complain about the field placings when you bowl s**t" - Stokes to Archer the other day, apparently
 
Ab Fan said:
What about the greatest wicket keeper batsman talent Jamie Smith and the face of Bazball, Harry Brooks who averages 55+ with bat? Haha, they all are overrated. Nothing worth writing. I thought Harry Brooks will get a big one here in Adelaide as the pitch was relatively flat but he failed too.
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Brooks is decent but he is a Massive overhyped player, he needs a flat pitch like Multan Highway to score runs

I clearly remember how Pakistani fans, including @RedwoodOriginal and @DeadlyVenom hyped him too much just because he withdrew from the IPL.
:klopp :kp
 
Human786 said:
He will retire soon . They have played stupid cricket under guise of entertainment for far too long .
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It is not stupid cricket if you see where they come from. Ben Duckett ahs said in the interview his reverse sweep is a safer shot than his defense. He leaves only 5 or 6% of the deliveries. He literally plays everything. Leaving and defending is not exactly a safe shot for him. He probaby would not have done this well if he had stuck to purely defending
 
nish_mate said:
Too less too late. For a strong willed and mercurial person, Stokes's been too soft on his team
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Stokes can only be blamed so much..Ultimately the players need to take responsibility for looking completely listless. No English batsmen besides Root even averages over 40 in this series.
 
Devadwal said:
Brooks is decent but he is a Massive overhyped player, he needs a flat pitch like Multan Highway to score runs

I clearly remember how Pakistani fans, including @RedwoodOriginal and @DeadlyVenom hyped him too much just because he withdrew from the IPL.
:klopp :kp
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This was enough for me.

His average can drop to 0 but he will be a hero in my eyes just for the meltdown he caused in Indians
 
Devadwal said:
Brooks is decent but he is a Massive overhyped player, he needs a flat pitch like Multan Highway to score runs

I clearly remember how Pakistani fans, including @RedwoodOriginal and @DeadlyVenom hyped him too much just because he withdrew from the IPL.
:klopp :kp
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His name is Harry Brook, and he averages 55 in Test cricket with a SR of 87 and has 10 centuries to his name. For context, not a single player in India's Test team even averages 50, so I'm not sure why you are running your mouth and downplaying the talent of another player when you are clearly too jealous, too biased and too uninformed to even know what you are talking about.
 
RedwoodOriginal said:
His name is Harry Brook, and he averages 55 in Test cricket with a SR of 87 and has 10 centuries to his name. For context, not a single player in India's Test team even averages 50, so I'm not sure why you are running your mouth and downplaying the talent of another player when you are clearly too jealous, too biased and too uninformed to even know what you are even talking about.
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He can Scored useless runs on flats roads but didn't even win a single series against India , Australia so far at home or away in any formats.

:klopp :kp
 
Mg one statement is enough to trigger wannabe supporter of Temu Tendulkar and FTB Brooks. I'm loving this meltdown :klopp :kp
 
Crawley and Pope are two of the worst top order batsmen I’ve ever seen at this level (of a major intl side).

All this talk about pope has one innings to save his career - this is the storyline of every series Pope is involved in. He gets one good score and then goes back to doing nothing.

:kp
 
You know things are bad when Jofra Archer is one of your highest averaging batsmen on the tour

Playing a good innings here though..
 
ball sharply decked back. Stokes was playing through the line on a flat wicket all morning against other bowlers. Starc foudn movement he got into trouble.
 
jnaveen1980 said:
This is such a slow surface. They literally play everything off the backfoot even if it is slightly short.
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They play pink ball test vs India at Adelaide and here they have given a traditional SC style pitch to England. I remember back in 2000s, we enjoyed playing at Adelaide and Sydney both.

Last year, Adelaide became pink ball test and Sydney became a very seamer friendly wicket suited for 4 pace/ seam + 1 spin combo rather than 3+ 2.
 
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