The Ashes live scores: Follow the latest from Day 2 of the Third Test from Adelaide Oval
England’s Bazballing batting line-up is struggling big-time on Day 2 of the Adelaide Test, with more DRS controversy impacting proceedings. Read through the news and action here!
Cricket: Day 1 in Adelaide had no shortage of talking points - so what will Day 2 bring?
Australia resume at 8-326, but it could have been a better position for England had a DRS error not gone against them to help Alex Carey notch a ton.
The tourists will be looking to wrap up two quick wickets and then bat for a long chunk of time - in forecast 37C heat - to put the pressure back on the home side.
Relive the day in our blog below!
Key events
18 Dec 2025 - 03:03 PM
STUMPS ENGLAND 8-213
18 Dec 2025 - 01:55 PM
BOLAND STRIKES AGAIN! CARSE GOES!
18 Dec 2025 - 01:46 PM
OUT! JACKS GOES!
18 Dec 2025 - 01:41 PM
Ponting on Smith’s divisive dismissal
18 Dec 2025 - 01:13 PM
SMITH IS GONE, AND THERE’S MORE SNICKO DRAMA!
18 Dec 2025 - 12:59 PM
Smith survives amid more snicko controversy!
18 Dec 2025 - 12:16 PM
TEA - ENGLAND 5-132
18 Dec 2025 - 12:03 PM
WICKET Brook c Carey b Green 45
18 Dec 2025 - 11:57 AM
Brook survives on review
18 Dec 2025 - 10:24 AM
CUMMINS GETS THE BIG FISH!
18 Dec 2025 - 09:34 AM
LUNCH - ENGLAND 3-59
18 Dec 2025 - 09:19 AM
Root survives by the skin of his teeth!
18 Dec 2025 - 09:12 AM
LYON’S ON FIRE!
18 Dec 2025 - 09:09 AM
The GOAT does it again!
18 Dec 2025 - 08:58 AM
WICKET Crawley ct Carey b Cummins 9
18 Dec 2025 - 08:09 AM
All Over
18 Dec 2025 - 07:40 AM
Starc OUT
18 Dec 2025 - 07:01 AM
DRS review reinstated
18th Over - ENG 4-73
Brook works a single of Lyon who changes the field to bring another man on the offside.
Stokes is forward defending confidently.
Drops short and punches a single to point off the back foot
17th Over - ENG 4-71
Stokes in with England not quite in miracle needing areas but close.
Defends the first.
Short ball and ducks under another successful Cummins over
CUMMINS GETS THE BIG FISH!
Root had looked busy pulling four and flicking two off the pad.
But then Cummins hones in on his line and length otuside off and Root fiddles an edge through to Carey and there’s no doubt over it this time.
12th time in Test cricket the Aussie captain has removed him in Test cricket
16th Over - ENG 3-64
Lyon continues after lunch.
Off the back foot and a misfield gives Brook one.
Root punches a single to mid-on.
Brook gets a single to point.
Another to mid-on. Justin Langer on comms is not happy with the field, believing it’s too easy for this pair to work the singles.
Brook gets another to finish. five from it
15th Over- ENG 3-59
Root leaves the first outside off.
Defends one that keeps a touch low.
Huge LBW shout but Root has smashed that onto the pad and wisley there’s no review.
Root can;’t beat point or gully and it’s a maiden
We’re back
Huge pressure on this pair to haul England out of the fire, but they’re the two best equipped to do it.
Cummins to bowl the first spell after lunch.
LUNCH - ENGLAND 3-59
What an absorbing session of Test cricket which Australia win thanks to those three overs of madness.
Australia added another 45 runs with the tail before England started brightly.
But then Pat Cummins produced a moment of magic before Nathan Lyon took two in over.
England avoided disaster with Joe Root surviving a borderline DRS call and with their two best batters at the crease, will look to take a big bite out of this deficit after lunch.
14th Over - ENG 3-59
Lyon to Brook in what should be the last over before lunch.
He’s a touch short, allowing Brook and Root to work singles.
FOUR. Too short again and Brook is driving off the back foot.
Defends the last and that’s lunch
13th Over - ENG 3-53
Root is walking down to Boland, who was all over him last over.
FOUR! Overpitched, and Root gets it off the pads for a boundary.
Half a shout as Boland jags one back in but it’s too high.
12th Over - 3-48
Brook gets off the mark with a single behind square.
Lyon is ripping them into Root here.
So he goes the reverse and beats backward point for four!
Goes again but square this time for a single
