Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Jofra Archer reacts during his opening spell.
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Slowly during the long break separating the second and third Test matches of this Ashes Test series, the tension has just built and built, and it does feel like there is some sort of tipping point arriving. Not for the Australian team, with the hosts having taken a clinical 2-0 series lead and now getting three chances to avoid a loss and retain the Ashes once again – although winning at home will always be the standard the Baggy Greens have for themselves.
No, it’s in the England camp, where the sentiment very much seems to be that either it all goes right from here, or it all goes wrong. Already humiliated with two heavy losses, losing again is simply not an option. Are England interested in turning up to show some fight in this series? The answer is probably yes, but the challenge laid down by the fans at home is to prove that on the field, rather in the press conference rooms.
Australia vs England 3rd Test Playing XI
The hosts welcome back their captain – just if England were interested in a little more bad news. A player of Cummins’ quality returning takes Australia to greater heights, but this is still a team with some weaknesses. Nathan Lyon also comes back in as well, as a very familiar bowling unit takes shape – but a big miss at the last-minute, as Steven Smith misses out.
For England, Josh Tongue comes in for Gus Atkinson, who hasn’t quite found his rhythm.
AUS Playing XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Inglis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
ENG Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue
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No, it’s in the England camp, where the sentiment very much seems to be that either it all goes right from here, or it all goes wrong. Already humiliated with two heavy losses, losing again is simply not an option. Are England interested in turning up to show some fight in this series? The answer is probably yes, but the challenge laid down by the fans at home is to prove that on the field, rather in the press conference rooms.
Australia vs England 3rd Test Playing XI
The hosts welcome back their captain – just if England were interested in a little more bad news. A player of Cummins’ quality returning takes Australia to greater heights, but this is still a team with some weaknesses. Nathan Lyon also comes back in as well, as a very familiar bowling unit takes shape – but a big miss at the last-minute, as Steven Smith misses out.
For England, Josh Tongue comes in for Gus Atkinson, who hasn’t quite found his rhythm.
AUS Playing XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Inglis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
ENG Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue
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Dec 17, 2025 6:04:21 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Maiden for Josh Tongue to start
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Good little spell from England thanks to those wickets, means they are the happier team at the end of the first hour. Can they make it count after the drinks break?
Dec 17, 2025 5:51:08 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: GONE! WHAT A CATCH FROM CRAWLEY TO DISMISS HEAD
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: ANOTHER WICKET! Two in two overs and England are alive! Carse strikes, he’s not been great but that won’t matter now, he has dismissed Travis Head. Outside off, Head drives but it’s somewhat sliced. Very low to Crawley’s left at short cover point, and he does so well to stick out a hand and somehow just make it stick.
That’s a sensational piece of fielding. The kind of thing England needed going their way early this morning.
Dec 17, 2025 5:44:58 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: WICKET! Jofra Archer removes Weatherald with a bounce
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Archer does the trick! Fast, sharp, at his front shoulder, cramps up Weatherald. Top edge that loops easily back to Jamie Smith, who completes the formalities for the opening wicket.
Dec 17, 2025 5:30:00 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: 4,4! Carse still punished
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Carse getting a beating from the commentators on air for bowling too short and wide and applying no pressure. This has been too easy for the openers, as Weatherald goes over the top of the point region to find four. Another no-ball to follow that up.
Dec 17, 2025 5:22:02 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Short and wide to Head and punished; Carse loose
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Not the best start from Carse, a couple looseners, and also a couple of no-balls. Needs to find his rhythm quickly because this is a really important hour of play in the context of this series.
15/0 after 4.
Dec 17, 2025 5:12:47 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: First boundary! Weatherald off his legs
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Shot! Good confidence-inducing shot to get going for Weatherald. Angled in by Carse, and Weatherald leans into it to bet the square leg fielder and find the fence.
7/0 after 2, trying to find some rhythm.
Dec 17, 2025 5:04:05 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Here we go then! Jofra Archer with first go at local hero Travis Head
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: The players run out into the Adelaide sunshine, and never has a good start been needed more. Archer has started well regularly, but needs that to translate to wickets. Particularly that of Travis Head, who is the hometown boy and has such a good record at this venue.
On we go!
Dec 17, 2025 4:52:13 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Still no spinner for England; just one change
For England, the calls for an extra frontline spinners in Shoaib Bashir to be used as temperatures increase down under have fallen on deaf ears. Will Jacks remains the choice to carry that burden – will it be enough?
ENG Playing XI: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Will Jacks, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue
Dec 17, 2025 4:44:31 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Three changes for the Aussies – Steve Smith the big miss
Despite leading the series 2-0, it is Australia making three changes – two planned, with Cummins and Lyon in for Doggett and Neser – but one forced, as Smith has to miss out. Khawaja comes back in, and reportedly will bat at four.
AUS Playing XI: Travis Head, Jake Weatherald, Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Inglis, Pat Cummins (c), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland
Dec 17, 2025 4:34:26 AM IST
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: WELCOME BACK TO ADELAIDE, where Australia have won the toss and opted to BAT
Australia vs England 3rd Test Day 1 LIVE Score: Good morning! The Ashes are back, after a couple of weeks in which there has been no lack of drama with England’s vacationing after going down 2-0. But was that just the tonic Ben Stokes and his team needed?
We find out soon, but some big last-minute news from the Australian camp as Pat Cummins wins the toss and opts to bat first: no Steven Smith for this match, kept out by illness. Opportunity for England?
