situation where the overs have done theirjob. so the openers are suspect. the keen thing for england as they ve got to make more runs. people like joe as they ve got to make more runs. people likejoe root have blamed the bowlers and, understandably, there are things that bowlers can do better. but if they make more runs, england, than the bowler sjob better. but if they make more runs, england, than the bowler s job will be much easier, and that is fundamental if you play in australia, you ve got to make big scores. australia do that very well, england don t. the scores. australia do that very well, england don t- england don t. the bare facts of it is that england england don t. the bare facts of it is that england have england don t. the bare facts of it is that england have never- england don t. the bare facts of it is that england have never come i england don t. the bare facts of it - is that england have never come from 2-0 is that england have never come from 2 0 down to
no wicket fell for more than two and a half hours. say it quietly: maybe . but english optimism on this tour is no sooner formed than shattered. the end of woakes, and, ultimately, hope. england dragged this into the evening. still there, jos buttler, the adelaide barricade. for so long, he d hardly put a foot wrong, until. 0h, he s thrown it onto his stumps. he has! watch the lights on the bails, hit wicket, the last in a series of backward steps. england s day five fight was too little, too late. australia win the test match! they go up 2 0 in the ashes. we can tjust leave it to the last day and expect to pull - off an enormous feat, which is what it - would have been today. the disappointing thing about this week is that we made the same . mistakes as last week. we just can t afford to do that. it s 4,000 days since they will last won a test in australia. to regain the ashes, they must now win three in a row. patrick geary, bbc news.
hour, the chances are created. how dangerous we looked that s almost the benchmark, moving forward. we made a concerted effort to try and pitch made a concerted effort to try and pitch the made a concerted effort to try and pitch the ball a bit fuller, and we went pitch the ball a bit fuller, and we went quite pitch the ball a bit fuller, and we went quite a few rounds in the first session. went quite a few rounds in the first session. but went quite a few rounds in the first session, but it wasn t too disappointed with that. we re still a long disappointed with that. we re still a long way in front of the game and we tried a long way in front of the game and we tried the a long way in front of the game and we tried the bowl a lot more than england we tried the bowl a lot more than england did. so it s nice to have that whole england did. so it s nice to have that whole group of fast bowlers who can come that whole group of fast bowlers who can come in that who
joe lynskey, bbc news. and uptake in the numbers, though it league operative much saying they are in line with the national average for that group, the average age of it for of a premier league player? age of it for of a premier league -la er? , , , player? this is the first time we ve had an update player? this is the first time we ve had an update on player? this is the first time we ve had an update on the player? this is the first time we ve had an update on the vaccination l had an update on the vaccination figures within the premier league since mid october when we learned that 68% of players had been double jabbed. that s now up to 77%, and the premier league have indicated that this is above the nhs average across england, 25 25 25 29 year olds, which are vaccinated with a single jab. the average age of a premier league player is 26.9 years. and of course, this is the double jabbed figures, there are also figures that they ve released for anyone with 1 3 jabs,
generally temperatures similar to today and near normal for this time of year. but the weather is changing, because the high pressure that has kept it quiet and settled is moving away, and instead this big area of low pressure swamping the atlantic, and around it we have these bands of rain, which will start to arrive on wednesday. but we start to arrive on wednesday. but we start with a widespread frost in scotland, england and wales, a bright start, it does cloud over. in the west the wind picks up, that cloud bring some rain across wales, western england, northern ireland, into scotland, bringing in some out there for western areas but ahead of it to the east, will be quite a cold feeling day i think during wednesday. beyond then, an area of low pressure, one band of rain moving away, another one starting to come in for thursday. this will bring some wetter weather northwards and eastwards. the wettest of the weather pushing its way up into scotland, and as the rain clears away from