{"id":643136,"date":"2025-12-19T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/643136\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:36:34","slug":"ashes-live-england-on-the-brink-of-becoming-the-worst-ashes-side-in-over-100-years-following-travball-clinic-at-adelaide-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/643136\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes LIVE: England on the brink of becoming the WORST Ashes side in over 100 years following Travball clinic at Adelaide Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/104894419-0-image-a-12_1766184418703.jpg\" fetchpriority=\"high\" \/><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>\u00a0Comes as England greats turn on their own: &#8216;he\u2019s a net bowler\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By JOSH ALSTON, SENIOR SPORT REPORTER, AUSTRALIA <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Updated:  18:33 EST, 19 December 2025   <\/p>\n<p>            David Lloyd savages Will Jacks&#8217; bowling<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">David Lloyd launched a blunt attack on England spinner Will Jacks as Australia took complete control of the Adelaide Test.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Speaking on Channel 7, Lloyd dismissed Jacks as &#8216;a net bowler,&#8217; questioning England\u2019s decision to rely on him while frontline spinner Shoaib Bashir has not bowled a single ball in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Asked by Ricky Ponting if Jacks was England&#8217;s No.1 spinner, Lloyd replied: &#8216;Absolutely not.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;He\u2019s a\u00a0net bowler. He bowled 250 overs in\u00a0red ball cricket in three years. So\u00a0no.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766186612375_wide_galleryImage_ADELAIDE_AUSTRALIA_DECEMB.JPG\" alt=\"ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 19: Will Jacks of England fields the ball during day three of the Third Test Match in the 2025-26 Ashes Series between Australia and England at Adelaide Oval on December 19, 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor\/Getty Images)\" height=\"300\" width=\"634\" \/>Welcome to day four of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Good morning and welcome to our live blog of the third Ashes Test in Adelaide and boy, doesn&#8217;t England have a mountain to climb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Travis Head tore the game away from England with his sparkling, unbeaten century on day three and remains at the crease at the start of day four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">If England lose in Adelaide, the Ashes would be decided inside ten days, making it the fastest Ashes series defeat since 1921 and a 104-year low point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Australia\u2019s 356-run lead, with six wickets still in hand, highlights how comprehensively England have been outplayed across all three Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">England\u2019s campaign has unraveled through repeated top-order failures, reliance on part-time bowlers, and the visible physical toll on captain Ben Stokes, who did not bowl on day three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Former players and commentators have labelled the tour embarrassing, with calls for mass changes at the ECB and suggestions that only Stokes should survive in leadership.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766185713748_wide_galleryImage_ADELAIDE_AUSTRALIA_DECEMB.JPG\" alt=\"ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 19: Travis Head of Australia hits a four during day three of the Third Test Match in the 2025-26 Ashes Series between Australia and England at Adelaide Oval on December 19, 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Philip Brown\/Getty Images)\" height=\"300\" width=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Ashes LIVE: England on the brink of becoming the WORST Ashes side in over 100 years following Travball clinic at Adelaide Oval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Comes as England greats turn on their own: &#8216;he\u2019s a net bowler\u2019 By JOSH ALSTON, SENIOR SPORT REPORTER,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[71788,186,748,1406,92,393,4884,5193,93,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-643136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-dailymail","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-live-blog","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115748863904981633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}