Pick of the day: Cricket: The Ashes
7pm, Channel 5
Today sees the opening day of the third instalment of what remains one of international sport’s great rivalries.
England, led by Alastair Cook, lead 2-0 and are favourites to clinch the series at Old Trafford but team members are wary of predicting a 5-0 whitewash of a relatively weak Australian team.
Commentary and analysis comes from England’s Ashes-winning ex-captain Michael Vaughan, the forthright former Yorkshire and England batsman Geoffrey Boycott and the former Middlesex bowler Simon Hughes.