our guest, graeme swann, knows all about pommie bashing. matches, 18 of his matches were against the aussies, eight of them in australia. when he says the ashes are all in the mind, does he believe england are prepared for the mental challenge coming their way? welcome to extra time. first test at brisbane's the gabba. they don't call it the gabba for nothing. what's it's like being in boundary patrol in front of the hostile fines? i wouldn't know, i was always sensible enough to be in the slips so i wouldn't know it. but it's true, the noise in there can be incredible. the whole stadium, it's like a cake tin sort of thing. it enveloped the grounds and it's all as one. wasn't designed for the acoustic in a way? maybe, but i remember going out to bad there in 2010. i was the ball after stuart broad had become peter siddle‘s hat—trick. the noise was the most ferocious. can you pick out the insults? no. if you were on the boundary, you probably could ? we always used to laugh about them, because they're not particularly witty. the australian c

graeme swann never played another test following the 5—nil whitewash in 2014.on has embarrassed himself and the game has a funny way of biting back. he continues: they are fighting words! but at least we know australia will be fastest between the wickets after drafting in usain bolt. the fastest man on the planet said cricket was his first love growing up watching the west indies play. you can follow the ashes with ball by ball commentary on our website — that's bbc.com/sport. i'm nick marshall—mccormack and that's your sport briefing for wednesday. if you have seen the uber story, you confident on having companies having your data. keep your it data close to your chest is one advice from one of our viewers. hello there. a lot happening over the next few days, some really cold air waiting in the wings but for the time being it's either wet or it's windy. we've got this succession of low pressure waving wiggling weather fronts spilling in across the uk and near those this is where we're going to find some particularly wet weather, again spilling beginning to arr

this is graeme swann, who is, finally enough, one of england cricket's most successful operators in recent yea rs as a most successful operators in recent years as a bowler. we're about to have the first test in brisbane, which is a cauldron, and we haven't won there in how many series. it is intimidating. that is the angle every other article has gone with. but he says, if we win there, imagine what that will do for the aussies. no coincidence he was so successful. the royal family and meghan markle, harry and meghan markle. you can imagine an argument over the breakfast table in a few yea rs if, over the breakfast table in a few years if, as everybody seems to be reported, this relationship gets more serious. and also on the eve of another royal marriage about to hit 70 years tomorrow. they have uncovered that meghan markle's decedent was beheaded at the orders of king henry viii. you canjust see it. yourfamily of king henry viii. you canjust see it. your family has of king henry viii. you canjust see it. yourfamily has never liked my family! hang —— harry and angela merkel would never a