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Your favourite Ashes moments

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HeroHurley

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Doesn't have to be in favour of England, we've not always had the best of the times but always great cricket to watch.

In no particular order;


Collingwood, Panesar and Anderson 2009
Warne's ball to Gatting 1993
Flintoff v Brett Lee 2005
Botham 1981
Garry Pratt v Ricky Pointing 2005
Warne's hat-trick 1994
Gower and Morris up in the air 1990??
Broad refusing to walk 2013
Gough hat-trick 1999
Flintoff runs out Pointing 2009
 

HeroHurley said:
Doesn't have to be in favour of England, we've not always had the best of the times but always great cricket to watch.

In no particular order;


Collingwood, Panesar and Anderson 2009
Warne's ball to Gatting 1993
Flintoff v Brett Lee 2005
Botham 1981
Garry Pratt v Ricky Pointing 2005
Warne's hat-trick 1994
Gower and Morris up in the air 1990??
Broad refusing to walk 2013
Gough hat-trick 1999
Flintoff runs out Pointing 2009
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Botham 81. End.
 
Few more from 2005, Harmison's bouncer to Ponting, Harmison's slower ball to Clarke and Flintoff's over when he got Langer and Ponting
 
1.The 2005 Series
2.Botham and Willis at Headingley 81.
3.The roar of the Edgbaston crowd as Botham steamed in during his 5 for 1 spell.
4.The perfect first day at Melbourne 2011.
5.Watching highlights of Lillee and Thomson in 74/75...Jesus!!:eek::eek:
 
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What a series. Only 05 comes closes imo. Ponting fuming after my old mate G Pratt runs him out :)
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All day laying in the garden with radio, leaping up and down at times the dog and family thought I was crackers
 
A few that stand out for me, in no particular order.

Being at Edgbaston for THAT over from Flintoff.
Being at the Oval when we got our hands on the urn for the first time in 19 years.
Monty and Jimmy, the great escape.
517/1 - The Gabba 2010
98 all out - The MCG 2010
"He bowls to the left....." Followed by a first ball duck on the last day of the series in 2011
Broad 8/15
The first and last tests in 1997.
 
The last day at the oval was pretty special, England in all sorts of trouble, I was just sat watching it thinking we are going to Chuck this away then KP came in and played beautifully
 
Boycott’s hundred 100
Randall magic in the centenary test against Lillee at his best
Botham/Willis 1981
Gower 1985
2005 sneaking into the players lounge after day 2 at OT
2015? (Last time) spending time with the players after the Oval test where we lost but celebrated the series win
 
Stokes catch from the bowling of Broad.
Broads whole session the same game.
2005 the greatest series ever.
Australia beating us 5-0 to reclaim the urn over there. The most complete performance by any Ashes team.
England winning the urn at Chester le St.
Probably name a hundred more but these stick in my mind
 
The entire 2005 series and I doff my cap to the Australians as it seemed to me that England won every day and yet, somehow, the Aussies were still in with a chance of winning dee into the final day.
The 2006 Series down under and Paul Collingwood's 200 topped by the six.
The 1981 series, specifically the Headingly, Old Trafford and Edgbaston Tests

The 1981 and 2005 series, a demolition and a toe-to-toe battle. Two different types of series but each at the pinnacle of the sport.
 
From an older dude
Bob Willis 81
Botham 81
Thomson cMiller b Botham 82/3
Gower 85
Richard Ellison 85
Chris Broad 3 centuries 86/7
Botham smackin em Brisbane 130 odd
Gooch lbw Alderman all the feckin time 89 Alderman 41 wickets
90/91-Gower Sublime 2 hundreds Bruce Reid brilliant
93 Warne. Just Warne.
94/5 Warne hat trick
97 Nasser 200 Tufnell bowling beautiful the Oval
2001 Gilchrist fantastic
2002/3 Waugh
2005 the greatest series ever. It had everything from every player. Two superb teams.
2009 flintoff runs out ponting (😂)
10/11 Tremlett - they couldn’t play him and Cooks 800 runs
Broads 8-15 at Trent Bridge

So many fantastic memories thankk you the Ashes
 
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This for me, the moment made even better by the elegant simplicity of Benaud’s commentary.

‘Jones.....Bowden’

Brilliant.
 
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Simply has to be that ending to the second test in 2005, what a game of cricket and crucial victory for us that changed the whole momentum of the series.

It also showed what the whole of sport never mind cricket should be about, when Flintoff went over to Brett Lee and shoke his hand two players giving their absolute all for their countries in the game, but gracious enough to respect and admire each other at the end!

Another one that sticks in my mind is the series after where somehow the Aussies won test match in Adelaide after we had scored something like 600 in the first innings, to win from that postition meant they had to play positive cricket rather than just settle to avoid defeat it was a great performance by them, they had a fanastic test team, maki g the achievement of 2005 even better.
 
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Colly's 200 at Adelaide. Had drank 10 cans of Oranjeboom in anticipation of the second day's play starting. I managed to see him get to his 100 and then woke up at 7am with a terrible hangover. Was a good 10 minutes that I did see though.
 
HeroHurley said:
Doesn't have to be in favour of England, we've not always had the best of the times but always great cricket to watch.

In no particular order;


Collingwood, Panesar and Anderson 2009
Warne's ball to Gatting 1993
Flintoff v Brett Lee 2005
Botham 1981
Garry Pratt v Ricky Pointing 2005
Warne's hat-trick 1994
Gower and Morris up in the air 1990??
Broad refusing to walk 2013
Gough hat-trick 1999
Flintoff runs out Pointing 2009
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I came here for the 94-95 Ashes and ended up staying. I've now lived here longer than I did in England. I was there the day of Goughs hat-trick in 99. It was a scorcher iirc.
 
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