Ashes Fever 2005 - The Greatest Ashes Series of all time
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This video features the Channel 4 Documentary about the historical 2005 Ashes Cricket Test Series.
Warne's performance in that series was simply incredible. He took 40 wickets and stood up and took responsibility when his side were struggling.
Literally, cricket peaked here. This level of perfection and excitement will never happen in Cricket ever! As a 13-year-old, I remember watching this series from my ancestral house in India.
Agreed. The days before T20 diluted the cricket calendar. Back when Test matches meant a lot more to fans of every nation.
Nahh, this was just when England finally won one lol
True it was amazing! I was 12 at that time ...
Cricket is so underrated man
What a bowler Glenn McGrath was - him stepping on that cricket ball changed the series..
Was it an unfortunate accident? or was it fate smiling on England that year? Either way that injury turned the entire Ashes series in England’s favour
iam from Iran 🇮🇷 I really love to watch cricket cricket is very underrated in Iran iam visit UK in 2012 and watch live match in Leeds stadium England vs south Africa 2nd test were alviro Peterson score 182 and match was draw
Test cricket in England is amazing😍
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Iran needs a Test Cricket Team. Then you can play America because they're starting to play cricket....🤔
i have watched this so many times and still find myself in tears lamenting the great shane warne what a man what a great cricketer and what a great human
Great comment. I totally agree with you.
Always sad seeing Warne on these programmes now. I have never felt sad about a famous person passing away before but it was different when he passed away. Maybe it was due to how young he was in terms of things. Also, I'd seen him start his career in test cricket and he was a good bloke as well by the looks of it. Yes he made mistakes in his life, but who hasn't?? I always liked his stories, interviews and commentary as well. He's sadly missed. RIP.
Have to agree feels like someones cutting onions behind me
And im english which shows how widely he was loved
As an English who has migrated to Australia in 1990 at age 24, I have to say I loved Warnie. The trepidation when he came on to bowl. Those first 10 years in Oz was hard in Ashes. Warne, we only wish you were English.
Warnie is so missed here in the UK. His passing is a raw wound still. We feared and respected his magical otherworldly talent. He's irreplaceable. We miss you Warnie.
Same it was like a close family member passing. Still absolutely devastated
@@CHRISSYCHICKagreed. I'm still gutted when I hear his commentary. Or watch him on UA-cam. The other comments on this thread are brilliant.
I’ve been lucky enough to have watched our last 2 Ashes victories on Australian soil. 2010/11 was the best victory. This was the best series. Ever.
It's good to see your comments under most cricketing videos, Mr Kipling. Talk about love for the game!
@@soumyashreebiswal14 absolutely!! I love the game. Have done for 35 years. Thanks for your great comment!!
@@mrkipling2201 35 years! You must seen so much change in the game over the years, then! Mad respect. I too, love this game and go around UA-cam looking for some documentaries or old cricket highlights from the archives. And 9 out of 10 times, I find you in the comments, haha. Cheers, sir.
@thecricketeer3382 uuuuuuuuu
But, Australia always dominate against England in Ashes. And , in last three Ashes series, Australia dominate against England.
Ashes 2013= 5-0(5)
Ashes 2017= 4-0(5)
Ashes 2019= 2-2(5)
Ashes 2021 =4-0(5)
Imagine, if Australia Wins Ashes next year, then What will happen to England
These cricket are gone. Now everything is money.... T20 era has spoiled the cricket badly... 😢😢😢
how about all bounderies being sized down. now even last batsman hit 6's 😂😂
It's not spoiled, the game has just evolved
the 2005 Ashes series will be talked about for many many years to come. both teams played outstanding cricket and the sportsmanship between the two teams was incredible
Will go down as a one hit wonder for England.
Due to England losing 3 or 4 of that 2005 team to bad injury and mental health issues in the following couple of years. If that 2005 England team had played in the 2006/07 Ashes series, all fit and firing, it wouldn't have been 5-0 to Australia. Yes, Australia still would have won the series, because they were so fired up and motivated. It probably would have been 3-1, or 3-2 to Australia if every game had seen a positive result and not any draws.
I am 40 years old now and I was in 3rd year of my engineering when I saw that matches…What a series, … May age fellow can understand that England pulled the impossible and able to defeat mighty Aus which was unbelievable before that Ashes.
Like every English Cricket fan, I have this series on DVD. Watched it many times. It never gets old, especially now Warnie's gone.
Flash in the pan series.
@@martussfrank3903 Here on a bank holiday Sunday hungover watching this as can't be bothered looking for DVD, please explain your comment?
@@arronrichardson6322 Australia won 8 or 9 Ashes series in a row, home and away. They finally lose a series in England by the tightest of margins, thanks largely to Glenn McGrath rolling his ankke and missing most of the series, and England carry on like it had won the (FIFA) World Cup. In the next series in Australia, England got battered 5-0. Hence, flash in the pan. England had to play like Hercules, at home whilst Australia weren't at their best without its best fast bowler and still the series went down to the wire. Win 8 or 9 series in a row and then carry on like you're the GOAT.
This is by far the best cricket documentary.
The entire series was like a hichkouk movie.thrill suspense agony and what not. Never again we will watch such a series fingers cross
I am watching this during the 2023 series. Just watched the final day of the first test at Edgbaston, an incredible game but unfortunately not the result I was hoping for, but fingers crossed we bounce back
We have bounced back, I can see a 2 all series and 1 draw
@@supercellgenius9302 no draws with Bazball
@@henryburton6529 if we lost a lost to rain there could be
@@supercellgenius9302 England would declare at 0/0 to ensure a result
@@henryburton6529 lol prob not altho wouldn't put anything passed them. Don't know where your from but weather up north of England is awful atm hopefully it improves b4 next test. I had a vision b4 ashes started of a draw and Aussies retain
It was a classic up there with 81 so sad to see Shane Warne RIP 🪦 Sadly Missed I saw him in 97 at Headingley and again in 2005 at Old Trafford from start to finish it was mouth watering I still think 🤔 we are going to lose at Edgebaston I was that nervous I was on the toilet when Warne stood on his stumps 🤘😄 and after Harms got the last wicket I just jumped all over my Dad 👨 that is the best test match ever
The Ashes used to be on Channel 4 😢 I remember watching this whole series
TMS is the only way to follow cricket these days
@@CricketEnglandSky have the live rights, while BBC have TV and online highlights.
RIP Rudi Koertzen, Richie Benaud, Ruth Strauss, Tony Greig and of course Shane Warne.
Been watching for 4 years now. ( Queensland Australia) and this team gives me the cricket fix I need over the winter. Thank you Bison and the team. Congratulations champions
and then the ausies absolutely roared back. and the same group of players beat england in the next ashes 5-0 and also won the world cup . 3rd time in a row. which had never been done before.....
1999, 2003, 2007
even won it in 2015. :O
i miss the old days...
I have to say that it wouldn't have been 5-0 to Australia if our team had been the same as it was in 2005, with them all fit and firing. Australia would have won but probably 3-1 or 3-2.
God I remember that Sunday. Church had just finished and every bloke was feverishly hunched over a phone listening to the commentary on 5 Live Sports Extra. We raced home. The tension, the drama! Pure magic!
99 to 2006 it was best cricketing era
I remember what a great series it was best of Test Cricket
Rest in peace Shane Warne
The series that injected cricket into my blood❤️🏏
Best series of all time.
Great to see cricket being played so intensely and in great spirit. Iro ically I beleive this era of Australian cricket, & probably earlier, with all the sledging going on, was the start of what culminated in the sand paper disgrace. I'm Australian & cricket of today is not respected by me. I thoroughly enjoyed this video, I lament what has been lost. ( not the ashes in this case) It will be a long long time before cricket in Australia will regain integrity. The lunatics still rum the asylum.
The English bowlers doctored the ball
As an England fan I've been lucky to watch us win two Ashes series and a World cup. You must have experienced way more success than that but I'll take what I've seen!
EA CRICKET 2007 ... HAVE made more special with ashes showcase
Miss that time
Its always a dream to beat this mighty ausi team😮
the best ashes series i can remember tbh.... and a few after these were good too. when johnson was playing .... and kp was too.
but nowadays its less like a rivalry and more like the best of friends playing each other :s
Until the test at Lord's a few weeks ago.....
Pigs arse
The best ever cricket series in the history of cricket. I watched almost every ball of this series. Vowww this was some series
It was a series for the ages, nothing can match with that legendary series of 2005 Ashes. Still feel those days❤️❤️❤️
Rubbish.
If McGrath played the whole series, Australia wins it 4-0. Put an asterix next to your precious flash in the pan series win you wet wipe.
RIP big Warne. This one still hurts to this day
You are very impartial. True and honest analysis. You have a new subscriber.
Brilliant series. England brilliantly plyed throughour these series..aussies lost a test series almost in a decade. England brilliant.❤️🏴🏴
If McGrath played the whole series, Australia wins 2005 4-0. I mean it was 5-0 the following series so 4-0 in 2005 isn't beyond the realm of possibilities.
@@martussfrank3903the same England team didn't play in the following series. If they had, it probably would have been 3-2 Australia
From an Australian perspective, I cannot agree that this was the greatest Ashes series of all time.
Beautiful documentary...
Shane mate, how we 'poms' miss you.
Glen McGrath and shane Warne were deadliest bowling pair Australia ever had and in 2005 ashes they dominanted at lords. For 2nd test glen McGrath injury was turning point in that test series.
This ashes is on top of the list...
As a South African I love watching these as a neutral supporter.
Best fast bowling all rounder flintoff !! Jack Kallis - Am I a joke to you???
Did you see Flintoff bowling to Kallis in the 2008 test series??
@21:00 That introduction to Shane Warne!
May winged Angels sing you to thy eternal sleep... O' sweet Prince!
I melted in front of the tv. I couldn't work.
Before this series, reverse swing was called ball tampering 🤫
That’s nonsense and you know it 😂. Everyone knows that at the time The Ball always swung wildly on most English pitches at the time and reverse swing was nothing new for those who played there
Who’d have thought that Stephen Fry was responsible for winning the second test?
He will probably claim credit for the 2023 ashes when England win now he is President of the MCC
McGrath's injury is what won England the second test.
Great as this was....the 1981 series was every bit as good!
The best introduction for a cricket player @13:15
If England win the next test against the aussies this will take the title of greatest ashes series ever
But 2023 won't be the greatest series ever because England didn't win it? Is that what you're saying? 2005 is overrated. If McGrath didn't get injured Australia would have won it 4-0. 2023 is miles better than the 2005 series but idiots like you don't rate it because England didn't win it. You are a goose.
The best thing was
Quality bowling
wonderful
So when are yous going to make a documentary about what happened when we blew yous away in the 2006-07 action
What the series where we had Simon Jones, Vaughan, Trescothick absent, Harmison way out of form and a totally inexperienced captain.?? Yes, Australia would have still won the series if we'd had the 2005 team fit and firing, but 3-1 or 3-2 probably.
Third time watching the, Eve of the third test 2023
In 2023 England is defeated by india very badly (This is the power of India)😜
Dear world Cricket,
I know you hate us, but you'd miss us if we were gone 😙
- Australia 🇦🇺
Best Ashes 2005
nowadays , Pakistan vs India .... is way bigger than the ashes. even a 1 match test series would be bigger than the ashes..... and i believe that is down to the lack of manhood or professionalism or pride in the history . and the fight.... etc. ashes is going on and i am not even watching and many kids arent.... that was impossible to imagine in my time as a kid.
When Pakistan play India in test matches on a regular basis, then it will be as big - though not bigger - than the Ashes. But the politicians of both countries are currently having none of it, which is a shame.
Ashes is the epitome of test cricket 🏏 nothing came close of it
I don't think this series would have been as great as it was if we'd had DRS back then. Mind you, at least DRS hasn't ruined test cricket, unlike VAR in football, which has totally ruined the game. Absolutely ruined it.
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Best team England.
One day I will go to Lord's .
As a not crickter.
As a eater
For Lunch( test )
A question for everyone - Ashes 2005 or BGT 2021?
Is that even a question?
Ashes is way more exciting than BGT 🏆🏆🏆
can anyone find the 8 hour video of this series. It was on UA-cam but then got banned.
Well if it got banned it won’t be. In UA-cam anymore
Yeah probably, but you gave me hope with the ashes 2009 video. Even that was banned
I know exactly what you're talking about and i watched some of it a little while ago, I think it's still available man.
I don't have a link sorry, but just search "the greatest ashes/best ashes series 05" might find it 🤷♂️
I know, it's gone. Thankfully I watched the whole thing last year, but I'd still like to skip through it again. Can't anymore unfortunately.
For some reason I absolutely find this interesting and cringy at the same time. Ffs, England has literally been stomped over by the Aussies for almost 2 decades up until this point, home and away. Now that they won once for the first time in 2 decades, they make this super cringy documentary about why they were so destined to win, only to barely win it 2:1 on home soil, without Mcgrath bowling for nearly two matches and more importantly to be obliterated 5:0 down under right in the next Ashes.
Actually, there were several series that are superior to this one ('74/75', '89 etc etc etc) but the sad fact is that England won this series by three runs - and even then only because Australia's final bat was incorrectly given out caught behind when the ball came off the batsman's side/hip, not the bat. However, the most interesting thing about this series is what you mention in your final sentence - England won 2-1 on home soil but lost 5-0 in the next series so something went haywire somewhere and in only 18 months or so. Further, the series which had started this latest series of losses (for England) was 1989 and previews of that series could not decide the eventual winner (Australia ended up winning 4-0). Some very interesting outcomes over time indeed.
Peter Hayter was particularly nauseating.
Because it was an incredible series and an incredible Australia team. Not just that but if you look at England's home record in the Ashes since it at least made things competitive again. Less said about away aside of 2010/11 the better. Maybe it's OTT but we were crap for a long time.
When we went to Australia in 2006/07, we were missing Vaughan, Simon Jones and Trescothick. Harmison was nowhere near the fearsome fast bowler he was in 2005. Plus Australia were angry and were going to do whatever they could to get the Ashes back. I would say that if the England team that played so well in 2005 went to Australia in 06/07, the exact same team, it wouldn't have been 5-0. I would say that Australia would have still won the series, but it would have been a lot closer. Maybe 2-1 with a couple of drawn tests. Or even 3-2 if we got a result in every test match.
@Robin Kaila same here. Its like they wanted the most well spoken person who knew about cricket they could find to talk about England.
Well the first 20 seconds or so didn't really age well into covid times
Get over it
Amazing catch brother!
those series were different. even just biliteral ones were sooo important for each team.... and the way they took it....
but franchise cricket like ipl, psl, cpl, bpl,spl etc. are all ruining cricket. :(
i remember that odi series between southafrica vs england .... the kemp vs petersen
the test series between southafrica vs australia most recently the only one i can recall... except for Pakistani matches ... and Pak vs ind matches.... like the icc champions trophy 2017 .
the odi series between southafrica vs australia in which 434 was chased down and southafrica won the odi series. ...
the asia cup and tournaments in sharjah..... with wasim and waqar .... afridi .... shoaib akhter...... razzaq, younas, yousaf , inzamam,
the two tours ....
India toured Pakistan and won the series.
Pakistan toured india and won the series.
that was cricket at its best
another recent one comes to mind....
westindies winning .... and that champions song.
also with stokes test match innings single handedly winning it....
even an odi series between england australia and bangladesh .... so historic when bangladesh beat australia and england both in matches ....
the 2007 wc... when india and Pakistan getting knocked out in first stages.
before franchise cricket.... every tour had a whole build up....
and more teams were competitive.... like kenya in one of the world cup..... reaching the semi i think....
Is cricket telecast free or paid in england now ?.
this is the best I was vitness
1989 was best ashes
Australian by any chance?
Shane warne,murli❤
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wow
KP is the best english batsman.
What about Botham, Flintoff, Stokes, Bairstow, Butler, Gower, Cook, Root. Gooch, Stweart, Morgan, Collingwood ?
Kp is only the 7 highest test batter, 6th highest ODI and 7th highest T20 total England run scorer
@@CricketEngland if run totals matter then Don Bradman is nowhere amongst the greatest ever 😂. And you are seriously comparing Botham , Flintoff , Stokes ,Butler , Morgan , Collingwood etc to KP as a pure batsman 😂😂 ? Butler in ODIs is better but overall he is nowhere close 😂
@@ruchirmundhra6716 look at the stats and you will see
@@CricketEngland The fact you're doing it on such a poor metric that doesn't tell you much at all, as total runs is ridiculous. Run totals or wickets totals only proves generally longevity not how great you are. Just because you can get a gig in a the England team young and be above average for 12 years, you're gonna stack up runs but it's meaningless and if you actually knew cricket you'd know that.
Just to show how stupid you way is, check this out, Dale Steyn is well down on the wicket taking charts, way less than Anderson, which according to you means he's inferior. But everyone else in the world knows Steyn is one of the all time great ballers averaging 22.95 but he's only got 439 wickets to Anderons 700 wickets at 26.92. That also means he's better than Malcolm Marshall. Ambrose, Lillie, Garner, Donald etc etc. that there just makes your theory come tumbling down.
KP played for England in tests from 2005 to 2013, one dayers the year before so 2004 and 2005 to 2013 for T20, that's a short career , basically 8 years he put all those numbers up which are in all formats 13779 runs, total average 45.3 in just 340 innings. There's only Cook and Root scored more runs but they've done it in far more games especially Root he scored 19151 at an average 47.11 in 475 inning. Cook as scored 15737 runs at an average of 41.88 in 387 innings. Strauss has got more runs than guys like Buttler, Bairstow, Morgan, Stokes, so has Ian Bell who's 4th most run for England plus he's got more than Gooch and Stewart. Collingwood is down at 14th.
Stokes has now played 12 years in odi's and 11 in Tests. Buttlers on his 11/12 years as a one day plater and 8 as a test player, Root is on 12 years as a test player, 10 as a one day player, 7 years as a T20 player.
The fact is I've followed England for over 40 years and no one comes close IMO to the genius of KP, no one has invented shots the way he has, the way he changed the game by trying to hit the best bowlers out of the attack had never really been seen before regularly, to so many of his great innings in Tests cricket that people you've listed wished they could play regularly.
Where KP stands in modern English cricket is either at the top, or if you prefer Root's way of playing which is fairly basic you could put him there, but as far as putting bums on seats I've never seen another player from England do it like KP. Facts are he averages better than all those in tests apart from Root, KP averages 47.33 tests, 40.73 odi's and 37.93 in Int t20. Root averages 49.72, in ODi's 47.6 and in T20's 35.7. Even comparing against Root who's a far different player, who doesn't go out to entertain and IMO hasn't faced the quality of bowlers as KP did in his career. KP faced all time greats like Steyn, McGrath, Warne, Murali, who's Root really faced Cummins, Ashwin? hardly the same.
Even comparing against Buttler who's played 118 T20i's to Kp's 38, is not an intelligent way to gauge ability is it. KP was England's best t20 player, won them their first world cup and was player of the tournamnet and the first player to be NO1 ranked in the world for a couple of years. Buttler averages 31.94 in Tests, 39.54 in his 181 one day games to KP's 136 and 34.84 in his 57 T20 to KP's 37. So if we go by stats our supposed best white ball cricketer lacks when it comes to them, he's just played more games.
Morgan who was crap at test cricket, averages 20 in tests, 39 in Odi's and 28 in T20's, again non are as good as KP's.
KP even had to wait a few years to qualify and sit out so didn't get the games in say like Root has, especially when he was easily the best player in the country for at least 3 years before he got picked. Plus he tore his achilles in 2009 and it took a year or more for him to get back into form. Plus he suffered from bruised bone in his leg that made him come home from a NZ tour and affected his last couple of years.
i seriously don't know how you've got guys like Botham, Flintoff and Stokes against him, non are anywhere near as consistant as what KP is, sure they' were/are capable of great knocks but their stats lag well behind but they are allrounders. Botham averages 33 in tests and 23 in odi's , so why bring him up?Flintoff 31.77 in tests and 32 in odi's. Stokes averages 35 in tests, 41 in odi and 21 in T20, so apart from odi's where it's 0.5 higher, which tbf he out of everyone should have a good average, the team that England built and allowed them to play the game is far better and way more freely than in KP's day .I bet KP would have loved to play the one day game under their management that won the one day world cup and T20, it's basically how KP played anyway. Lets face it they all want to play like KP nowaways when before he used to get berrared for giving his wicket away.
Gower different era and wasn't as good against the best bowlers of his time, same as Stewert averaged 39 in tests and 31 in odi's. I mean seriously Collingwood, he struggled to get in the side at times, 40 in tests, 35 in odi's and 18 in t20's they are all nowhere near when you compare all their stats, so what are you going on about?.Botham was nowhere near the batsman KP was and he'd tell you that himself, that and his average is poor especially when he came up against the west Indies, whereas KP thrived against the best bowlers of his era like Warne, Murali, McGrath, Steyn, morkel, Johnson, Harris
I honestly can't believe I responded to this because even KP haters recognise he's one of the best to play for England in decades. What's he done to you to bring up morgan, Flintoff Bairstow, , Stewart, Morgan, Collingwood ? and to use a metric such as total runs scored. There's guys in County Cricket that have taken loads of wickets and scored loads of runs but thats because they've played for nearly 20 years, not a good metric,.
Anything the Poms manage to win is the greatest of all time. Doesn't happen often, though. How did the 2006-7 Ashes go? 😄
Don’t need to be like that. This was one hell of a contest mate, could have gone either way. England deserved it, yeah we flogged em in 07, but what’s that got to do with this? Just sounds like sour grapes.
2006/07, an angry, fired up Australian team faced an England team that were missing Vaughan, Trescothick, Simon Jones for starters and a few other players weren't in the same form as they were in 2005. If the same team that played in 2005, played in 2006/07 and were all fit and firing, it would have been a different series. Australia still would have won, but probably 3-1 or 3-2 if all 5 tests saw a result.
@@mrkipling2201 if grandma had balls she’d be grandpa. If McGrath played in 05, Aus would have won. What does it matter who’s missing?
It was a great series, but the GOAT label gets flung around too much. 1989, won by "the worst team ever to tour England", might be a better choice.@@byza101
@@robingallagher8605 each to their own. 89 was great, was an amazing achievement, we unearthed new players… But it did not have the suspense, atmosphere, or contest that this series had. The Edgebaston test broke my heart, Brett Lee got us so close. Had Warne not dropped Pietersen in the last test, it might have been a different result. England’s bowlers were relentless, Warne was supreme and it went down to the wire. What’s not to love about it?
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45:40 😊
RIP WARNE.....RIP BENAUD
England vs Warne and Magrath
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Aussies talking about the spirit of the game bloody cheats
1:08:43
Is that Sanjay Manjrekar?
Beautifully scripted and edited.
Being an Aussie I find it quite funny that the best series was England in 05, closely followed by India in 01… We lost both, but the contests were next level. Admittedly, this English side was not full of Englishmen, was more like the United Nations 😂😁😂
McGrath injury was the difference - England can talk it up but that played a huge part and in my opinion if he played ENGLAND would have lost the ashes.... but a great series I will never forget
06/07 was better
lols one of the great overs ever seen :D, it was good but come on. English media as always
Rip shane warne
4th test... ricky ponting win the toss and bat? i think england batted first.
55:37 ❤❤😂
Ok now let's see 2007 Ashes
So an ashes series that one side whitewashed the other was better than a close series than went down to the wire….
What a JOKE you really are
Hen was the last time yous beat us
Firstly 5 year old, go and see your Primary school English teacher and ask her to teach you properly how to spell, and then we might know what the fuck you are trying to say.
If only he hit it
Who’s he? Wtf are you on about
Man, english hype their mediocre players to such an extent!! In which universe is Vaughan a great player!!!
Peter Hayter sounds totally out of his depth talking about cricket. I genuinely switch off when he talks
“YOU HAV’NT GOT ENOUGH”
Daily Mail. ‘Nuff said.
1:02:41 Eh?
2 much talking not enough highlights
Tis not the greatest ashes ever . Tis the ashes in which the poms used lollies and cheated their way to victory and also like a lotto win Glen went home
And your evidence to back that up is where?
No charges of fines were brought by the ICC against England during that ashes.
Firstly where you got the lollies rubbish from, that's made up crap,, that came from the fact that some of the England team sucked sweets, which isn't cheating as the Aussies chewed gum as well.Irf it was illegal the umpires would have straight called anyone of them out from either side, so you're talking crap .
How can the Aussies say anything about cheating when they've been caught red handed with sandpaper because they couldn't get the ball to swing and had a few of their best players band for quiet some time. Also Glen didn't go home he played at the oval in the 5th test
It's like saying KP missed 3 Tests in the next home series 2009 because he tore his achiles tendon at a time when he was ranked the best player in the world, but England fans don't bring it up because they still won.
06 was better ;)
soccer? really?
Eng were a so average team in this era
No they wasn't at all that's why there was hype going into the series.They were ranked 2 in the world behind Aus and had just come back from SA after beating them also. It was just a shame the next series we lost Vaughn the Captain after this, Jones never played for England again through injury, neither did Trechotick and Harmison wasn't the same fast bowler after an injury and they made Freddie Captain, which was a terrible call.
Best series of all time ? Pretentious crap. The worst. Matches fouled up and abbreviated and uselessly abridged by rain. Not a case of interruptions being a legitimate inflection, but, rather, matches arriving at half-assed outcomes. Things such as Micheal Clarke whining to go off the field because of rain drizzle but Mathew Hayden disagreeing because he knew that Australia seriously needed runs at the time.
It was a great series and if you think not you don’t know much about cricket…. And you can’t say it wasn’t when you don’t say what was.
@@CricketEngland He's not a cricket fan. He doesn't know the sport.