Favourite Ashes Moments

[On The Bob]

I can’t believe no one has mentioned anything from the 90s

My first ever experience of watching cricket as a youngster was the ‘97 series when we battered The Aussies at Edgbaston. I was 9 year old.

Hussain scored a double ton, backed up by a Thorpe century after bowling them out on day one. Won the test by 9 wickets - that was probably one the best highlights of the 90’s!

That Test Match got me instantly hooked on cricket. I was a nightmare growing up after that. Always wanting to pull sickies at school to watch the opening day of a Test Series.

My favourite Ashes moment is still Stokes at Headingley. Just the most mind blowing and Nervy day of cricket I’ve ever watched. I was at my mates house party afterwards. I was not in a good place come home time on that night!

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

This is up there.

This was one of the first ones came to my mind too. Proper sportsmanship.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

1977 Boycott's 100th 100, in the Ashes, at Headingley.

My first test match.

Not an ashes moment but I love this.

 

[Expat Smoggie]

I think for me it’s a case of remembering my youth, days of listening to BBC Radio 2 Test Match special on the 2 shilling radio. I can still remember where I was sat, the weather and the special feeling of when Geoff Boycott hit his 100th hundred. Magnificent.

 

[McMordie]

I was at Headingley in 1977 on the day Boycott got his 100th 100 and the thing I remember about it was that walking to the ground on the morning no one was in any doubt it was going to happen. The front page of the Yorkshire post had an article about it and the feeling was that it was destined to happen.

I happened to be at Headingly on the same date in 2017 for a Yorkshire v Lancashire 2020 and it really brought back some memories looking across to the spot I'd been sitting in with my dad 40 years earlier to the day.

I was also at Headingley for the Botham test in 1981 but unfortunately on the Saturday, when England were getting hammered.