Favourite Ashes Moments

The Flintoff over in 2005 with culuminated in him getting Ponting out. It was an over of total class and made it clear England really could take it to the Aussies (after years of being second best).

The Broad 7 for almost nothing spell at Trent Bridge too. Plus loads of others.
 
Otto42 said:
Boxing Day Test 2010, first day and still 'celebrating' Christmas - Aussies all out for 98.
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i remember watching the 1st over then going to bed. woke up in the morning thinking aussies would still be in and england were over 150 for 0. happy days!!
 
atypical_boro said:
Seriously Warne himself bowled balls that moved further than that though, and took wickets with them. There was something about the occasion itself though, and the fact it was against a returning but ring-rusty England batting legend, who shouldn’t have got back in the team really. It was a significant moment but I’ve always thought “ball of the century” is going a bit far.
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Yes of course he has bowled superbly since, he went on to be the greatest spin bowler of a generation. I was speaking in the context of it being very early on in his test career and his first ever ball in his first ever ashes series. It was incredible and as someone who loves his cricket, I genuinely hadn’t seen anything move like that before, I doubt even the late great Eddie Leadbeater could have done anyhing remotely like that 😉
 
Linny said:
Gotta be Stokes at Headingley. I was lucky enough to be there that day and the day before.

My “I was there” moment.

Amazing innings and incredible tension. The Lyon’s fumble. The poor reviews and missed chance for a wicket because the Aussies had wasted their reviews. Just incredible.
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Don't forget about Jack Leach's innings. The greatest ever 1.
 

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Otto42 said:
Not mentioned yet? Boxing Day Test 2010, first day and still 'celebrating' Christmas - Aussies all out for 98. Also remember in 1998 (?) getting up to see a rare England win, with a Goughie hat trick, he was one of my sporting heroes at the time, less enamoured with him these days!
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Not only were the Aussies all out for 98 but England ended the day 170-1. I can say I was there too!
 
Otto42 said:
See my mention of Goughie’s hat trick. Aussies were phenomenal in the 90s, remember watching in awe as Gilchrist tore appart our bowling attack of Craig White, Cork and Caddick in 2001. Made 2005 all the more satisfying.
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Yeah I was being a bit silly cos the 90s were awful.
 
Too many to choose from.

My “I was there” moment - Stokes hammers it for four.
My watched it on the telly moment - when they flipped the bails off in 2005 (the almost incidental equivalent of my number one Boro memory, although I was there for that one, when we hit the second at the Baseball Ground and clinched an FA Cup semi spot at the 345th attempt in 1997).
My might have been moment - when the old fellah got a flier on day 4 of Headingley 81 as “it was all over when Boycs was out”.

But my non-partisan memory. Has to be. The Ball of the Century. Poor Gatt.
 

Botham (swashbuckling) and Willis (that run up) at Headingly has got to be top of the list, but the only time I've been to an Ashes game was day 5 at Cardiff in 2009. Monty's last stand, every dot ball was met with delirium by the crowd while the Aussies got quieter and quieter before they started skulking away
 
The famous win in 05 at Edgebaston springs to mind, as does going through CDG airport trying to keep up with the Stokes innings at Headingly.

Also loved Mark Butcher's Times they are a changing cover as Sky's advert for the last series.
 
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