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The Analyst Inside Cricket

2005 ASHES Ep8: A NATION ON TENTERHOOKS

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Cricket, Sports

4.5632 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The eighth extract from our exclusive 2005 Ashes video series - the (fifth) Oval Test. The climax to the series had a long and very public build up as the nation clung to the hope that England could finally get their hands on the urn that had eluded them since the 1980s. Would Simon Jones be fit? Would Glenn McGrath recover? Could Shane Warne conjure more miraculous deliveries? Did Freddie Flintoff have anything left? Would Kevin Pietersen relinquish his dead mongoose hairdo? Who would lift the urn? In thio extract we hear from McGrath, Flintoff, Vaughan, Strauss, Jones, and Langer as the match takes shape. To watch individual episodes, or the whole series and receive other special content sign up to The Cricverse on Substack https://cricverse.substack.com/p/inching-infront-the-2005-trent-bridge?r=lo2wd #cricket #ashes #england #australia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I see you lurking down there. I know why you're here.

0:03.8

My mum said you come, eventually, that you'd pick on even my dad or my uncles.

0:09.5

That's what you do to old guys, right?

0:11.8

Then with black men, you target them twice as much.

0:15.5

Well, it's not right and it's not fair.

0:17.6

And we're not going to let you get away with that.

0:20.0

Not for one more second.

0:23.1

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men.

0:26.2

It's about time we stood together against it.

0:28.7

Prostate Cancer UK.

0:35.0

Oh, late swing for Anderson now.

0:37.0

Was that out? It is out. Stokes flashes it away, through the covers for four, and England have won the match.

0:49.3

Hello, welcome to The Analyst Inside Cricket with me, Simon Hughes, and this is another extract from our special six-part video series, reliving the dramas of the 2005 ashes.

0:59.7

We left the series with England having stolen a knuckle-chewing victory at Trent Bridge to take a two-one lead with just the final test at the Oval remaining.

1:08.6

Don't forget, by the way, you can watch all these special films

1:11.6

that Simon Mann and I put together by joining the Crickverse on Substack. It is a small

1:16.1

subscription. It's only £3 a month, less than a cafe latte. So it's nothing really. And we

1:22.7

really appreciate your support. So please join us on the Crickverse, C-R-I-C-V-R-S-E.

1:30.4

The build-up to the Oval lasted for days, and it was billed as the most important sporting event in England since the 1966 World Cup final.

1:38.7

Tickets were going for a thousand quid and more. Inevitable headlines that the ashes are coming home were everywhere. The Australians were hoping to rebuild damage morale with a three-day match against Essex before the fifth test, but Essex rattled up 502 for four of Australia's ageing attack, with a relatively unknown 20-year-old called Alistair Cook, notching up 214.

2:02.6

From England's point of view, the most important issue in the lead up to the fifth test was, would Simon Jones be fit?

2:09.6

Remember, he'd limped off at Trent Bridge with damaged ankle ligaments, and his inclusion was vital,

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