2005 ASHES Episode 3: THE GREATEST TEST

The Analyst Inside Cricket

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The story of the most gripping Ashes Test ever played, the Edgbaston white-knuckle ride of 2005, which went literally to the wire, England eventually winning it by two runs. It featured so much drama - Glenn McGrath slipping on a ball before play, Ricky Ponting putting England in, England walloping 407 in a day, Freddie Flintoff hitting 10 sixes in the match and producing one of the greatest overs in Test history, Shane Warne's miracle ball to Andrew Strauss and then Australia all but seizing a one-wicket victory until Steve Harmison's final intervention. Features brillaint Channel 4 match footage and commentary and contributions from Flintoff, McGrath, Warne, Strauss, Michael Vaughan, Simon Jones, Brett Lee, Justin Langer and Adam Gilchrist. Available to watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/GaPMtsF_Dcs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:12.0	Oh, Stephen Hermison with a slow ball.
0:14.9	Hello and welcome to episode three of The Greatest Ashes.
0:19.1	This is the greatest test, the Edgebaston test of 2005.
0:24.6	Hi, I'm Simon Hughes. And I'm Simon Mann. And you'd agree, wouldn't you, that this had to be
0:30.1	one of the most tantalising and probably greatest test matches ever played. There have been
0:34.5	great test matches played before this game at Edgeburston. Quite a few of them happened in 1981. There had been some great test matches played before this game at Edgberston.
0:40.9	Quite a few of them happened in 1981. There had been some great test matches played since Edgbertson 2005. But it's hard to think of a game that just drew people in and wrung them
0:48.8	out and made them feel so tense and so excited. And ultimately, if you're an England supporter,
0:55.3	so jubilant as this game in 2005 the game at edgebuston yeah and don't forget you can watch this podcast as well
1:01.2	on youtube if you google the analyst podcasts it comes up and you'll be able to enjoy a few clips of
1:08.2	that great test match as well as seeing the seeing the interviewees in person as well,
1:13.2	talking about their memories of that great series.
1:15.8	I actually interviewed Andrew Flint, or Freddie, the star of that series,
1:19.3	two days after England's victory parade at the Oval and Round London.
1:24.1	And he thought back to the gap between Lords, where, of course england went one down and edgebaston it was 10 days
1:31.6	and he thought my best approach as i'd had a pretty poor game i'd got norton three a couple of wickets
1:38.9	and dropped to catch my first ashes experience was extremely dispiriting I need to get away and so he went to
1:45.6	Cornwall straight away after the test match up um lords got in the car went down to devons to a place
1:51.9	called bovie castle with the family which is in the middle of nowhere nobody knows you and you could
1:58.7	just do nothing for a few days had a massage and just got away from it.
2:02.6	And during that time I had a bit of time to reflect on what had happened, how I can improve,
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