Fitting End to a Great Series

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Cricket, Sports

4.5 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Five Tests, 25 days, 2000 overs, 12,000 balls, 7, 187 runs. A riveting fight from start to finish, the end always in doubt. Simon Hughes and Deep Dasgupta reflect on a classic series, highlight the stars and the turning points, declare Test cricket the winner and join all the players for a lengthy lie down. To watch our special six part series on perhaps the greatest series of all time - the 2005 Ashes - subscribe to The Cricverse - https://open.substack.com/pub/cricverse/p/oval-showstopper?r=lo2wd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:35.2	Oh, late swing for Anderson now.
1:37.2	Was that out?
1:38.0	It is out.
1:40.7	Stokes flashes it away, through the covers for four,
1:45.5	and England have won the match.
1:55.0	Hello, welcome to the analyst inside cricket. It's me, Simon Hughes, and Deep Das Gutas has joined us today, because I thought, Deep, that we just reflect on that amazing series. I mean, you know, it's easy to sort of move on.
2:04.4	The cricket world turns so fast, doesn't it? And off goes to hundreds and people are already
2:10.2	talking about the ashes and all sorts of other cricket. And Premier League football's back.
2:16.8	You know, so people, this sort of stuff can get quickly
2:20.0	forgotten.
2:20.6	And I just thought we'd kind of reflect, as we both watched every ball pretty much of
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