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The Analyst Inside Cricket

GREAT ASHES TESTS - Ep1: The Demon

The Analyst Inside Cricket

Sport Social Podcast Network

Sports, Cricket

4.5654 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

First of a five part series highlighting great Ashes Test matches through history. Narrated by Simon Hughes, this first episode tells the story of the epic 1882 Oval Test which signifies the birth of the Ashes. In it 'the Demon' Frederick Spofforth is irked by the antics of WG Grace and torpedoes the England batting for just 77 to give Australia their historic first victory in England by 7 runs. It prompted the mock obituary in the Sporting Times mourning the death of English cricket, and set in motion 146 years of intense rivalry, and counting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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1:26.3

Music Hello and welcome to the Analyst Inside Cricket and this special mini-series looking back at some great Ash's test

1:28.2

matches of the past. As we build up to the 2025-26 Ash's, I thought it would be good to reflect

1:34.1

on some classic moments from Ash's history to help give this forthcoming series perspective and

1:39.2

context. In the first episode of this five-part series, we're looking back at the famous test of 1882 at the Oval,

1:46.4

which is, of course, where the idea of the ashes was born.

1:49.7

This is an extract from cricket's greatest rivalry, a history of the ashes in 12 matches, read by the author.

1:57.4

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2:10.7

England and the colonists, as the Australians were known, had already played each other eight times before the famous Oval Test match of August 1882. England had won two, Australia four,

2:16.9

and there'd been two draws. Even from the start,

2:19.6

England were playing catch-up. The only one of these test matches that hadn't taken place in

2:23.5

Australia was at the Oval in 1880. In it, and on his test debut, WG Grace made 152 to lay the

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