Introducing: Legends of the Ashes

The Kickabout With Johnny Vaughan

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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

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It’s more than just a sporting contest. It’s the pride of two nations, where victory couldn’t be sweeter, but defeat is the bitterest taste of all. It’s a rivalry that transcends sport and creates true heroes and villains. This is Legends of the Ashes, hosted by lifelong cricket fan and current Marylebone Cricket Club President, Stephen Fry.

Over 10 episodes, this podcast series delves deep into the stories that make the England versus Australia rivalry one of the greatest there is. Relive incredible matches and history-altering moments with new, revealing insights from cricketing royalty including Lord Botham, Sir Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and modern-day heroes such as James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Steve Smith.

All episodes are available now.

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0:00.0	It's more than just a sporting contest.
0:05.0	The history, the ashes, that's what it's all about.
0:08.0	I would do anything for us to win as a team.
0:11.0	There is test cricket and then there's Ashes cricket and those are two very different things.
0:15.0	It's the pride of two nations.
0:18.0	Be aggressive, be brash, don't give an inch. If we don't take them on, we're going to get eaten alive. They think we're convicts, up them, we'll give it to them. You'll be telling lies if you didn't say you were a bit apprehensive. Where victory couldn't be sweeter. Some of my fondest memories of my entire life are on that trip.
0:39.1	It's just what dreams are made of.
0:42.9	But defeat is the bitterest taste of all.
0:47.0	I guess the biggest challenge was the mental scarring.
0:49.9	It was the worst day of my cricket career.
0:51.3	I could not believe it.
0:54.0	The tension here is absolutely incredible.
0:57.7	The Ashes kind of represents a gold standard really.
1:00.9	Across ten episodes in this podcast series,
1:03.4	we will hear from many of the stars who have illuminated the Ashes series over the decades.
1:07.6	The dramas they've been involved in
1:09.7	and the legends they've created.
1:13.0	It's out, England have done it.
1:15.2	How sweat, blood and tears have been shed.
1:19.6	Jubilation and despair felt.
1:22.8	And lives radically altered in the constant quest for its reclamation.
1:29.3	As an Australian and an English cricketer, it's the ultimate, isn't it?
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