Project Ashes Ep 5: History Lessons
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For the last 12 months, Jonathan Agnew has been given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the England men’s cricket team’s planning to win back the Ashes. Throughout the year, Aggers has spoken to key players, including Joe Root, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson, but also those less known names who play crucial roles.
In Episode Five, Aggers speaks to Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson to find out what they’ve learnt from previous Ashes tours, and what they’ll be telling teammates who have never experienced one.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:08.6 | The Ashes is the ultimate prize in English cricket. |
| 0:12.0 | Ab comes birth and now he burrs to all the men. |
| 0:14.6 | And those are the remaining of one. |
| 0:16.8 | The balls are stoked and hammers it for four. |
| 0:20.0 | At Skull Zone, the back raised. |
| 0:22.4 | I can't believe he'd seen that. |
| 0:24.6 | England have won by two runs. |
| 0:26.8 | England have only won once in Australia in the last three. |
| 0:29.7 | 34 years. |
| 0:31.3 | Eight series, one victory. |
| 0:33.3 | Dawson comes up and balls to war, who drives. |
| 0:35.7 | A drive through the outside for his hungry. |
| 0:38.7 | That is extraordinary. |
| 0:41.9 | Nasser Asain has won the task and inserted Australia |
| 0:45.8 | in what you'd have to say, very good conditions here. |
| 0:48.5 | England have ten players in their squad who've played on an Ashes tour before. |
| 0:52.8 | So what have they learnt from those trips? |
| 0:55.0 | And what makes Australia such a unique place to tour? |
| 0:57.6 | You've got to be aggressive, but patient with that aggression. |
| 1:02.4 | We big did up so much about the Aussies and the sledging and the crowd and the press |
| 1:08.3 | and all that instead of probably just focusing more on ourselves |
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