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Test Match Special

Remembering Edgbaston 2005

Test Match Special

BBC

Sports News, Sports, News, Cricket

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A special programme from 2015 as Michael Vaughan shares his memories of the 2005 Edgbaston Ashes Test. Plus, we hear from listeners telling us where they were when England won.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.9

Hello, welcome to a very special TMS podcast, as we prepare to replay the entirety of perhaps

0:17.4

the greatest test of them all, England against Australia at Edgebaston in 2005.

0:22.7

You'll be able to hear the full match on Five Live Sports extra from May the 7th, that's

0:26.5

right across the bank, holy weekend, what better way to spend that.

0:30.5

So this is a game that resonates with so many people, everyone seems to know where they

0:33.9

were when Steve Harmson took that final wicket.

0:36.6

And back in 2015 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the match, we invited listeners to send

0:41.8

in their memories of the game and chat to some of our team about their recollections of

0:46.5

how it all played out.

0:48.2

Stand by then for Michael Vaughn, Jim Maxwell and Simon Hughes as we go back to 2005 and

0:53.8

that most incredible of finales.

0:56.5

England's driving for this last week at the I've been doing that for a while, Harmson

1:00.4

comes up and bowls and Casper of Idk goes back and Paris one as he caught down the

1:04.0

midside, there's an appeal for Cassius L, England of one, England of one by two runs.

1:11.7

Wow, what a finish, what an incredible test match, that even stole his team stuff.

1:22.3

Quite a few of these Steve Harmson takes the wicket and Geraint Jones takes a very good catch

1:27.6

down the lead side. What an phenomenal test match.

1:32.5

For noise, the atmosphere, the Australian accents, Jim, you shouldn't have been on.

1:39.0

Why were you on? Brilliant commentary by the way.

1:41.6

Thank you.

1:42.6

Well, Peter Baxter was producing the show at the time and as you know there's a tradition

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