TMS Top 10: Ashes Characters
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
From Stuart Broad to Ben Stokes, Shane Warne to Steve Waugh, Freddie Flintoff to Ian Botham. Who is the ultimate Ashes character? Whose personalities have shone on the pitch in the most high pressure games? Isa Guha, Sir Alastair Cook, and Jonathan Agnew debate their top 10 Ashes characters from players across England and Australia.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.3 | Welcome to the Wayne Rooney show. |
| 0:09.3 | Twice a week, Wayne Rooney, Kayeard and me, Kelly Somers, |
| 0:12.4 | break down the biggest stories in the Premier League and beyond. |
| 0:15.5 | Coming to the Premier League, he's shown one called Play, he isn't. |
| 0:18.2 | He's been probably the sound of the season. |
| 0:19.6 | Plus, we'll hear the funniest and most outrageous stories from Wayne's career. |
| 0:23.7 | I had two seasons when I played as the number nine and scored 34 goals in both the seasons. |
| 0:28.1 | But I was bored. |
| 0:30.3 | The Wayne Runey Show. |
| 0:31.5 | It's what everybody's talking about. |
| 0:33.8 | Watch an eye player, listen on sounds. |
| 0:44.7 | The Watch an eye player, listen on Towns. Hello and welcome to the very first episode of Ashes Top 10 on the TMS podcast, |
| 0:50.5 | where we'll be ranking the greatest male characters to have ever graced the ashes here |
| 0:55.5 | or in Australia. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm Isha Gura and I'm joined by two people that know a thing or two about cricket and have |
| 1:05.9 | been involved with or seen their fair share of Ashes drama. |
| 1:10.0 | So Alistair Cook and Jonathan Agnew, hello to you both. Very nice to be here, Isha. We have some fun with this. We certainly are. And you're both looking very dapper, I have to say, in your suits. Yeah, I've tried very hard. They're dressed for radio anymore, Isha. Okay. Well, it's a great start to the very first episode of Ash's Top 10 with you two |
| 1:29.2 | And what a category we have to start as well |
| 1:31.9 | The Greatest Ash's characters |
| 1:33.4 | Whose personalities have shone on the pitch |
| 1:36.3 | In the most high pressure games |
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