TMS Top 10: Ashes moments
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
From Nathan Lyon dropping the ball at Headingley to Shane Warne's 700th Test wicket. From Steve Smith's century on return from his ban to Steve Harmison's first ball wide at the Gabba - what is the ultimate Ashes moment? Isa Guha, Sir Alastair Cook, and Jonathan Agnew debate their top 10 Ashes moments.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.2 | Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | I like when a manager wears a suit and tides, you know what I mean? |
| 0:09.7 | In 2025, we were here for the football. |
| 0:13.0 | The Wayne Rooney Show |
| 0:14.0 | As a manager, you're making decisions on what you're seeing on the pitch. |
| 0:16.9 | Sometimes it doesn't always pay off. |
| 0:18.3 | Football daily. |
| 0:19.4 | Loyalty in football. Does it still exist? |
| 0:22.0 | There is no loyalty in football. And Tuni and Russo. Do you feel like the pressure actually helps you play the best football? |
| 0:28.4 | We've prepared ourselves to step out onto the pitch at the end of the day. Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah. with podcasts on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to Ashes Top 10 on the TMS podcast |
| 0:47.5 | where we'll be ranking the greatest individual moments in the men's ashes. |
| 0:51.6 | Winning or losing, over or innings. |
| 0:53.9 | Who has taken the game by the scruff of the neck to help their side? |
| 1:00.5 | I'm joined once again by two men who have lived Ashes' moments |
| 1:03.7 | from either from the crease or from the commentary box, |
| 1:06.8 | Sir Alistair Cook and Jonathan Agnew. |
| 1:08.9 | People always forget my one knot out in the As's test match of 1985 at Old Trafford. I don't because you told me about... I'm an Ashes winner as well, you know. Either from the crease or the commentary box. You're both from the crease and the commentary. I don't because you told me so many times about your one motto. There you go. I'm an Ashes winner as well. Thank you very much. Jack Leach, eat your heart out. |
| 1:30.4 | So the greatest |
| 1:31.5 | Ashes' moments we've been asked to rank |
| 1:33.3 | are. |
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