Ashes 2005 deep dive: Gloves off as England roar back

Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper’s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, keeps both gloves on his bat to re-live one of the greatest Ashes Tests ever with host, Louis Cameron, on the 20th anniversary of the Edgbaston epic.

It was a Test made famous by Glenn McGrath’s rolled ankle, Ricky Ponting’s fateful ‘we’ll have a bowl’, reverse swing, Andrew Flintoff brilliance, Shane Warne stepping on his stumps, Michael Kasprowicz’s last-ditch departure and an iconic photograph of sportsmanship.

But we have delved even deeper, into John Buchanan’s fondness for a Worcestershire cake stall, an Ashley Giles sideshow, the Ponting-Warne dynamic, security concerns that gripped the Australian camp, and so much more.

EPISODE INDEX:

2.00 - What it was like to cover a 'surreal' Ashes tour

7.00 - When Clarke and Kasprowicz lost all their playing kit at Leicestershire

11.15 - John Buchanan perusing the Worcestershire cake stall

12.50 - Should Ponting have listened to Warne before the toss?

17.40 - The factors that led to McGrath's fateful ankle roll

33.30 - Giles fires back at the doubters after becoming a 'one-man sideshow' between Tests

37.45 - The Geraint Jones narrative arc

39.20 - The little-known story behind iconic Flintoff-Lee photo

50.15 - England's reverse-swing advantage

1.02.15 - Harmison's slower ball to Clarke, Flintoff's over of brilliance to Ponting

1.24.30 - The security concerns after Tube bombings

First Test episode - A false dawn at Lord's

Michael Kasprowicz recalls Edgbaston 2005 on the Unplayable Podcast

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