The Ashes 2005

[Untouchable]

The greatest test series of all time started 20 years ago today.

Share memories below please.

Many thanks to Glenn McGrath for falling over a loose ball and damaging his ankle ligaments and to Billy Bowden for giving out Michael Kasprowicz for gloving the ball with his hand away from the bat in the second test.


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[Banana]

No DRS, but what if there would have been...

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/109117/what-if-the-2005-ashes-had-been-played-with-drs-alternative-universe-special-cricket-cricbuzzcom

 

[Justheretoread]

No DRS, but what if there would have been...

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/109117/what-if-the-2005-ashes-had-been-played-with-drs-alternative-universe-special-cricket-cricbuzzcom

3-0 to the Aussies then apparently. As someone who watched almost every ball of that series, that doesn’t feel right at all?

Maybe rose tinted glasses play a part but I struggle to see how it would have been that one sided.

 

[kevalutonbee]

No DRS, but what if there would have been...

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/109117/what-if-the-2005-ashes-had-been-played-with-drs-alternative-universe-special-cricket-cricbuzzcom

But just like in fooball the flow of the games would have been different.

For example, if Trescothick had been given out, the incoming batsman could have been out first ball etc etc

 

[CTBee]

No DRS, but what if there would have been...

https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/109117/what-if-the-2005-ashes-had-been-played-with-drs-alternative-universe-special-cricket-cricbuzzcom

Written by an Australian I think, they fail to mention that Kasprowicz was plumb LBW when the Aussies needed about 30 to win at Edgbaston.

 

[CTBee]

The BBC have got a documentary on this series on IPlayer at the moment. It's pretty good (features Simon Jones, Strauss, McGrath and Gilchrist) but a little on the short side at 30 minutes long so they miss a few key moments (such as Warne dropping Pietersen at the Oval).

 

[German Bee]

Also Batters changed their technique when DRS came in, it used to be bat/bad together. Now its bat Infront of pad.