{"id":41479,"date":"2025-08-03T23:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41479\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T23:34:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T23:34:03","slug":"ashes-2005-deep-dive-gloves-off-as-england-roar-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41479\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2005 deep dive: Gloves off as England roar back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Join us as we recount perhaps the greatest Ashes Test ever played<\/p>\n<p>                Kasprowicz&#8217;s recall of THAT Edgbaston moment<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Test made famous by Glenn McGrath\u2019s rolled ankle, Ricky Ponting\u2019s fateful \u2018we\u2019ll have a bowl\u2019, reverse swing, Andrew Flintoff brilliance, Shane Warne stepping on his stumps, Michael Kasprowicz\u2019s last-ditch departure and an iconic photograph of sportsmanship.<\/p>\n<p>But we have delved even deeper, into John Buchanan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>EPISODE INDEX:<\/p>\n<p>2.00 &#8211; What it was like to cover a &#8216;surreal&#8217; Ashes tour<\/p>\n<p>7.00 &#8211; When Clarke and Kasprowicz lost all their playing kit at Leicestershire<\/p>\n<p>11.15 &#8211; John Buchanan perusing the Worcestershire cake stall<\/p>\n<p>12.50 &#8211; Should Ponting have listened to Warne before the toss?<\/p>\n<p>17.40 &#8211; The factors that led to McGrath&#8217;s fateful ankle roll<\/p>\n<p>33.30 &#8211; Giles fires back at the doubters after becoming a &#8216;one-man sideshow&#8217; between Tests<\/p>\n<p>37.45 &#8211; The Geraint Jones narrative arc<\/p>\n<p>39.20 &#8211; The little-known story behind iconic Flintoff-Lee photo<\/p>\n<p>50.15 &#8211; England&#8217;s reverse-swing advantage<\/p>\n<p>1.02.15 &#8211; Harmison&#8217;s slower ball to Clarke, Flintoff&#8217;s over of brilliance to Ponting<\/p>\n<p>1.24.30 &#8211; The security concerns after Tube bombings<\/p>\n<p>First Test episode &#8211; A false dawn at Lord&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kasprowicz recalls Edgbaston 2005 on the Unplayable Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/the-unplayable-podcast\/id1093437634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Apple<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6cuIEIwXOoSNOqsRDOvIbS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/cricketa.us\/TUP_YT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join us as we recount perhaps the greatest Ashes Test ever played Kasprowicz&#8217;s recall of THAT Edgbaston moment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-41479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}