{"id":58811,"date":"2025-08-11T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58811\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:42:07","slug":"ashes-2005-deep-dive-peak-ponting-and-australias-great-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/58811\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashes 2005 deep dive: Peak Ponting and Australia&#8217;s great escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"w-article__summary\">Ricky Ponting played an all-time innings to save the third Test for Australia<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper\u2019s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, knocks Louis Cameron&#8217;s off stump out of the ground with a reverse-swinging seed on the 20th anniversary of the epic draw at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, who could forget the sound of Michael Clarke&#8217;s timber being shattered by a Simon Jones wonder-ball, Shane Warne&#8217;s agony at narrowly missing out on a Test ton, or Ricky Ponting&#8217;s match-saving hundred?<\/p>\n<p>But do you recall Ashley Giles&#8217; unplayable delivery to Damien Martyn? The supposed rift in the Aussie camp? The heroism of Errol Alcott? We look back at all this and more in our podcast series commemorating the greatest Ashes campaign of all time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Episode index: <\/p>\n<p>2.52 How cricket became cool again in England<\/p>\n<p>11.28 Did Australia celebrate a draw too hard?<\/p>\n<p>30.00 Did Mike Gatting invent cryptocurrency? Plus Ashley Giles&#8217; forgotten seed\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>43.47 Worst and best takes<\/p>\n<p>58.06 Peak Simon Jones\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1.03.00 Was Errol Alcott&#8217;s Australia&#8217;s MVP of this series?<\/p>\n<p>1.09.34 Australia&#8217;s siege mentality after English press &#8216;lies&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>1.18.01 The warning signs for Australia<\/p>\n<p>First Test episode &#8211; A false dawn at Lord&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Second Test episode &#8211; Gloves off as England roar back<\/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<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":"Ricky Ponting played an all-time innings to save the third Test for Australia Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-58811","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\/58811","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=58811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}