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Let the Action Begin
The huge build up to the 2025/6 Ashes is almost over. The talk is nearly done. Time to walk the walk. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann survey the stage at the Perth stadium and assess where the balance of…
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
2005 ASHES Episode 6: ECSTASY
The climax to the greatest Test series of all time - the Oval Test of 2005. England, who hadn't held the Ashes for 18 years, went into this final Test 2-1 up, knowing that if the Australians managed …
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
2005 ASHES Episode 5: UNSUNG HEROES
The Trent Bridge Test of 2005 was the first time England had taken a significant lead in the Ashes for 18 years. It was only achieved in a tense finale in fading light by two players - Ashley Giles …
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
2005 ASHES Ep4: LOCKED OUT
The dramatic tale of the third Ashes Test of 2005, told through the players eyes - featuring Michael Vaughan, Freddie Flintoff, Andrew Strauss, Simon Jones, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Adam Gilc…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Ashes Countdown 5: When Clooney Came Out to Play
Ashley Giles is the guest on this podcast. One of the heroes of the 2005 Ashes looks back on his exploits in that series during which a partnership with Kevin Pietersen at the Oval earned him the nic…
Published on 3 weeks ago
2005 ASHES Episode 3: THE GREATEST TEST
The story of the most gripping Ashes Test ever played, the Edgbaston white-knuckle ride of 2005, which went literally to the wire, England eventually winning it by two runs. It featured so much dram…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
2005 ASHES Episode 2: WAKE UP CALL
Classic retelling of the epic drama of the 2005 Ashes - the greatest Test cricket series ever. This is the wildly fluctuating first Test at Lord's. Simon Hughes and Simon Mann marvel at the explosive…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
2005 ASHES Episode 1: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
The first episode of our six -part series on the 2005 Ashes - often regarded as the greatest Test series of all time. Twenty years on Simon Hughes and Simon Mann relive the drama of those Tests with …
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Ashes Countdown 4 - Slanging Match
Ten days to go to the 2025/6 Ashes and Simon Hughes and Simon Mann monitor the war of words in the Australian press and on podcasts as the pressure builds from the Fourth Estate. The whingeing Poms …
Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago
GREAT ASHES TESTS Ep5: The Miracle of Headingley 81
An extract of the final episode of the five-part series dramatising Great Ashes Tests of the past. This episode revisits the epic series of 1981 - Botham's Ashes - featuring interviews with Botham, …
Published on 4 weeks ago