Ashes 2005 Deep Dive: Peak Ponting and Australia's great escape

Andrew Ramsey, The Australian newspaper’s cricket correspondent for the 2005 Ashes, knocks Louis Cameron's off stump out of the ground with a reverse-swinging seed on the 20th anniversary of the epic draw at Old Trafford.

Yes, who could forget the sound of Michael Clarke's timber being shattered by a Simon Jones wonder-ball, Shane Warne's agony at narrowly missing out on a Test ton, or Ricky Ponting's match-saving hundred?

But do you recall Ashley Giles' 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.

Episode index:

2.52 How cricket became cool again in England

11.28 Did Australia celebrate a draw too hard?

30.00 Did Mike Gatting invent cryptocurrency? Plus Ashley Giles' forgotten seed 

43.47 Worst and best takes

58.06 Peak Simon Jones 

1.03.00 Was Errol Alcott's Australia's MVP of this series?

1.09.34 Australia's siege mentality after English press 'lies'

1.18.01 The warning signs for Australia

Listen to our episode on the first Test (July 21) and second Test (August 4) by scrolling down in our podcast feed now.

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