
The Unplayable Podcast
cricket.com.au
August 10, 20251 hr 36 min
Cricket
Ashes 2005 deep dive: Peak Ponting and Australia's great escape
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Episode Notes
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 al...