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Originally Posted by Craig

What were your highlights of the just finished Ashes series?

For me:

1. Fred's bowling at Lord's, which was simply breath taking.
2. England's bowling effort at Edgbatson in the first session of the second day where they took 7 wickets. I know there was some dodgy umpiring, but England did bowl very well. And I'm going to admit it, I really enjoyed some of the fast bowling.
3. Australia bowling England out for 102 on the first day at Headingly, that was a clinical and dominating period of bowling if there was one. They made the English line-up look like they had never picked up a bat in their life.
4. Ricky Ponting becoming Australia's leading run scorer.
5. Jimmeh and monty holding on at Cardiff and somehow Australia couldn't get that last wicket. Pretty gutsy IMO.

I'll post some more when I think of them.

Yeah, and to add to that

1. Johnson and Hilfy' spell in the last 30 minutes of day 2 of the Headingley test.
2. Clarke and Haddin partnership in the Aussie 2nd innings at Lord's, we didn't the game, but that was a pretty special counter-attacking partnership.
3. Collingwood' gritty knock at Cardiff, everyone talks about MSP and Jimmy' heroics, but if it hadn't been for him, England won't have had a chance.
4. Siddle' spell to Swann at Cardiff in the 2nd innings was also a pretty intriguing contest.