Battle of the Ashes Moments

[GIMH]

Adelaide deserves to win, but I can never bring myself to vote for it, it made me feel sick

Swann bowling Chimpy on the other hand saw me jump up, then promptly trip over a wire. Good times.

 

[King Pietersen]

Swanneh. Was watching that clip before reading this thread, and it was a jaffer. The drift and turn had Ponting beat all ends up. Superb bowling from Swann.

 

[MW1304]

Obviously has to be the Aussie comeback, even though i don't remember it.

 

[pasag]

Coming in a bit late, but is:

Laker's 19/90
Trumper's 102
"We'll get 'em in singles"
"Fine bloody way to start a series"
Glenn McGrath's catch at Adelaide
Harmison's first ball wide
Grace vs Spofforth
Eddie Paynter's knock from the hospital bed
Frank Tyson 7/27

in the battle? Can't find a list.

 

[Jarquis]

Some are, some aren't.

 

[pasag]

Adelaide is not just my favourite Ashes moment, or my favourite cricketing moment. It's my favourite sporting moment. Jumped up and down like a little girl as Hussey hit the winning runs, itbt.

 

[GIMH]

Adelaide is not just my favourite Ashes moment, or my favourite cricketing moment. It's my favourite sporting moment. Jumped up and down like a little girl as Hussey hit the winning runs, itbt.

redundancy surely

 

[zaremba]

By my reckoning the following aren't currently included:

Trumper's 102
"We'll get 'em in singles"
"Fine bloody way to start a series"
Glenn McGrath's catch at Adelaide
Eddie Paynter's knock from the hospital bed

Grace vs Spofforth features, sort of: "this thing can be done"

Would be good to include all this lot imho

Edit: not sure about Tyson

 

[Jarquis]

Yeah, will see if I can fiddle it to fit them in.

We had 68 noms, so 28 battles of 2 and 4 battles of 3.
So, 73 noms = 23 battles of two, 9 battles of 3. Sorted.

Slight problem in that I have NFI what Trumper's 102 is? 104 perhaps?

Edit : ffs, including Tyson is 74.
22 rounds of 2, 10 rounds of 3.

 

[zaremba]

FWIW, Eddie Paynter's Ashes average (84) is almost the same as Don Bradman's (87). And in adversity, Sir Eddie rose from his hospital bed, in sharp contrast to Bradman backing away from bouncers like a feeble wimp

 

[fredfertang]

I blame Len Hutton - had oor Eddie not missed out on that road at the Oval in '38 he'd have averaged more than Bradman

 

[pasag]

Slight problem in that I have NFI what Trumper's 102 is? 104 perhaps?

Yeah sorry, his 104, from 1902. Certainly one of the greatest Ashes innings ever.

 

[GIMH]

So great that you couldn't even remember how many he scored you useless ****ing ****

 

[pasag]

So great that you couldn't even remember how many he scored you useless ****ing ****

Hard to remember all the great Aussie innings, there are so many of them. Great Pom innings you can count on one (animated) hand however.

 

[GIMH]

The only reason you handbag-thieving cretins play good innings is because everytime a bowler combats your 'batsmen' you get the rules changed to stop it happening again! Oh no, don't bowl short! Oh no, don't SPIT ON THE BALL!!! Substitute fielders can't run me out, I'm in the PG Tips adverts!

get ****ed

 

[zaremba]

 

[Burgey]

Adelaide.

 

[Uppercut]

Adelaide is probably my favourite Ashes moment of those I can remember. Mainly due to my raging Warne-love.

 

[GIMH]

Always knew you were a ****

 

[andyc]

Adelaide. Remember sneaking in to an empty classroom between periods at school and at lunch time to keep watching it.