Battle of the Ashes Moments

[vcs]

Bradman's last innings.

This.

 

[GotSpin]

1948 Invincibles tour

Bradmans 334

 

[GIMH]

That overrated hack going for a duck gets my vote

 

[four_or_six]

Bradman

 

[DragonPunk]

Bradman easily.

 

[fredfertang]

Has to be the delivery that gave cricket 99.94 - by a country mile the game's most iconic number involving a decimal point

 

[Prince EWS]

Right, I'm nominating my 4 of my 5.

1 = Flintoff running out Ponting at The Oval
5th Test: England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 20-23, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

2 = Swann bowling out Ponting at Edgbaston
3rd Test: England v Australia at Birmingham, Jul 30-Aug 3, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

3 = Gary Pratt runs out Ricky Ponting at Trent Bridge
4th Test: England v Australia at Nottingham, Aug 25-28, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

4 = Winning the 2005 Ashes
4th Test: England v Australia at Nottingham, Aug 25-28, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

You must really hate Ponting.

 

[Noble One]

Bradman. The entire final innings was such a great moment. The crowd erupting as he walked out to bat, the England players giving three cheers for Bradman and then the resulting wicket. Spine tingling stuff.

 

[G.I.Joe]

The burning of this one particular set of bails, IMO. They even named the series after the event, FFS.

 

[Jarquis]

Am calling it slightly early as we have a runaway winner.

(54)Bradman's Final Innings 10 vs 0 (59)David Hookes hitting Tony Greig for 5 consecutive boundaries.

 

[Jarquis]

(45)Harmison hitting Ponting in the face
1st Test: England v Australia at Lord's, Jul 21-24, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

10.4
Harmison to Ponting, no run, and it is Ponting's turn now! Short ball, Ponting goes for the pull and cops a nasty blow on the grill of the helmet

YouTube - Ponting hit by Steve Harmison bouncer

vs

(55)Terry Alderman tackles a pitch invader..
1st Test: Australia v England at Perth, Nov 12-17, 1982 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com
After being clipper around the ear by a fan, Alderman sets off in pursuit before hauling down the spectator, injuring his shoulder in the process, keeping him out of Test matches for 12 months.
YouTube - Terry Alderman Dislocates his Shoulder

 

[four_or_six]

Voting for the Harmison-Ponting moment.

I'd never seen that clip of the Alderman incident, just heard of it vaguely. That's crazy stuff.

 

[marc71178]

Harmo - showed the 2005 England team weren't going to lie down and take a beating.

 

[Themer]

Harmison.

Set up the hard fought series that was to come.

 

[Burgey]

Alderman.

Preferred it when Harmison hit Flintoff in 06.

And the lout involved in the incident with Alderman - just archetypal Pommie filth really. Actually resembles several dozen CW English contributors*















* "Contribute" in the loosest sense possible, in the way that ants "contribute" to the experience of a picnic.

 

[robelinda]

Its like people had never seen a batsman hit my a bouncer before. Ponting copped one of Srinath in 99/00, and he copped one from Mohammad Sami in 2002 without wearing a helmet either. No big deal. The only thing that Harmison bouncer setup was a bloody good thrashing for England in that first test.

 

[GotSpin]

Its like people had never seen a batsman hit my a bouncer before. Ponting copped one of Srinath in 99/00, and he copped one from Mohammad Sami in 2002 without wearing a helmet either. No big deal. The only thing that Harmison bouncer setup was a bloody good thrashing for England in that first test.

Let the poms have this one...This way I can list all of the embarrassing moments for them after this series

 

[ripper868]

Alderman

 

[Noble One]

I don't find either Ashes moment all that memorable. The Alderman one was a terrible moment that deprived Australia of one of the few good pace-bowlers we had in the 80's. The Ponting hit meant very little in the context of the game, Australia still won. Didn't Langer cop some blows too?

Abstain

 

[fredfertang]

I don't find either Ashes moment all that memorable. The Alderman one was a terrible moment that deprived Australia of one of the few good pace-bowlers we had in the 80's. The Ponting hit meant very little in the context of the game, Australia still won. Didn't Langer cop some blows too?

Abstain

Got some sympathy with this view but there was something about that delivery from Harmison - despite England getting hammered in the match the incident signalled the fact that England's mindset had changed at long last so I will vote for that