Battle of the Ashes Moments

[G.I.Joe]

Have to go with the (alleged) bail burning as it started the whole thing off. Fred loses marks for the too-knowingly posed celeb, but was top banana anyway. Twatty run tho, but.

AWTA.

Bail burning. Set off a precedent for effigy burning, IMO

 

[Uppercut]

Well, we might end it right here and give it to the burning of the bails, right?

I totally understand it was a seminal moment that signified the start of the contest, but it's the cricket that makes it memorable for me. Each to their own, obviously.

Dunno, the epic folklore really floats my boat. Going for bail burning here too.

 

[GIMH]

Freddie

I cracked the beers open at that point. ****ing special.

 

[Jarquis]

(1)Flintoff Running Out Ponting 4 vs 9 (68)The Burning of the Bails and Death of English Cricket

Popular battle that one.

 

[Jarquis]

Battle #4

(9)Steve Waugh's Twin Centuries
3rd Test: England v Australia at Manchester, Jul 3-7, 1997 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

vs

(62)Glenn McGrath Standing on a Cricket Ball
2nd Test: England v Australia at Birmingham, Aug 4-7, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

 

[marc71178]

McGrath

 

[GIMH]

Mcgrath

 

[Chris.14]

As much as I hated it, the McGrath moment is the only one of those two that I remember, so I guess I'll go for that one.

 

[Burgey]

Steve Waugh. And Chris aside (welcome BTW mate) I notice the filth barracking for one of our blokes getting hurt. So, so typical. You lot know that if he doesn't tread on that ball you'd have been two-nil down and wouldn't have won a test all summer.

****s.

 

[GotSpin]

Steve Waugh

 

[andyc]

Waugh

 

[zaremba]

In the interests of fair play I'll say Waugh's twin hundreds

Edit: what am I talking about? McGrath obviously

 

[morgieb]

McGrath, even as a Crim. Changed the Ashes just then imo.

 

[DragonPunk]

Waugh's twin centuries.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Waugh's twin centuries. Made Taylor look good.

 

[Somerset]

McGrath.

 

[G.I.Joe]

McGrath.

 

[Zinzan]

Big Glenn for mine

 

[Spark]

Steve Waugh. And Chris aside (welcome BTW mate) I notice the filth barracking for one of our blokes getting hurt. So, so typical. You lot know that if he doesn't tread on that ball you'd have been two-nil down and wouldn't have won a test all summer.

****s.

That's exactly why my vote goes to McGrath

Incalculable impact.

 

[four_or_six]

Steve Waugh. And Chris aside (welcome BTW mate) I notice the filth barracking for one of our blokes getting hurt. So, so typical. You lot know that if he doesn't tread on that ball you'd have been two-nil down and wouldn't have won a test all summer.

****s.

Not really our fault you came to play a five-test series with only two half-decent bowlers.