The 2021-22 Ashes series isn't the first time England has come unstuck in Adelaide, as those who saw the remarkable match of 2006-07 can attest. 🇦🇺🏴🏏 9WWOS Ashes Cricket
The Adelaide Test of 2006-07 seemed headed for a draw after four days, instead it turned into one of the most remarkable matches of a generation.
Australia needed 168 to win, and Mike Hussey's 61 not out from 66 balls saw the home side to victory.Peter Siddle could not have dreamed up a better way to celebrate his 26th birthday. The Victorian paceman became the first Aussie to take an Ashes hat-trick since Shane Warne in 1994, 16 years earlier.
England went on to win the series 2-1 - making that draw vital in the series result - and took the Ashes back after being whitewashed Down Under in 2006-07.By the time the fourth Test rolled around in the 2005 Ashes, the series was already an all-timer. "I'd actually mentioned it to the match referee before the first Test that we had concerns about how long the England substitutes stay on the field for and who their substitutes were.
"If I'd been dismissed for nought and walked off, I probably would've told everyone I was done ," Gilchrist said years later.England had come into the 2013 Ashes series as favourites having retained the urn just months earlier at home. "Get ready for a broken f-----ng arm," Clarke told Anderson, who soon perished after managing to glove a Johnson short delivery right back to the bowler, giving Australia a 381-run win and all the momentum.After England had stunned Australia during the epic 2005 Ashes, the hype was at its highest ahead of the return series down under.
Archer missed the opening Test of the series where Smith had destroyed England's attack, and was touted as the answer to Australia's dynamo. "My first reaction was that it hit the helmet, but a few seconds after he went down, everyone was like, 'Oh no'," Archer told talkSPORT in 2020. In the end it was a Ponting masterclass which salvaged a draw for the tourists. Australia made it to stumps with only one wicket to spare, Ponting denying England victory by facing 275 balls for his 156 runs.The man who Australia must conquer this summer - Joe Root - began his torment of the enemy from Down Under eight years ago. Root was only six games into his Test cricket career when he first appeared in the Ashes, debuting with 30 at Nottingham in 2013.
By the end of it everyone knew who he was, and what he was about. England held a 2-1 series lead heading into the last match at The Oval. The stakes were monumentally high. If Australia won, they would retain the urn. "It was an amazing feeling... it was a bit of a daze up until Joe Root walked off at the end of the day," Broad said later. "I never expected to be having a cup of tea watching Alastair Cook walk out to bat pre-lunch having bowled."It was one of the closest Ashes matches ever decided, amid one of the greatest series the contest has seen. Australia almost pulled off an incredible victory at Edgbaston but fell agonisingly short.
"I said, 'mate, this is embarrassing… you've lost, it's cricket, nobody cares, the trophy's , f***ing get over it – it really does not matter'," Flintoff said in a different recollection in 2018.It's now famously referred to as the Ball of the Century, the Gatting Ball, or simply... The Ball. It's also without doubt the most viewed piece of Ashes vision in the contest's history, and the best known single delivery in cricket.
Waugh had scored only one century in his last 24 Test innings, and was fighting to save his career. At the SCG, he played his way to be on 98 at the end of day two. On the second last ball before stumps, Adam Gilchrist hit a single to put his skipper on strike. The Poms stacked the leg-side boundary, expecting Waugh to play a slog sweep against spin bowler Richard Dawson.
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