2005 Ashes: Old Trafford Test Goes Right Down To The Wire - Full Coverage 

Michael Vaughan in the hurdle said "10 years earlier, Australia wouldn't be celebrating a draw" and for me that speaks volumes!

Best £10 I've ever spent! Seriously, just £10 to get in on the final day.

2:14, fielder making absolutely sure that it's a four by kicking the ball into the ropes to get McGrath on strike....oh those were the times...test cricket at its absolute best !!!

0:05 the most intense look on a cricketer's face, I have ever seen. Michael Vaughan. Haha.. You gotta love Ashes.

That's why Test Cricket is most liked forms of Cricket. What a riverly shown by both teams This type of riverly never seen today in Cricket Teams

Just look at the crowd for test cricket 😍

2005's best ashes classic tour ever

Ricky Ponting made 156. One of the best innings in test cricket.

Panter hits an amazing inning...... He was looking awesome! 🔥🔥🔥

In a team made up of superstars and legends, Brett Lee really shone throughout the 2005 Ashes series. Not only with his performances with both bat and ball, but also in the sportsmanship that he showed in every game. I already had a lot of respect for him as a player before that series, but afterwards I'd gained a lot of respect for him as a person. Honestly, as an Englishman who watched every ball of that thrilling series, looking back on it now I honestly think that England won the Ashes on the first morning of the Edgbaston test, when Glenn McGrath injured himself in the warmup. He had ripped through England in the first test at Lord's, but without his metronomic bowling in the second, England manage to eke out an advantage and their confidence just soared from there. What a special series, though. I'll never forget it.

Still remember staying up all night watching Ponting survive. Still the best innings I have ever seen. Simply brilliant.

Why is this in my recommendations after 2 years?

1:21 the way Rickey Ponting swallowed that decision.

By far the best test series ever.

It ain't easy being Geraint Jones when Harmison and Flintoff bowl everywhere except the 3 stumps

Even Billy was upset when ponting gloved it ... Clearly 😂

M lucky to hv watched this live on T.V in my childhood....cricket was its best.....2000 -11 best era of ckt

That was hell of a match

What a match of history of test cricket.

Nothing excites more than a 4th innings 100 to save the test or win the test match. Nowdays not many matches are drawn. Hardly do they go into the 5th day. A draw is more exciting to watch than people thinks

I’ve never, ever seen a bowler field under the lid at short leg

I saw this match live in 2005

Those days Ricky Ponting was dominated over the bowlers. Nowadays, Kohli is exactly as like Ricky..

In this situation need a bowler like waseem akram the super genius or the toe crusher waqar younus both was the real nightmare for the tail enders🤓🤓🤓

Test cricket at its very best.

Bowdens discion the best in test history

How come this video has only 45k views

Why Paul Allotted is not commentating anymore?? He is one of the best.

Respect

That was a spectacular innings by Ricki Ponting

I remember watching this game at mid night , bitting my finger nails for a draw , But when I saw Aussie players cheering after the game as we won the game , I was like what the f--k🤬

Good vid

I know what Vaughan would have been saying in the team huddle at the end... “Look at them celebrating. Celebrating a draw. They’re happy they escaped. They used to know they could beat us. Now the invincibility has gone and they’re CELEBRATING NOT LOSING”. And history would prove he was right. Now they only really consistently win at home. Or by doctoring the ball.

Harmison wasted the deliveries. Had it been a bowler like McGrath instead of him he could have won his team the match

I Love Cricket

That match is impossible to explain to Americans. Play for 5 days and nobody wins, but one team is celebrating.

Sir Billforth of Bowden’s crooked fingers. Whether giving out or signalling, in that rather suggestive manner, a six; not universally appreciated by ‘Los puristacos’.

Harmison just wasted last over. He never had line and length in his career

Don't get me wrong, this is great footage but I've seen it a hundred times. Why doesn't the ECB release recent England footage? I know England are getting battered in Australia but it's still much more relevant than cricket matches that happened nearly 13 years ago...

Channel 4 commentary please

As an Australian fan, and completely aware of how this match fared, I was still disappointed that we were celebrating a draw.. that Australian team was the better team honestly.. they had a bad series, that's all.. but they were much superior.. I don't think they wanted that ashes as much as England did..

On next test match at Trent Bridge England won the match

12th man advice to McGrath. Had England done that Ponting would’ve spat on the dummy out.

Worst Bowling by Harmison!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Extremely poor bowling by Steve harmison. Two down at the leg side Two outside off stump Two straight full tossed deliveries

Ponting not a lot of honour in this man in fact none at all

Steve was so tired

Steven harmison didnt deserve last over.

Warra odi century for michael vaughan 😂😅😊

Drink it in ricky

Literally, I am aghast 😱

Very bad line and length. Harmison should not have been the bowler to bowl the last over.

Poor last over bowling

pretty ordinary bowling attack

Very poor last over.

Mcrath doesn't know how to bat.put yorker will finish him 😂😂😂

Poor bowling

Pointing is a cheat and always has been

worst bowling. why he should not try to bowl yokers and swing balls? he bowl two needless full toss in last over. totally waste.

If Ricky Ponting was handed out a wrong decision too, I would not be bothered. The biggest cheat of modern cricket. All said, it was a very poor last over.