Comments on: Ashes 2005 3rd Test at Old Trafford

By: t

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:50:36 +0000

i feel that i should point out at this point, i had a spare ticket for the day after the day it rained, i politely offered it to king cricket… who informed me at about 9am that he was far too hung over to attend… i sold the ticket at face value, i later found out that i could have got something close to 5 times that amount for it.. it was however a good day, except my mate stan was a bit ’round shy’. i think we went for a curry afterwards, and then missed the last train home.

By: Jo Fitz

Jo Fitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:52:34 +0000

Boom Boom!!

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:07:22 +0000

Oh Jo, if only you had been doing a vasectomy.

By: Ged Ladd

Ged Ladd — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:00:02 +0000

Daisy and I had booked a day’s leave on that Monday (as we are wont to do for Day 5s).

We did some comparatively forgettable things earlier in the day, in between picking up the radio commentary, and then hunkered down to watch the last 40 overs or so of the match.

Daisy is more optimistic than me and was convinced that England were on top in the series and would stay on top.

“You don’t understand”, I said, “we have to win to get the Ashes, a drawn series is no good to us. That was our chance and we’ve blown it”.

“We’ll see”, said she.

By: Jo Fitz

Jo Fitz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:45:21 +0000

As this match finished on a Monday I was in theatre, with me anaesthetising for my friend Jane (a surgeon).
We were lucky that we were in the one theatre where the Radio 4 reception was ok.
I will always associate the “and now we come down to the last ball” commentary with doing a hysterectomy

By: sam

sam — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:04:17 +0000

i watched the highlights of the last day of this in a sports bar in edinburgh.

i was with a friend and we were nail-biting and jumping up and down all the way through.

when it ended he confessed that he already knew it had been a draw and he was pretending for me.

it was the nicest thing anyone has ever done for anyone ever.

By: Benno

Benno — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:55:49 +0000

I thought we’d blown it after we drew this test………ever the pessimist.