Simon Jones felt like an imposter in a hyperbaric chamber with cancer patients, just to save his foot for the Ashes.
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A memory-rich look back at the Oval and the series that still defines the Ashes for many listeners.
The episode closes out the 2005 Ashes by circling back to the Oval and to the feeling of England lifting the urn. It works best when it moves cleanly between match detail and the larger mood around the series: the commentary box, the newspaper attention, and the sense that…
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Press play if you want the Oval Test and the Ashes finale told by the two voices who lived it from the commentary box.
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