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7 incidents tagged

🏏Serious

Jack Leach Survives LBW Appeal — Headingley 2019

England vs Australia

22-25 August 2019

During Ben Stokes' miraculous Headingley chase, Jack Leach survived an LBW appeal that was given 'umpire's call' on review, allowing the legendary partnership to continue.

#ashes#headingley#ben stokes
🏏Moderate

Nathan Lyon's Missed Stumping — Ashes 2019 Headingley

England vs Australia

25 August 2019

Nathan Lyon dropped a simple chance to run out Ben Stokes at Headingley, and earlier Tim Paine missed a stumping chance that would have ended England's miraculous chase.

#lyon#burns#stokes
Serious

Ben Stokes at Headingley 2019 — The Greatest Ashes Rescue

England vs Australia

2019-08-25

England needed 73 off the last 17 overs with one wicket remaining. Ben Stokes scored 135 not out, hitting the winning four off Pat Cummins to give England a 1-wicket victory — the most remarkable Ashes run chase since Botham's Leeds 1981.

#ben-stokes#headingley#ashes
🏏Mild

Five-Run Penalty Debate — England vs Sri Lanka 2014

England vs Sri Lanka

June 2014

A controversial five-run penalty was awarded during an England-Sri Lanka Test, sparking debate about when and how penalty runs should be applied.

#five runs#penalty#overthrow
Serious

Andrew Flintoff's 2005 Ashes — The Greatest All-Round Series Performance

England vs Australia

2005-09-12

Andrew Flintoff made 402 runs and took 24 wickets in the 2005 Ashes — joint Man of the Series with Shane Warne — in a sustained all-round performance that defined the series and England's first Ashes win in 18 years.

#andrew-flintoff#2005-ashes#england
🥊Serious

Waqar Younis Destroys Graeme Hick — Reversing English Batsmen, 1992

England vs Pakistan

July 1992

Waqar Younis's brutal reverse-swing yorker campaign against English batsmen in the 1992 series — particularly Graeme Hick — was one of cricket's most devastating bowling attacks. Hick was repeatedly bowled or LBW as Waqar's late-swinging yorkers crashed into the stumps and toes, leaving England batsmen baffled and bruised.

#waqar younis#graeme hick#headingley
Serious

Don Bradman's 334 at Headingley — The Previous World Record

Australia vs England

1930-07-11

Don Bradman made 334 against England at Headingley in 1930 — the world record at the time, set by a 22-year-old who had already scored 131 and 254 in his previous two Tests of the series — at the peak of the most extraordinary run of batting form cricket has ever seen.

#don-bradman#334#headingley