Five Extraordinary First Balls In Ashes History

England‘s Rory Burns has an undesirable place within the report books after changing into solely the second batsman to be out to the first ball of an Ashes collection. Let's have a look at 5 mem

4) After Harmison terrorised the Australia prime order in 2005, the rematch simply over a yr later was extremely anticipated with England having excessive hopes of an elusive collection win “Down Under”.

Harmison, so damaging at Lord’s, once more bowled the first ball to Langer. Again Langer didn’t get close to it.

The solely one that did was Andrew Flintoff — standing at second slip.

Harmison’s widest of wides was swiftly mocked because the worst ball to open an Ashes collection and a brittle England’s confidence by no means recovered as they fell to a humiliating 5-0 defeat.