83-581: Honours and Achievements Video Games Brian Lara Cricket is a cricket video game, the first in the Brian Lara Cricket series. It is endorsed by Brian Lara . Brian Lara Cricket was released on the PC in 1994 for DOS and Sega Mega Drive and Amiga in 1995 by Codemasters . The game was also rereleased in 1999 under the Codemaster Classics brand for Windows. It
166-478: A ball from Flintoff. Australia closed on 264/7, still 180 in arrears, but England probably felt that they missed several opportunities to put the game beyond their opponents. Day 4 Having been hampered by a rain-shortened day three, the Australians were ready to put more wood to the ball on day four, and they did not disappoint. Warne continued his march towards his maiden Test century before holing out with
249-419: A cameo of 39 before a complete misjudgement led him to shoulder arms to a Simon Jones delivery which reverse-swung back into his off stump, sending it cartwheeling backwards. At 263/6, with 33 overs left to be bowled and 160 runs still required, Australia changed their batting order; instead of sending out the more accomplished and aggressive Warne, the more obdurate and defensively minded Jason Gillespie came to
332-632: A chase of 129, after England enforced the follow-on after gaining a lead of 259 on first innings . The fifth and final Test started on 8 September, at the Oval in London. It entered its final day with England batting in their second innings, 40 runs ahead with nine wickets in hand. Australia needed a win to force a 2–2 series draw and retain the Ashes; any other result would give the Ashes to England and end 16 years and eight series of Australian dominance. After
415-483: A day of fluctuating fortunes, England established a lead of 341 after Kevin Pietersen 's maiden century of 158 runs, and Australia batted for one over before the teams went off for bad light, and the match was declared a draw, ensuring the return of the Ashes to England. Collingwood was added on 1 August for the second Test, but sent back to his county on 3 August. An injury to Simon Jones saw Anderson come into
498-409: A difficult chance at third man to remove Kasprowicz with 15 left to get. With Australia edging towards victory, taking the pragmatic and sensible approach of preferring singles to risky boundaries, England were now bowling aggressive short balls at the tail-enders, hoping for short catches or to surprise the batters with yorkers. With four runs needed to win, Lee drove Harmison's attempted yorker towards
581-411: A first-innings lead. Hoggard departed for a 16-ball duck, cutting a delivery from Warne to Hayden in the slips. Pietersen now started to attack, taking 21 runs off seven deliveries before he was out caught by Martyn, a diving catch just inside the boundary, and England were nine down for 122, still trailing by 68. The English 10th wicket pairing of Simon Jones and Harmison added 33 after that, a stand that
664-550: A four with his second ball, before facing 24 dot balls in the next three-quarters of an hour. Meanwhile, wickets fell at the other end, as Trescothick departed for 44, edging a straight ball from Warne to first slip after having taken him for 10 in the previous over, and Bell was out LBW to a ball that did not turn. Three overs later, Vaughan was bowled cleanly by Lee and Flintoff gave a catch to Gilchrist, England were five down for 119, and though Pietersen once again put on more than 40 runs with Geraint Jones, England still needed 301 for
747-422: A further six overs were bowled later on before yet more rain meant that play was abandoned for the day. Australia had the better of the short day's play, adding 50 runs without loss to pass the follow-on target, although Warne was lucky to survive on two occasions thanks to errors by Geraint Jones: with Warne on 55, Jones missed a relatively straightforward stumping opportunity, and on 68 he was dropped after edging
830-455: A hook shot to a well-placed Giles at 90. Simon Jones mopped up the other two wickets to bowl Australia out for 302, Jones finishing the innings with a career best figures of 6/53. Knowing that scoring runs quickly was the only chance they had at winning the match with so much of the previous day's play washed out, England took the fight to the Australians in their second innings. The opening partnership of Strauss and Trescothick scored 26 before
913-524: A maiden over first up to Justin Langer, and Matthew Hayden drove Harmison's new-ball partner Hoggard to short mid-off for a golden duck – the first of Hayden's Test career. Ponting and Langer then hit runs just as quickly as England had done, before the umpire 's finger went up twice more before lunch; Ponting swept a shot off Ashley Giles to the opposing captain Vaughan for 61, and Martyn was run out taking
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#1732797520836996-401: A part in getting Australia past 100, forging innings in the 20s, but Flintoff had Gilchrist for 26 before Warne and Katich added 49 for the seventh wicket. Harmison, coming back for a second spell, was wicketless in his first two overs but after drinks he took four wickets for seven runs in 2.2 overs as Australia were all out for 190. He finished with five wickets for 43 runs. Glenn McGrath was
1079-481: A pull shot to Harmison at square-leg for 40 off the bowling of Andrew Flintoff , whose first over in Ashes cricket was a wicket maiden. In the next over, Simon Jones was brought on, he got an immediate reward, with Damien Martyn caught behind for 2, and in the penultimate over before lunch Michael Clarke was leg before wicket (lbw) to Jones, leaving Australia five down after the first session of play. Adam Gilchrist , Simon Katich and Shane Warne all played
1162-442: A series loss to New Zealand leaving them bottom of the unofficial Wisden Cricketers' Almanack rankings. However, since the previous series in 2002–03, England had improved on their fifth place in the official rankings, and were second before this series. Australia were still top-ranked, but England had won 14 and drawn three of their 18 previous Test matches since March 2004, and had won six successive series. Nonetheless, before
1245-435: A single for 20, again by Vaughan. Langer and Clarke continued after lunch in the same vein, hitting 76 runs in an hour and a half, but a couple of wickets within five overs took Australia to 208/5, needing 199 for the last five wickets for parity. The partnership between Langer and Adam Gilchrist saw them to tea with no further loss. The pair looked to close England's lead and batted unbeaten after tea for eight overs, but again
1328-633: A standing ovation from the Old Trafford faithful. After naming an unchanged line-up, England were immediately faced by the pairing of Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee. There were doubts about whether they could play before the match started, because of the injuries they had sustained earlier, but they both passed fitness tests. Though Andrew Strauss succumbed in the 10th over, England lost no further wickets before lunch, and only one more before tea. There were many missed opportunities for Australia, who dropped Trescothick, Michael Vaughan (twice) and Ian Bell on
1411-499: A tiny edge to Gilchrist. England's last recognised batting pair, between Flintoff and wicket-keeper Geraint Jones, saw England to lunch, but Flintoff had suffered an injury to his left shoulder and looked in obvious pain, and Jones departed shortly after lunch. Giles lasted longer, batting through 45 minutes before he was caught by Hayden, and Harmison faced one delivery to leave England at 131/9. Simon Jones and Flintoff carried on, however. Jones managed 12 runs in his 42-minute stay at
1494-446: A well-deserved 65. Although wickets continued to fall, England were more concerned about scoring quickly than staying at the crease. Trescothick, Strauss and Bell all scored with a strike rate of over 63, and Geraint Jones added 27 runs off just 12 balls before England declared on 280/6 to give them a spell at Australia in the evening and a chance of winning the match the next day. McGrath recorded another five-wicket haul in an innings, but
1577-545: A year later in 1995 for the Mega Drive and Amiga systems. Also known as Lara '96 , this game is a new version of Brian Lara Cricket on the Mega Drive with updated player names and statistics. It is the final game in the series to be developed by Audiogenic and was published by Codemasters in 1996. Released in 1999, this was the first 3D accelerated game in the series. It was the first fifth generation game in
1660-561: Is a series of six cricket video games that are endorsed by the West Indian cricketer Brian Lara and published by Codemasters . As of 2007, there are six games in the Brian Lara Cricket series on eight video game systems, spanning thirteen years. Brian Lara Cricket is the first game in the series to be endorsed by Brian Lara . It was developed by Audiogenic and published by Codemasters in 1994 for DOS and then
1743-586: The Amiga charts. A PC version followed a year later. In 1994 Audiogenic identified an opportunity to capitalise on the success of Brian Lara , who had broken two long-standing world records, and rebranded World Class Cricket game as Brian Lara Cricket , initially for the DOS but also later for the Amiga . A year later Audiogenic licensed Brian Lara Cricket for the Sega Mega Drive to Codemasters . It
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#17327975208361826-467: The C64 computer system. The game sold well and received high ratings, and so Audiogenic followed it up with Graham Gooch's All Star Cricket in 1987. The game that was to become Graham Gooch World Class Cricket was scheduled to be released for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991, but development was delayed to ensure quality. When it did eventually appear in 1993 it was a huge success, reaching No.1 in
1909-805: The PlayStation 2 console, released on 21 July to coincide with the start of the 2005 Ashes series. The game received high ratings. Off the back of this success, Codemasters has developed Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 which was released in March 2007, to coincide with the Cricket World Cup . Brian Lara Pressure Play followed in August for the PSP , reaching No.1 in its first week on release. With Brian Lara's retirement from professional cricket in 2007 Codemasters moved away from using Lara in
1992-587: The not out batter, ending with 10 runs, and he also opened the bowling with Brett Lee . England batted for six overs until tea without losing a wicket, scoring 10 runs, but McGrath, who bowled his usual accurate line and length, reaped the rewards after tea. Marcus Trescothick fell first ball after tea, edging to slip to become McGrath's 500th victim in Test cricket, and Strauss fell in similar fashion three balls later. Michael Vaughan and Ian Bell survived six overs, adding seven runs before McGrath had them bowled in
2075-445: The 12th over, they had racked up 47 for no loss, and were well on track until Vaughan brought Flintoff on to bowl. The all-rounder proceeded to bowl the over of the series; although he failed to complete the hat-trick he was on from the previous innings, with his second ball he bowled Langer with a leg cutter. His third delivery was narrowly turned down for lbw, the fourth found Ponting's edge but failed to carry to slip, an lbw appeal on
2158-469: The 13th and 15th over respectively. With Flintoff bowled by McGrath in the 17th, and England had lost five wickets for 21 runs, with five of their top six batters out in single figures. However, Kevin Pietersen and Geraint Jones batted together to make England's highest partnership of the innings, adding 58 and, according to the BBC report, "treating Jason Gillespie with some disdain". A short ball from Lee
2241-479: The BBC saw it as "advantage Australia". Ricky Ponting won the toss and chose to bat, and Steve Harmison shook up the opening batters early on, hitting the Australians with bouncers; the second ball of the match hit Justin Langer on the elbow but he went on to make 40 and top score for Australia. The pitch offered bounce and swing from the start, while Matthew Hoggard got a ball on line to swing between Matthew Hayden 's bat and pad and into his off stump. Hayden
2324-609: The England bowlers intervened, this time in the shape of Simon Jones, whose reverse swing caused the Australian middle and lower order a great deal of problems, and he was rewarded for his efforts when he trapped Langer with a yorker – gone for 82, which was to be Australia's highest score in the innings. Australia's last four, which now included Kasprowicz, who had a batting average 10 runs higher than McGrath, were nevertheless all dismissed for single-figure scores, Flintoff taking
2407-496: The First Test some Australians, including fast bowler Glenn McGrath , were suggesting that a 5–0 win in the series for Australia was a serious possibility. On the day after the series it was "hailed as the most thrilling series ever". Three matches in particular were very closely fought, with one match decided by a two-run margin, one match drawn with only one wicket remaining, and one match won by three wickets. The outcome of
2490-430: The ball completely to be bowled. Mark Nicholas , in live commentary, described the delivery as "...one of the great balls. Given the moment, given the batsman and given the match, that is a staggering gamble that has paid off for Harmison. He bowled it perfectly." The third day saw a total of 17 wickets fall, and England needed just two wickets for victory, while Australia still needed 107 runs. England were said to be "on
2573-421: The brink of...victory", but Australia came back thanks to two partnerships worth more than 40 to take themselves within three runs of a 2–0 series lead. First, Warne and Lee added 45 for the ninth wicket, before Warne trod on his own stumps after a full Flintoff ball and was out hit wicket . Kasprowicz came in and supported Lee well, fending off aggressive bowling from Flintoff and Harmison, and Simon Jones dropped
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2656-405: The closest since Australia's dominance began in 1989. Since 1989, when Australia started their winning Ashes streak, England had lost by more than one match in all but one of the series played, that of 1997. During that period, Australia were the pre-eminent side in the world, while England had dropped from being the top-rated in 1981 to sixth for much of the 1990s, reaching a low point in 1999 with
2739-517: The contest was not decided until the last day of the series. Australia won the first Test comfortably, but in the second Test at Edgbaston , considered to be one of the greatest of all time, England levelled the series with a two-run victory, the narrowest win in Ashes history. The third Test ended in a draw (with England one wicket away from a win), and England won the fourth Test in Nottingham (Trent Bridge) by three wickets, losing seven men in
2822-519: The context of the match, as the momentum gradually swung in Australia's direction. At one point, Australia racked up runs at such a rate that a win became a real possibility, but Flintoff accounted for the dismissals of Hayden, Katich and Gilchrist, while Harmison got a favourable lbw decision to dismiss Martyn, leaving Australia's middle order in tatters and Ponting holding his side's innings together at 182/5. Michael Clarke provided stouter resistance in
2905-409: The cover-point boundary, where it was fielded; it was timed so well that had Lee placed it five yards either side of the fielder's initial position, it would have likely won Australia the match. The batters crossed for a single, leaving three runs to win with the weaker batter Kasprowicz on strike. Harmison delivered another short ball, which Kasprowicz fended and Geraint Jones took an athletic catch down
2988-442: The crease while Flintoff took Lee for 33 off the 28 balls he faced from the Australian paceman. Flintoff also took runs off Kasprowicz, with his third over yielding 20 runs for England, including a couple of no-balls. At one point during Flintoff's innings, Ponting had nine men on the boundary, with only the bowler and wicket-keeper inside the circle. However, Flintoff hit a six over them, too, and another of his sixes landed on top of
3071-402: The day out with Warne finishing on 45 not out. The day finished with Australia on 214/7, 230 behind and needing another 31 runs to avoid a follow-on . The score was adjusted from 210 overnight owing to one of the umpires failing to signal four byes . Day 3 Rain delayed the start of play until 16:00 BST, and even then only eight overs were possible before play was again suspended, although
3154-421: The day, when England held a lead of 124 runs, with nine wickets in hand. Australia continued their new-found momentum at the start of day 3, as Lee took three wickets in the first 12 minutes of play: Trescothick slashed a wide delivery and got an edge to the keeper, captain Vaughan got his third single-figure score in the series as he failed to cover his stumps to a straight delivery, and Hoggard edged to Hayden in
3237-624: The end of the day. The Australian lead was still 314, twice England's first innings total and then some, and Katich was still batting, not out on 10. Four overs into the morning, specialist spin bowler Giles was involved in a dismissal for the only time in the match, having Lee run out for 8. However, Gillespie batted for an hour and 15 minutes, and took part in a 52-run stand with the recognised batter, Katich before Simon Jones got his reward with an away-swinger that crashed into Gillespie's off stump, after having three catches dropped. The last-wicket partnership rubbed it in with 43 more runs before Katich
3320-468: The fifth was also turned down, and his sixth, which Ponting left outside the off stump, was a no-ball, allowing him an extra delivery. Flintoff produced another leg cutter, Ponting edged his drive and was out caught behind. Including the previous innings, Flintoff had taken four wickets in nine balls. But more importantly, Australia had been reduced from 47/0 to 48/2. Hayden kept going, and his dismissal came in an over where Australia had taken eight runs from
3403-405: The final day to win from a possible 98 overs, while England still needed to take all 10 Australian second innings wickets. Day 5 Given the performances of the England bowling attack at Edgbaston and in the first innings of this match, English hopes of a win were high. Queues began at 06:00 and by 08:40, more than two hours before the first ball was due to be bowled, the Old Trafford staff closed
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3486-519: The first ball of Simon Jones' spell to Geraint Jones. This brought in Michael Clarke who had been recuperating at the team hotel after damaging his back on the first day. Owing to this injury, Clarke needed Hayden to act as a runner. Warne made inroads with the bat, just as at Edgbaston four days previously, but Clarke only managed to add seven runs before being deceived by a reverse-swinging delivery from Simon Jones. Warne and Jason Gillespie saw
3569-408: The first day, which helped Trescothick and Vaughan to get a partnership of 137 before Trescothick was dismissed after lunch. Vaughan powered on, making his hundred after 206 minutes to become the first man in the series to get a century. Having made 166 runs, an innings described as "majestic", Vaughan eventually hit Simon Katich straight to McGrath at the boundary, but had still made what was to be
3652-499: The first four balls; however, Simon Jones got the last laugh on Hayden, only to later be reprimanded and fined by the International Cricket Council for his celebrations. England kept on the pressure, getting three more wickets before the scheduled close of play: Giles dismissed Katich and Gilchrist, and an in-swinging ball from Flintoff took care of Gillespie, who was trapped lbw. An extra half-hour of play
3735-622: The first team to hit 400 runs in a first day of Test cricket against Australia since 1938 . The English scored at a pace above four an over in their opening partnership between Marcus Trescothick, who hit nine boundaries off Brett Lee, and Andrew Strauss, who scored freely off Jason Gillespie and Kasprowicz. Their 112-run partnership was the highest by England in the series thus far; the Australians had only surpassed that once, through Damien Martyn and Michael Clarke's 155 at Lord's. Although Warne produced an outstanding delivery to dismiss Strauss bowled for 48, to add to Australia's woes, Trescothick
3818-505: The game are digitised . The game included the NVR save feature which allowed games to be stored using a battery to supply power to the memory inside the cartridge . It also claims to have hundreds of frames of animation for each sprite . This sports game -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brian Lara Cricket (series) Honours and Achievements Video Games Brian Lara Cricket
3901-402: The game). The player can choose to play either a one-day game or a Test match and choose from all the major cricketing nations to play as or against. There are three main types of bowling in the game fast , spin and swing . Fielding can be manual or automatic. Brian Lara Cricket has pseudo-3D graphics which appears to make the perspective change when playing the game. The sound effects in
3984-477: The gates to the stadium. 20,000 people were left disappointed in addition to the 23,000-capacity crowd. The day started poorly for them with Justin Langer falling for 14 on the seventh ball of the day, nicking a ball delivered by Hoggard behind to Geraint Jones. Australia captain Ricky Ponting was brought to the crease to steady the ship, and he narrowly survived being run out early on. This proved crucial in
4067-403: The highest individual score in the series. Together with Vaughan, Australia were also faced with a more defiant Bell, who had not passed 25 in his four first innings in the series, but made 59 before the day ended. Picking up where Vaughan left off, Bell, Kevin Pietersen and nightwatchman Matthew Hoggard closed out the day for England with the scoreboard reading 341/5, with Lee adding two wickets to
4150-410: The last five wickets, which would mean five partnerships higher than England had managed all match. Rain frustrated both Australia and neutral fans who wanted to see cricket played on the morning of the fourth day, but at 15:45 BST the rain relented and the covers were taken off. Then, it took 10 overs for Australia to wrap up England's innings, McGrath taking four of the five wickets required and Warne
4233-508: The last two men lbw with the last two balls, although there was some argument about whether the first dismissal, that of Gillespie, should have been given. Meanwhile, Giles' return of 3/78, including Ponting, Clarke and Warne, was to be his best bowling figures all series. England began their second innings with a 99-run lead and looked to continue their aggressive batting intent to build their lead before stumps on day 2. After Trescothick and Strauss had hit five boundaries in six overs and taken
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#17327975208364316-402: The last; Giles, Hoggard, Harmison and Simon Jones were all dismissed for ducks, and England could only cut 24 runs off Australia's eventual win margin of 239. Twenty-two of those fourth-day runs came from Pietersen who was left stranded on an unbeaten 64 to have a Test batting average of 121 after his first match. The psychological battles before the match included many Australian statements to
4399-448: The leg side. England appealed, and Kasprowicz was given out caught by Bowden. Subsequent replays suggested that the ball contacted Kasprowicz's glove while not in contact with the bat handle and that he should have been given not out, but England were nonetheless declared victors – if in almost the narrowest way possible – and the series was drawn level with three matches left. After a short engagement with his team in victory celebrations,
4482-429: The lunch interval, but Trescothick played on to be bowled after scoring 41, giving McGrath his first wicket of the match. Strauss, however, compiled a fine century, his sixth from just 17 matches, scoring 106 before getting out caught. Gilchrist missed two stumping opportunities to remove Bell and failing to hold a catch to remove Flintoff. Bell capitalised on Gilchrist's errors, partnering Strauss for 28 overs and recording
4565-475: The morning session; the afternoon yielded 157. Kevin Pietersen, in his second Test match, hit ten fours and one six, and made a 103-run partnership in 105 balls with Andrew Flintoff. Flintoff scored 68 off 62 balls, and Lee's 18 balls of the afternoon session were taken for 26 runs, including two sixes. Lee bowled just 17 overs in England's first innings, and conceded 111 runs, but got the wicket of Pietersen, who pulled to Simon Katich for 71 off 76 balls, and with
4648-409: The partnership was allowed to last for 34.3 overs, with 155 runs being scored. Flintoff was smashed to all corners, with 84 runs being scored off him in his 19 second-day overs, but in the last 10 overs England came back to take wickets. Started by an inside-edge from Clarke off Hoggard, which left Australia's 24-year-old batter bowled for 91, and Australia lost a further three wickets for 24 runs before
4731-461: The player to attempt to hit the ball in any direction. In India, it was released as Yuvraj Singh International Cricket 2007 . It was also the second game in the Ricky Ponting international series. Brian Lara Pressure Play is a PSP -only version of the game, released in 2007. In 1985, Michael McLean at Audiogenic , a subsidiary of Supersoft wrote Graham Gooch's Test Cricket for
4814-417: The press about how the pitch "played into [their] hands", that England had been "spending too much time talking", and that their top order had been "taking bad options". An hour before the first ball was bowled, Australian seam bowler Glenn McGrath tore the ligaments in his ankle after treading on a stray cricket ball while playing rugby during a pre-match warm-up. Michael Kasprowicz took McGrath's place in
4897-424: The previous game, it was shipped during the 2007 Cricket World Cup . The game was available for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 consoles, as well as for Windows . This version includes many graphical as well as gameplay improvements. The Xbox 360 version is the first console port in the series to be in high definition widescreen . Gameplay improvements include analogue direction control when batting, this allows
4980-543: The remaining two wickets for just a further 10 runs, bowling England out for a score of 444, with McGrath finishing on his worst-ever Test figures of 0/86. Australia started their innings tentatively with Hoggard dropping a low catch from Matthew Hayden off his own bowling. Just before tea Australia lost their first wicket with Hayden out caught at short leg from Ashley Giles first over. After tea Australia lost another couple of wickets, Ricky Ponting caught for seven and Hayden given out lbw for 34. Gilchrist put on 30 before edging
5063-624: The score on 342/7 with 24 scheduled overs remaining in the day. Steve Harmison then smacked two fours and a six in a 15-minute cameo worth 17 runs, and Simon Jones stuck around with Matthew Hoggard for a last-wicket partnership of 32, Jones making 19 not out. Shane Warne finally got the better of Hoggard, to end with four wickets for 116, but by that time, England had ended their innings on 407 all out in just under 80 overs. Just as Australia's opening batters walked out and prepared for their innings, rain began to fall on Edgbaston and play had to be stopped. England's bowlers started well when Harmison bowled
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#17327975208365146-582: The second innings total to 25 for 0, Ponting brought on Warne in the seventh over. Warne broke through with his second ball of the innings with arguably one of the best deliveries of the series by any bowler. Strauss, seeing the ball pitching at least a foot outside his off stump, stepped across his stumps intending to pad it away or leave it to go through the keeper; however, Warne's leg break turned right across Strauss and bowled him behind his legs, hitting middle and leg stump, dismissing England's opener for just 6. Nightwatchman Hoggard survived four balls to end
5229-501: The series, developed and shipped by Codemasters for the Sony PlayStation and Windows platforms with commentary provided by Geoffrey Boycott and Jonathan Agnew . This game was also branded as Shane Warne Cricket '99 in Australia and New Zealand. Developed by Swordfish Studios for Codemasters , Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 is a 6th generation console game for the PlayStation 2 , Xbox and Windows . It
5312-439: The slips for 1, leaving England 31/4 with Bell and Pietersen at the crease, having lost four wickets for six runs. Pietersen survived what looked like an edge from the first ball he faced, and went on to make 20 before he was given out in a similar situation from Warne. His 41-run partnership with Bell took England's lead past 150, but despite having batted for over an hour, Bell still needed 29 more for his half-century when he gave
5395-405: The squad for the fifth Test, while Tremlett was dropped because he was "not on top of his game" according to England's chairman of selectors David Graveney . Collingwood was also called up again. Clark was called up as cover for pace bowlers McGrath and Lee before the third Test. The first day of cricket at Lord's saw 17 of the total of 40 wickets fall, and though Australia lost 10 of them,
5478-409: The stands. Flintoff ended with 73, as the only man to pass 25 for England, before he was bowled by Warne. Warne finished with figures of 6/46 from 23.1 overs, having bowled unchanged from the seventh over to the end. Chasing a very realistic target of 282 runs to win, Hayden and Langer started positively, taking runs off the occasional bad balls that were served up by Harmison, Hoggard and Giles, and by
5561-425: The subsequent reaction of Flintoff to the winning dismissal was to console the despondent batter, Lee – a gesture which was widely commented upon as indicative of the good sportsmanship and mutual respect between the teams which characterised the series. England's two-run victory was the narrowest win (by runs) in Ashes cricket history to date (there had been two Ashes Tests won by a margin of only three runs). It
5644-430: The tally before the end of the day. Day 2 Bell did not add to his overnight score, being given out caught behind in controversial circumstances, as replays indicated any contact with the ball involved neither bat nor glove. Following a brief rain interval England then lost two more wickets just before lunch, Andrew Flintoff after scoring a quick-fire 46 and Geraint Jones for 42. After lunch Australia quickly dispatched
5727-515: The team. Ricky Ponting won the toss and put England in to bat, despite analysis before the match showing that the team that won the toss should choose to bowl first to stand the best chance of victory, as had happened in 12 of the 13 Tests at Edgbaston since 1991 . Jonathan Agnew of the BBC claimed "it was clear that his decision had backfired" once England started batting, a view supported by Channel 4 analyst Simon Hughes . England took advantage of being inserted and came back strongly, becoming
5810-480: The third Test at Old Trafford in Manchester , so there was still all to play for. The match began with England winning the toss, and choosing to bat first, thus giving Shane Warne a chance to become the first man to take 600 Test wickets in England's first innings, and he did so by getting Marcus Trescothick out caught behind by Australian wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist when he mistimed a sweep shot, earning Warne
5893-645: The title. The next cricket game released by the publisher was Ashes Cricket 2009 in August 2009, which continues with the same playing style as the Brian Lara series of cricket games. Codemasters has released the latest International Cricket 2010 on in June 2010 as a sequel to the Ashes Cricket 2009 . The Cricket series is moving on after Brian Lara's retirement and re-branding of the video games series. 2005 Ashes series The 2005 Ashes series
5976-479: Was allowed, as a result was nearing, but Warne and Clarke defied the English bowling attack. Warne "took the attacking approach", and took on Giles for 12 in one over. He ended on 20 not out overnight, as Warne and Clarke batted together for 40 minutes before Harmison, bowling his third spell of the day, brought the third day's proceedings to an end with a slower ball that was not read correctly by Clarke, who missed
6059-643: Was also the second narrowest margin of victory in Test cricket history behind only the West Indies' victory by a single run over Australia in Adelaide in 1993 , which was later matched by New Zealand's 1-run win over England in Wellington in 2023. Day 1 With the series square after England's close win in the second match at Edgbaston in Birmingham , neither side could secure the series win after
6142-408: Was caught by Simon Jones off Harmison, but England were set what would be a world record 420 to win. They started positively, riding some favourable umpiring decisions; Aleem Dar turned down four strong lbw appeals off Warne. Strauss and Trescothick could thus add 80 for the first wicket before Strauss edged a short ball from Lee back into the bowler's waiting hands. Vaughan got off the mark with
6225-418: Was caught off a no-ball on 32, and eventually went on to make 90, being the second man out shortly after lunch, with the score 164/2 after 32.3 overs. In the next five overs, England lost both Ian Bell, who notched up his third successive single-figure score, and Michael Vaughan, who pulled a short Gillespie delivery to the hands of Lee, but that did little to slow the scoring rate. 132 runs had been taken in
6308-461: Was developed by Audiogenic . The Mega Drive version spent 10 weeks at number 1 in the UK games charts during the summer of 1995. The game is a rebranded version of Graham Gooch World Class Cricket . The game supports one to four players and has three modes of difficulty. It also features real player names such as Dion Nash , Michael Slater and Brian Lara (Brian Lara is the only player that endorses
6391-402: Was expensive, giving away 115 runs. Warne, despite bowling 25 overs, failed to take a wicket, recording figures of 0/74. Australia needed 423 to win, which would be a record fourth innings total to win a match . Australia saw out the last 10 overs without losing a wicket and put on 24 runs. This left the match on a knife edge, with all three results still possible. Australia required 399 runs on
6474-459: Was gone for 12, having, according to the BBC report, "played nervously from the word go". Australia still scored at a rate above 4.5 runs per over in the mini-session before drinks, which was taken when Harmison cut Ponting on the right cheek, and in his next over Harmison got his first wicket of the series as Ponting edged him to Andrew Strauss at third slip for 9. Langer was next to depart, having scored at above five an over when he top-edged
6557-410: Was released to coincide with the 2005 Ashes series . BLIC 2005 builds on the 3D environment that was first introduced in Brian Lara Cricket '99 and enhances it with rendered crowds and detailed stadia. It was released in Australia as Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2005 . Off the success of BLIC2005 , Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 was developed. Using the same release date tactics as
6640-507: Was successful and spent 10 weeks at No.1 in the UK video games chart during the summer of 1995. Brian Lara Cricket '96 was released the following year in 1996 also by Codemasters , and it too got to No.1 in the charts. In late 1996 Codemasters acquired the Audiogenic development and Brian Lara Cricket '99 for the PlayStation console was released in 1998. In 2005 Codemasters released Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 for
6723-458: Was that year's edition of the long-standing cricket rivalry between England and Australia . Starting on 21 July 2005, England and Australia played five Tests , with the Ashes held by Australia as the most recent victors. The final result was a 2–1 series win for England, who succeeded (for the first time since 1986–87 ) in their biennial attempt to win the urn . In March 2005, Australia captain Ricky Ponting said this Ashes series would be
6806-531: Was the fifth-highest of the game thus far and which reduced Australia's lead to 35 runs. In the field, England started by having Langer run out for 6 in the fifth over, but Hayden and Ponting rebuilt to bat until lunch unbeaten. Though Hayden was bowled by Flintoff for 34 three overs after lunch, the batters from three to six all passed 40; it was to be the only time in the series that Australia accomplished this feat. Clarke needed an extra life to do it, but made England pay after Pietersen dropped him on 21, and thus
6889-449: Was too much for Geraint Jones, though, and he fended it to wicket-keeper Gilchrist, out for 30. Ashley Giles hit two quick boundaries to bat out the over, but the last ball of Lee's next over was glanced to the keeper, and Giles was out for 11, and England were 92/7 overnight – needing 98 for the last three wickets to get level with Australia. England cut the deficit on the second morning, but were still bowled out before they could build
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