10 greatest Ashes Tests of all time

#8 Trent Bridge, 2013

England dismissed Brad Haddin, who was the last to fall, via the DRS to beat Australia by 14 runs

England 215 & 375 beat Australia 280 & 296 by 14 runs

England carried their winning Ashes run in to the 2013 series despite managing a paltry 215 in the first innings with Peter Siddle claiming 5/50 – he sent back all of numbers two to five, thus breaking the back of England’s middle-order.

At 117/9, Australia looked like falling well short of a par score. But 31 overs later, they had done just the opposite. Debutant – and number eleven – Ashton Agar bewildered English supporters with a record 98 in the company of Phil Hughes, who remained on 81 after James Anderson and Steven Finn had given England hopes of a healthy first innings lead.

Agar’s resistance finally ended with Australia 65 ahead, but after that, England responded with Ian Bell getting 109 and Stuart Broad 65, which included the game-changing moment when he did not walk back early in his innings after the umpire had adjudged him not out.

A target of 311 would never have been that daunting had Australia’s middle-order not collapsed. Nine down for 231 with only Brad Haddin to help – also, this time the number eleven had changed to James Pattinson – gave England the upper hand. But Haddin batted calmly with Pattinson’s support until the DRS accounted for the former’s wicket as Australia fell 14 short and Anderson finished with ten in the match.