The Ashes 2013: 1st Test - 5 key moments of the match

1. James Anderson’s magic ball to Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke – bowled by a dream delivery by James Anderson

As aforementioned, we would rather remember this engaging and enthralling Test match by some quality cricketing action than something controversial and hence, James Anderson’s magical delivery to Michael Clarke in the first innings stands out as the defining moment of the Test match.

These are the moments that a professional cricketer dreams of, the dream delivery bowled to the general of the opposite warship on the first day of the first Ashes Test. Who could have scripted it better?

Bowled from over the wicket, the delivery shaped in at first, pitching on the off-stump, but after pitching, moved away a tad from the picture perfect defensive prod of Michael Clarke, clipping the top of off-stump to dismiss the Aussie skipper as he tried to gather what had happened in the middle. That wicket, quite deservedly, took Anderson past Fred Trueman’s record of 307 Test wickets.

Anderson’s starred in the 4th innings of the match too, picking up his second five-for of the match, four of which came on the last day as he single-handedly defeated the resistance of the Australian lower-order.