SK Flashback: The greatest Ashes and the greatest cricket video games - Part 2

#6 Cleaning up the tail

Simon Jones: a great example of what could have been...

In reply to England's humongous first innings score, Australia is in a spot of bother at 133-5, thanks to a crafty display of spin bowling by Ashley Giles. As the Australian tail is exposed, they need 97 more runs to avoid a shameful follow-on. Michael Vaughan has brought back Simon Jones into the attack. Jones has already picked up Ponting's wicket in his first spell, and the task is to continue the good work to restrict Australia to less than 230 by taking three more wickets as Simon Jones. This is the only bowling assignment in the English saga and is not a very difficult task to complete.

What actually happened: No, Australia could not be forced to follow-on, thanks to some sensible batting by Shane Warne and Jason Gillespie. But Jones had a stellar evening as he accounted for all the remaining five wickets, finishing with a personal best of 6-53. Looking back, this was definitely the best we could see of a promising career which was unfortunately cut short by prolonged occurrences of injuries.