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

#8. One last chance for victory

England made a modicum target look Gargantuan.

Australia had to suffer a humiliating follow-on due to a collective failure of the batting order. No one could play a decisive long innings, and eventually, Australia folded up for 387, putting up a target of 129 for England in four sessions. Shane Warne was not done yet, as he bamboozled the top three quite cheaply. A nervous Ian Bell holed out to Michael Kasprowicz off Lee to leave England at 57-4. The target is now half done, with England at 65-4. There is a sense of growing panic in the English dressing room as KP and Flintoff take guard. The pair is expected to weather the Warne storm and take the side to victory which is 64 runs away with 6 wickets in hand.

What actually happened: This is perhaps the easiest task in the whole saga, but in reality, the battle was a close one. The partnership of 46 between the pair was crucial, as England trudged to 103. But a twin-strike by Brett Lee and a resurgence by Warne put them in a spot of bother at 116-7. The Test could have gone either way, but the sheer presence of mind of the new pair- Matt Hoggard and Ashley Giles, ensured that England went one up in the series with one more to go.