ENGLAND V AUSTRALIA, THE OVAL, 2005

This is one of the Ashes classics. Australia needed a win in the fifth Test but England denied them. Dropping a sitter when England’s Kevin Pietersen was on 20 proved too costly a miss for the Australians as the Test rookie smashed his maiden century (158) to ensure a draw. England won the series 2-1.

Brief scores: England 373 (A Strauss 129; S Warne 6/122) and 335 (K Pietersen 158; S Warne 6/124) draw vs Australia 367 (J Langer 105, M Hayden 138; A Flintoff 5/78, M Hoggard 4/97).