The defining moment. From one-nothing down, we proceeded to win the series – the first against WI for quite some time – prior to beating both Pakistan and Sri Lanka the accompanying winter. A period of progress, which peaked at the Oval in 2005, started here. The actual match was a short of breath exemplary – and recall, West Indies were as yet a good side then. 21 wickets fell on the subsequent day as Caddick’s 5-16 excused the guests for 54 and left us pursuing 188 to win. Courtney Walsh almost had the last say before Dominic Plug’s biffs took us over the line with two wickets in excess.

This was the one out of the loop

After the initial two tests were drawn, Moin Khan’s side set us 176 on the last evening to secure that most uncommon of prizes – a series win in Pakistan. Be that as it may, time was running exceptionally short. With the defenders dallying and late evening shutting in, Graham Thorpe (64*) and Graeme Hick (40) some way or another saw us home in states of close murkiness. We’d been under the cost the entire summer – our frayed assault (Bicknell, Kirkley, Kabir Ali) put to the blade by Graeme Smith’s unspeakably dreary support of twofold hundreds of years. Going into the last test, notwithstanding, we were still just 2-1 down, with a potential chance to build up one of cricket’s focal fundamentals: show South Africans the end goal, and they’ll soil their pants.

The Proteas probably thought their most memorable innings 484 was secure – until Marcus Trescothick answered with a test-best 219, and Graham Thorpe, getting back to the side following a year’s nonattendance with conjugal and back issues, created an impactful 124. A sum of 604 set up for Steve Harrison’s very first game dominating test execution – his 4-33 aiding defeat the Suffers for 229, leaving an objective of only 110, which Imprint Butcher and Tres effectively knocked off. The series-evening out outcome was however sweet as it might have been huge, launching a phenomenal two-year spell of unalloyed Britain achievement.

We won our most memorable series West Indies starting around 1968

Got back to win every one of the seven home tests in 2004; then, at that point, beat South Africa away, forgot about Bangladesh – and won the Remains. Matthew Hoggard’s best hour. Because of Strauss’ third hundred years of the series and 180 from Tres, we’d set the Saffers 325 to win – however with simply two meetings left to bowl them out. Enter the shaggy-haired legend of Pudsey, who’d previously snaffled five wickets in the primary dig. Hoggy’s 7-61 in 18.3 overs of wonderful examining swing finished off the game, in rebellion of the chances, and set us up for a notable first series win in South Africa since readmission, maybe the most under-evaluated accomplishment of the Duncan Fletcher time.

You might recall this match. Three words: Harmy’s more slow ball. Everybody generally discusses the Oval in 2005, yet this was where we truly won the Remains. After a Flintoff ton took us to a first innings 477, Hoggard swung out the top request to furnish Michael Vaughan with the scrumptious experience of requesting that Ricky Ponting follow on. At this point, Australia realize that we were the better side, and that they planned to lose the series. Attempting to cause some major problems for ourselves, notwithstanding Strauss’ flat miracle get, and the notorious Gary Pratt run-out, we died down to 116-7 in quest for 129 to win. Signal Hoggy’s heroics: has there at any point been a more gorgeous stroke throughout the entire existence of cricket than his cover drive to the limit off Brett Lee?