England's greatest Test match?

My second choice is the Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1994/95 – my first experience of Test cricket overseas in the flesh. I had finished university, journalism awaited me. I watched every ball with fellow backpacker Neil. It was the best draw you could ever see: Darren Gough’s half-century; then his brilliant bowling, so nearly making the Aussies follow on. Then Mike Atherton declaring with Graeme Hick on 98. And Australia defying/denying England, thanks to brilliant batting, Darrell Hair’s maddening refusal to refer Mark Taylor’s run out and some bad weather, and in spite of Angus Fraser’s wondrously gutsy bowling.

My third choice is – on the surface – a bit obvious. A lot of people would select Edgbaston 2005. But I have to choose it. It was the first time I had covered every ball of all five days for national papers (Daily Express/ Sunday Telegraph) and the Saturday afternoon was quite simply the most enjoyable and gripping passage of play I have seen.

I was next to my old mentor Scyld Berry. We sat frozen still, holding our breath as Andrew Flintoff took the attack to the Australians in the second innings. He made a brilliant, fearless 73 from 86 balls, with four sixes, and received tremendous support from Simon Jones, who made 12 not out.

The tourists just kept taking wickets. Would England have enough?