Ellison Had The Edge To Become An Ashes Hero
The Cricket Paper|July 28, 2019

MENTION the words ‘Edgbaston’ and ‘The Ashes’ and certain images spring to mind. Foremost among them, a marauding moustache-wearing swing bowler cutting swathes through the Australian top order on an unforgettable evening in the country’s second city.

Richard Edwards
Ellison Had The Edge To Become An Ashes Hero

Now on the cusp of turning 60, Richard Ellison remains a central figure in Ashes history, despite playing only 11 matches in his Test career. For one glorious moment in front of a baying Edgbaston crowd, though, the Kent all-rounder was front and back page news as England enjoyed a summer to remember against the Baggy Green-clad tourists.

That match at Edgbaston – the fifth Test of that series – saw Australia post a first innings score of 335, with Ellison taking 6-77. England then responded with a huge 595-5dec as Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting posted centuries and David Gower helped himself to 215.

Then, with the clock ticking down on the fourth evening, Ellison began a spell that has stayed with him ever since.

“I can remember that evening so clearly, if only because it was perhaps the loudest crowd I had ever played in front of,” he says. “There was a swell of noise as I was running into bowl, a crescendo as I ran into bowl. I had played in Calcutta in front of 100,000 people – and there was probably only 20,000 in Edgbaston at that time – but there was no comparison, the atmosphere was incredible.

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