Product Description

"Relive the best of the action from the thrilling npower Ashes Series 2009 between England and Australia.

Ricky Ponting's Australian team arrived as holders of the Ashes but left empty-handed as England, led superbly by Andrew Strauss, won back the Ashes after an exhilarating seven weeks of Test cricket.

The Ashes Series 2009 is the official 3 disc set featuring over 11 hours of highlights from all five Tests.

The Series got underway with Monty Panesar and James Anderson denying Australia an opening Test victory in Cardiff before Andrew Flintoff inspired an historic England win at Lord's.

The Australians fought back, first to save the game at Edgbaston, then with an emphatic victory at Headingley, setting up a grand finale at The Brit Oval. There, Stuart Broad ripped through the Australian batsmen, Jonathan Trott marked his debut with a superb century and, finally, Graeme Swann sealed a thrilling victory.

Amidst joyous celebrations, skipper and Man of the Series Andrew Strauss proudly lifted the urn and England had regained the Ashes.

Enjoy all the action from an Ashes Series which swung one way then the other as the talismanic all-rounder Freddie Flintoff said goodbye to Test cricket as part of an Ashes winning England team!

Running time 11 Hours, 3 discs - UK - PAL

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #108 in DVD
• Size: One Size Only
• Brand: 2Entertain
• Released on: 2009-10-19
• Rating: Exempt
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: 1.10 pounds
• Running time: 660 minutes

DVD Description

Relive the best of the action from the thrilling npower Ashes Series 2009 between England and Australia.

Ricky Ponting's Australian team arrived as holders of the Ashes but left empty-handed as England, led superbly by Andrew Strauss, won back the Ashes after an exhilarating seven weeks of Test cricket.

The Ashes Series 2009 is the official 3 disc set featuring over 11 hours of highlights from all five Tests.

The Series got underway with Monty Panesar and James Anderson denying Australia an opening Test victory in Cardiff before Andrew Flintoff inspired an historic England win at Lord's.

The Australians fought back, first to save the game at Edgbaston, then with an emphatic victory at Headingley, setting up a grand finale at The Brit Oval. There, Stuart Broad ripped through the Australian batsmen, Jonathan Trott marked his debut with a superb century and, finally, Graeme Swann sealed a thrilling victory.

Amidst joyous celebrations, skipper and Man of the Series Andrew Strauss proudly lifted the urn and England had regained the Ashes.

Enjoy all the action from an Ashes Series which swung one way then the other as the talismanic all-rounder ‘Freddie’ Flintoff said goodbye to Test cricket as part of an Ashes winning England team!

Customer Reviews

not the very best of ashes, but who cares
Fitting twent-five days of exciting test cricket into an 11 hour dvd box will allways be difficult. Only he who uses the cutting knife with great care and with a good feel for the body he's hacking into will succeed. In this case this delicate task has been extremely well mastered. Not all fours, not all those little frantic moments are included, instead the great narrators, Geoff Boycott leading the way, are given room to show that cricket is a game not only of good quality players but also of masterfull entertainers who do the crickety talking whilst the balls fly and the wickets fall. Not a foot is put wrong. You start at disc one, ending before you know it at disc three with those two summer months completely revived in your brain and even the slightest of sun tans returning to your wintery skin. Who could ask for more, between now and the next ashes.

Excellent record of a superb series
This 3 DVD set is an excellent record of what, in my personal opinion will go down as one of the best Ashes series of all time. The commentary team are all very professional and convey the excitement and tension of the 5 Test matches with consumate ease and skill. Geoffrey Boycott's pithy commentary style is, for me the best since Richie Benaud retired, and I never tire of his cry of "SHOT"!! each time a 4 or occasional 6 is scored. All in all this is a great buy for anyone, whether a cricket fanatic or an occasional fan.

An excellent dvd for non-Sky subscribers
As I'm one of those lifelong cricket lovers who the ECB have decided they don't need any more, my cricket fix for the last five years has been Test Match Special on the radio. I have seen very little cricket recently and so watching this dvd was a revelation. Others who saw the matches live might not be quite so impressed, but I enjoyed reliving a result that's only happened twice since the days when all we had to contend with was the likes of Kim Hughes and Rodney Hogg, with the added benefit of vision.

I felt the coverage was well-judged to bring out the drama and it didn't come over as a highlights bundle in which every day has thirty minutes coverage regardless of how interesting that day was. Key turning points are often presented at length. As others have said it's not all four, four, wicket, four as highlights often are with no feeling of the build up of events. This was an unusual series in that the result of each match was decided during brief periods of play. Context is everything and this dvd shows the twists of what I thought was a well-fought Test series between two equally matched sides. I wish all series were like this one, and it was nice to finally put some faces to names.