England's overlooked 2005 Ashes win: 'Everyone thought we were the Wags'
It is late summer, 2005. Eleven English cricketers are putting the finishing touches to a Test series victory over their oldest enemy, Australia.
Claire Connor talks with fellow captain Michael Vaughan and then Prime Minister Tony Blair at a Downing Street drinks reception Aged just 20, Sciver-Brunt was the player of the series. She took 14 wickets across the two Tests and scored a vital 52 in the second-Test victory at Worcester which ultimately sealed a"If I did what I did then in this summer's Ashes, I'd have had a deal with Nike, a Kookaburra contract and one of the highest-paid IPL contracts," she says."There is a bit of anger for a lot of us. A lot of people were ignorant and it wasn't celebrated in the way it should have been.
"They had two world-class spinners and so much depth in their batting. Nitschke came in at number 10 in the first Test and she opened the batting for her state." Victory came in no small part thanks to Sciver-Brunt, who took nine wickets and shared a crucial 10th-wicket stand of 85 with Guha. "But at the same time, again both then and reflecting on it now, there was a more complicated, nuanced feeling - a feeling of being patronised that didn't sit well in 2005 or nearly 20 years later.""There was a genuine feeling of gratefulness to be there. On my journey in the game that's obviously changed as we've tried to strive for equity in cricket and sport."
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