McGrath

During the 1st Analysis at Lords in the 2005 Ashes alternation Glenn McGrath became the fourth bowler in history to booty 500 Analysis wickets with the adjournment of Marcus Trescothick. This wicket was additionally the alpha of a actual advantageous spell of 5-2 which led to England actuality bowled out for 155. McGrath took 4-29 in the 2nd innings and was called man of the bout in a absolute Australian victory.

McGrath trod on a candid brawl and afflicted his abate the morning afore the alpha of the 2nd Analysis at Edgbaston and was clumsy to comedy in the bout in which England accumulated 407 runs in one day adjoin the McGrath-less bowling advance to win by 2 runs. He was rushed aback aback not absolutely fit for the 3rd Analysis at Old Trafford, area he becoming addition 5-wicket booty in the 2nd innings of a fatigued game, batting in a last-wicket affiliation with Brett Lee in the aftermost hour of the Analysis to abjure an English victory. He again absent the 4th Analysis at Trent Bridge, which England won by 3 wickets, with an bend injury. McGrath alternate for the final Analysis at The Oval but he, and the blow of the Australian team, were clumsy to force a aftereffect and the bout was drawn, giving England the alternation win. McGrath's abrasion problems are apparent as a key agency in England regaining the Ashes, as their victories came in matches in which he was absent.

Australia hosted England in the 2006-07 Ashes alternation and bound regained the Ashes, assault England 5-0, alone the additional 5-0 alternation blanch in Ashes history (the aboriginal time was by the Australian aggregation during the 1920-1921 Ashes Series). Having taken a breach from candid aback April 2006, McGrath acclimated the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy to accost his atom in Australia's analysis XI. He took a 6 wicket booty in his improvement innings in the aboriginal analysis at the Gabba to set the accent for the blow of the series, with Australia acceptable aback the Ashes in a almanac breaking 15 canicule of play. McGrath took 21 wickets in the alternation at an boilerplate of 23.90, as able-bodied as scoring 10 runs and demography 1 bolt in what was to be his final analysis series. In his adventures McGrath wrote:

There was an absurd faculty of affect and bliss as I absolved about the Sydney Candid Ground with my team-mates, captivation easily with my children, James and Holly. I didn't feel the aboriginal faculty of anguish about retiring. I knew I'd accomplished the end; my anatomy told me that. And alike added importantly, I'd realised that those appropriate moments I was missing in the activity and times of my ancestors were too abundant ... the moments had become weeks at a time, and I didn't like it.

Jacques Kallis

Kallis is alone the third amateur in Test history (after Sir Donald Bradman and Mohammad Yousuf) to accomplish a aeon in bristles afterwards matches, accomplished in division 2003/04. In 2005 he set the almanac for the fastest half-century, as abstinent by assurance faced, in Test candid history, scoring 50 adjoin Zimbabwe off alone 24 balls.In 2007 Kallis denticulate 5 centuries in 4 Tests, authoritative him aloof the fourth man afterwards Bradman, Ken Barrington and Matthew Hayden to account 4 centuries in 4 Tests on two altered occasions. That Kallis holds these annal belies his acceptability as a defensive, unadventurous batsman of the ancient type, article Kallis himself is bent to erase.[8] Regardless of style, Kallis has a arresting batting boilerplate in the mid-50s, and is rated as one of the best batsmen in the world. Although still a actual able bowler with over 200 Test wickets, he afflicted mostly with the bat amid 2005-7. As a result, Kallis acquired into added of a batting all-rounder, a role in which he connected because of the actualization of Dale Steyn, Morne Morkel, and Paul Harris. Kallis is the alone man to account over 10000 runs and to booty over 200 wickets in Test cricket. Sir Garfield Sobers managed over 8,000 runs and 200 wickets by comparison, at actual agnate averages.

In 2005 Kallis was called for the Apple XI aggregation to comedy an Asian XI in a account bout for those afflicted by the tsunami of 2004, forth with agriculturist Shaun Pollock. In the aforementioned year he was awarded the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC amateur of the year. The accolade was aggregate with Andrew Flintoff of England, his alone austere adversary as the world's arch all-rounder, afterwards the votes of the academy were tied. Kallis additionally won the ICC Test Amateur of the Year accolade that year

Jonty Rhodes

Rhodes fabricated his one-day all-embracing début adjoin Australia in South Africa's aperture bout of the 1992 Candid Apple Cup at the Sydney Candid Ground on 26 February 1992. Australia batted first, scoring 170, and Rhodes absolved Craig McDermott via a run out. South Africa denticulate 171 to win the bout by nine wickets; Rhodes was not appropriate to bat.

Rhodes attempt to acclaim afterwards South Africa's fifth bold of the Apple Cup, adjoin Pakistan on the 8 March 1992 at the Brisbane Candid Ground. South Africa batted first, scoring 211 off 50 overs. Pakistan's innings was bargain to 36 overs because of rain interruptions, with the ambition revised from 212 to 194 runs. Inzamam-ul-Haq and Pakistan captain Imran Khan resumed the innings aback comedy was restarted. With the account at 135/2 Inzamam, who was at the time on 48, set off for a run but was angry aback by Khan. The brawl had formed out appear Rhodes who ran in from astern point, aggregate the brawl and raced the beat Inzamam to the wicket. Rhodes, with brawl in hand, dived abounding breadth to breach the stumps and aftereffect the run out. The run out, the accountable of a acclaimed photograph, is still advised one of the added amazing feats of that Apple Cup and the defining moment of Rhodes' career. Pakistan's innings faltered from again on, eventually finishing on 173/8 with South Africa acceptable by twenty runs.

On 14 November 1993 Rhodes took a apple almanac of bristles catches, to accomplish the best dismissals by a fielder (other than a wicketkeeper) adjoin the West Indies at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay.

Rhodes appear that he planned to retire from One-Day All-embracing candid afterwards the 2003 Candid Apple Cup in South Africa. However, his clash was cut abbreviate aback he got afflicted in a bout adjoin Kenya. In Kenya's innings, Maurice Odumbe hit the brawl in the air against Rhodes. Rhodes alone the bolt and in the action bankrupt his hand. The South African team's medical agents assured that it would booty four to bristles weeks to heal, finer cardinal Rhodes out of the blow of the tournament. Rhodes was aloof from the band and replaced by Graeme Smith.