Ashes Daily: Super Stokes goes down in vain

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jonathan Agnew, Sir Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan and Pat Cummins react to the fifth and final day of the second Ashes test at Lord's. Hear from England captain Ben Stokes after his innings of 155, England head coach Brendon McCullum on England's uphill battle to win the Ashes, and Australia captain Pat Cummins gives his point of view of the controversial wicket which saw Jonny Bairstow given out.

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0:00.0	On Valentine's Day 2004, one of Italy's greatest cyclists was found dead in mysterious circumstances.
0:06.7	In Italy there's growing mystery about the death of one of the country's sporting heroes.
0:10.7	And Tony, known as the Pirate, because of the yellow bandana he wore around his head.
0:14.9	In November 2021, new evidence had supposedly come to light,
0:19.1	alleging that the Italian mafia were involved in Marco Pantani's death.
0:23.4	Five other top European cyclists have died mysteriously in the last year.
0:27.7	The maficles were money years.
0:30.0	Nearly 20 years on, are we any closer to knowing for sure what happened to the pirate?
0:34.8	It's a very dark story, the pantani story. It's a tragedy.
0:37.9	I'm Hugh Dennis and this is Sports Stranger's Crimes, Marco Pantani, Death of a Pirate.
0:43.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:46.2	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:50.5	The TMS Podcast.
0:52.4	Here every ball of every match in the men's and women's ashes live on Radio 5 Sports
0:58.3	and BBC Sounds.
1:29.1	Besto stalks off his own word there with the Australians going past.
1:32.4	They could have withdrawn the appeal.
1:34.4	Hazelwood, round the wicket, bowls, Stokes says he's down in the air.
1:37.8	Care is getting underneath it. It's going to be caught.
1:42.1	That may well be the end of the miracle.
1:44.4	Watson innings from England's captain.
1:47.6	A hundred and fifty-five from two hundred and fourteen balls.
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