Flintoff and Jones formed one half of England’s famous fast-bowling foursome that helped England claim the 2005 Ashes 2-1 against an Australia side widely regarded as one of the best to have ever played the game. Jones claimed 18 wickets at an average of just 21 in the four Tests he played that series. After leaving the field injured during Australia’s second innings of the fourth Test, Jones, then only 26, never took part in a game of international cricket ever again.

By the end of the 2005 Ashes, a series in which Anderson took no part in, Anderson had taken 24 fewer Test wickets than Jones, a man three-and-a-half years his senior.