200th England Test on Sky Sports: double celebrations for our pundits

This week’s fifth Test at the Oval is the 200th live England Test match to be shown on Sky Sports.

Before play gets underway on Friday, we popped into the commentary box to catch up with the pundits for whom the number 200 is extra special… Vote for your favourite England double-ton here 

Nasser Hussain, 207 v Australia
First Test, Edgbaston, 1997 – England win by nine wickets

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Nasser: "It didn't get any better for me than this innings. It was the best I ever batted throughout my career. To play that way and beat an Australian side with a proper attack that featured McGrath and Warne made it more special, as did putting on 288 with Thorpey; that innings was also about proving to the Australian players I'd played with like Mark Waugh that I can play a bit. It was a special week because we'd just beaten Australia in the one-dayers and gone ahead in the Test series so we felt - for once - that we could beat them, but once again it dwindled away after that. I was actually out of form going into the innings. I hadn't got any runs for Essex; the ball had been nibbling around early season and I hadn't been playing well. I spoke to Keith Fletcher, who just said to me 'don't worry - a couple of boundaries and you'll be back in form' and so it proved. We were struggling at 16-2 and then I got a couple off the middle and I was absolutely in the right frame of mind. The previous night I had a TV and video sent up to my room and I watched videos of Warne, McGrath and Gillespie continually for about two hours and trained the brain. The next day I felt so much in the zone that I didn't hear any of the chat or the sledging, I was just in my own little bubble."

David Gower, 215 v Australia
Fifth Test, Edgbaston, 1985 – England win by an innings and 118 runs

David: "Scoring a double-hundred against Australia as captain in a successful Ashes campaign is tough to beat. We’d lost a bit of time to rain but we managed to bowl Australia out for 335, which wasn’t a bad effort on a pretty benign pitch. Richard Ellison was a very, very fine swing bowler and he picked up six wickets but we needed to put the foot down when we batted and we did, scoring 595-5 declared at the best part of 4.5 an over – that was partly down to me but also Tim Robinson (148), Mike Gatting (100no) and Ian Botham, who didn’t have much time but clobbered two of his first three balls for six. At the end of the fourth day Australia were 37-5 and we thought all we had to do was pop down on the final day and finish things off. The following morning I got out of bed, pulled the curtains open and saw it was raining. We watched it drizzle all morning and into the afternoon before it cleared up enough to let us back on the field. Wayne Phillips (59) and Greg Ritchie were playing rather well until Wayne played a back foot forcing shot. I was fielding at the more forward of two silly points - Lamby was square, I was in front of square. I swear blind that I watched the ball all of the way – I started to turn but saw the ball come off Lamby’s in-step; it bounced up very nicely and I took a nice easy catch. That was the trigger we needed for Botham to polish off the rest of the tail and put us 2-1 up going to the Oval, where we