Hobart: Australia won the fifth Test against England by 146 runs to win the Ashes series 4-0.
England travel to Australia to play in the five-match Ashes Test series. Australia were already in the lead, capturing the series, 3-0 at the end of the first four matches. The fifth Test was played at Hobart during the day. Australia 303, England 188 in the first innings. At the end of the second day, Australia were 37 for 3 in the 2nd innings. Smith (17) and Poland (3) were unbeaten.
Wood scores: Mark Wood bothers the Australians following the second innings of the third day’s play. In his ‘speed’ Scott Poland (8), Travis Head (8) and Steve Smith (27) came out. Cameron Green (23) and Alex Carey (49) were bowled by Stuart Broad. Mitchell Starc (1) and Captain Cummins (13) were subsequently dismissed for a foul on Mark Wood. Australia were all-out for 155 in the second innings. Nathan Lyon (4) was unbeaten. Mark Wood 6, Brad 3 for England.
Challenging target: Then, the Australian ‘speeds’ gave the England team a crisis as they started the second innings with a challenging target of 271 to win. Rory Burns (26), Jack Crawley (36) and David Malone (10) were out off Cameron Green. Captain Joe Root (11), Sam Billings (1) and Chris Vokes (5) were out at Scott Poland ‘speed’. Ben Stokes (5) cheated. Pope (5), Mark Wood (11) and Robinson (0) surrendered at Cummins’ ball.
England were bowled out for 124 in the second innings. Brad (1) was unbeaten. Cummins, Poland and Green took 3 wickets each for Australia. Australia’s Travis Head wins Man of the Match and Man of the Series awards.
34th time
Australia win Ashes for 34th time Australia have won the series 72 times (1882-2022) 34 times and England 32 times. Six times the series was drawn.
10th win
The Australian team recorded its 10th consecutive victory in the Day Tests. They have won 3 Tests against England (2017, 2021, 2022), 2 each against New Zealand (2015, 2019), 2 each against Pakistan (2016, 2019), South Africa (2016), Sri Lanka (2019) and India (2020).
357 runs
Australia’s Travis Head tops the list of highest run scorers. He scored 357 runs in 4 Tests, including 2 centuries and a half-century. The next two places were taken by Australia’s Labusen (335) and England’s Joe Root (322).
21 wickets
Cummins topped Australia’s list of highest wicket – takers. He took 21 wickets in 4 Tests. The next three places were taken by Australia’s Starc (19 wickets), Poland (18) and England’s Mark Wood (17).
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