SYDNEY: England inflicted an unprecedented third innings victory upon Australia on Friday, providing a fitting close for Andrew Strauss and his team after thoroughly dominating the Ashes series.England completed an innings and 83-runs run victory before lunch on the final day at the Sydney Cricket Ground - taking the final wicket as a trumpeter played The Last Office for a humbled Australian squad - to stamp a 3-1 series win.
t was England's first trial series win in Australia since 1987 and the start time since 1978-79 that the English have won back-to-back test matches in Australia.Strauss' squad was likewise the 1st always to visit three innings defeats on Australia in a single series.Alsatian Cook scored 189 in the first innings here to assist England post 644, its highest amount ever in Australia, and to get the most prolific English runscorer in an Ashes series since Wally Hammond in 1928-29.Jimmy Anderson took three second-innings wickets, and 8 for the match, as Australia was fired for 280 and 281, unable to treat the reverse swing and the disciplined line and length of England's bowling unit."It feels pretty special if I'm honest," Strauss said after receiving the old urn.England retained the Ashes by winning a 2-1 lead with an emphatic victory at Melbourne last week but was heroic to go one better and win the series outright."Until an Ashes series is finally over you've got half an eye on what's to come, so regular in Melbourne we were still very conscious that we wanted to end on a mellow and point people that we deserved to win this series."Now we've done that we can be really gallant of what we've achieved because not many sides have come out hither and won, certainly not many as definitely as we did in the end." It was only a thing of sentence on Friday for the series to be wrapped up, with England only requiring three wickets and Australia having no probability of victory.Steve Smith (54 not out) and Peter Siddle (43) prolonged Australia's resistance for an hour around a pair of suspensions for rain, but Graeme Swann broke the 86-run, eighth-wicket stand when he had Siddle caught on the limit by Anderson.Anderson (3-61) then had Ben Hilfenhaus (7) caught behind and Chris Tremlett (3-79) picked off No.11 Michael Beer (2) to end the run and cue wild celebrations among England players and its 'Barmy Army' supporters.Associated Press
No comments:
Post a Comment