Ashes: Australia seal 4-0 series win after spectacular England collapse
Australia’s fast bowlers ran through the English batting line-up to claim a comprehensive 146-run win in the fifth and final Ashes Test at Hobart on Sunday, sealing a one-sided series 4-0.
4️⃣-0️⃣
Brisbane: AUS by nine wickets
Adelaide: AUS by 275 runs
Melbourne: AUS by an innings & 14 runs
Sydney: Draw
Hobart: AUS by 146 runs#Ashes pic.twitter.com/qyGTHLZmzY— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 16, 2022
After a bright 68-run opening stand chasing 271 for victory, England collapsed once again to hand the Test to the rampant Australian outfit, losing 10 wickets for 56 runs in 137 balls.
Heaps and heaps of wickets – and another convincing Aussie victory! #Ashes https://t.co/k6ctq4lz7S
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 16, 2022
Travis Head is Player of the Series, winning the Compton/Miller Medal.#Ashes pic.twitter.com/xvWjRnU0Yz
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 16, 2022
The hosts could easily have won the series 5-0, but for some bad weather and heroics from England’s lower order in Sydney, when the outclassed visitors held on for a tense draw.
Four.
Nil. #Ashes pic.twitter.com/F6Ccoh4SCS— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) January 16, 2022
England had no answers once more in Hobart to the pace barrage of Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc, who shared the wickets between them, and who took nine English wickets in the night session.
Pat Cummins’ wickets in the #Ashes
2017-18: 23 at 24
2019: 29 at 19
2021-22: 21 at 18Total: 73 at 20.75
— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09) January 16, 2022
Earlier, English paceman Mark Wood took career-best figures of 6-37 in an impressive display of hostile fast bowling to at least give his side some hope of winning their first match of the tour.
A performance full of fireworks from Mark Wood 🎆 #WTC23 | #Ashes pic.twitter.com/E8hA73D1mC
— ICC (@ICC) January 16, 2022
Wood’s extra pace has troubled a number of the Australian batsmen throughout the series and it proved a big factor during their second innings.
Here's how the #WTC23 table stacks up after Australia clinched a 4-0 series victory in the #Ashes 🔢 pic.twitter.com/a0oaus1KoM
— ICC (@ICC) January 16, 2022