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5th Test :: Day 1 :: Sydney
Australia: England: 234-4

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Led by Ian Bell's fluent 71, England ended day one of the final Ashes Test in Sydney on an encouraging 234-4.
Bell put on 108 with Kevin Pietersen (41) before Andrew Flintoff and Paul Collingwood added an unbeaten 67.
They came together when veteran seamer Glenn McGrath, playing his final Test match, took two wickets in the space of five balls to put the Aussies on top.
The other decorated Australian bowler making his last Test appearance, Shane Warne, bowled 19 wicketless overs.
He did not extract huge spin and was not at his most consistent either, but his threat will increase during the course of the match.
Spectators arriving at the ground early in the morning were hit by a monsoon-like deluge and it was soon clear that despite the improving weather play would not start on time.
Finally, the toss took place at 11.10am local time (0010 GMT) and an 80-minute first session ensued.
England, who replaced Matthew Hoggard (side strain) with James Anderson, batted first after Flintoff called correctly.
And Andrew Strauss immediately looked anxious to score quickly, but had difficulty locating the middle of his bat.
His first boundary was an edge off Brett Lee that flew only marginally wide of the slip cordon and his second also came off the edge of the bat.
He was dropped on 21 by Justin Langer fielding at third slip to McGrath.
But it was no real surprise when he was out adding just eight runs to that score - attempting a cut shot at a ball from Lee that hurried onto him.
Adam Gilchrist had few problems taking the catch and Lee's first ball at Bell was a short-pitched snorter that the right-hander did well to defend safely.
England reached lunch on 58-1 but failed to add to that score before losing Alastair Cook for 20.
He contrived to get an inside edge to a Stuart Clark delivery, giving Gilchrist another catch.
Surprisingly, Bell was the dominant partner in the important partnership with Pietersen that occupied almost the whole of the extended middle session.
He was particularly strong through the on-side initially, before cutting both McGrath and Warne for boundaries after passing 50.
Pietersen hit just one boundary in a 104-ball innings that reaped 41 runs and he was generally content to be patient.
But after tea, he decided to take a more aggressive approach against McGrath.
Repeated attempts to come down the wicket to the hugely experienced seamer came to nought, however, and the method of attack eventually brought about his downfall.
McGrath simply bowled shorter and shorter until Pietersen obliged by top-edging an attempted pull to mid-wicket.
An encouraging score of 166-2 became a worrying one of 167-3 when in McGrath's following over he bowled a peach of a delivery that seamed through Bell's defences to bowl him off the inside edge.
Flintoff, 42 not out, batted in relaxed manner from the start of his innings, and two off-side boundaries off Lee followed by a six over wide mid-on off Clark got him going.
Collingwood, unbeaten on 25, played Warne well, and cashed in on two full tosses, despatching them for boundaries.
And the pair were beginning to look settled ahead of the second new ball before bad light brought about an early conclusion, with 80 overs bowled in the day.
Scorecard
Australia: J L Langer, M L Hayden, R T Ponting, M E K Hussey, M J Clarke, A Symonds, A C Gilchrist, S K Warne, B Lee, S R Clark, G D McGrath England: A J Strauss, A N Cook, I R Bell, K P Pietersen, P D Collingwood, A Flintoff, C M W Read, S I Mahmood, S J Harmison, J M Anderson, M S Panesar
(same teams as 4th Test)
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Jan 2 2007, 09:50 AM
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No they aren't. Hoggard played in the last test
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No they aren't. Hoggard played in the last test
Oh yeah! Didn't notice that!
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5th Test :: Day 2 :: Sydney
Australia: 188-4 England: 291

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England produced an improved bowling performance but Australia ended day two of the final Ashes Test on 188-4 in reply to the tourists' 291 all out.
Steve Harmison took 2-34 and England had the bonus of Ricky Ponting's wicket for 45 - the Aussie captain was in fine touch before running himself out.
Earlier, England subsided quickly from an overnight 234-4 but captain Andrew Flintoff (89) emerged with credit.
Disappointingly, England's last five men produced only four runs.
Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark all finished with three wickets.
The second new ball was taken as soon as play began on Wednesday and McGrath and Lee looked dangerous immediately.
Paul Collingwood was dropped by Justin Langer in the slips in Lee's first over, but in any case added just two to his overnight 25 before edging a McGrath lifter to wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist.
Chris Read never settled and soon gave Gilchrist another catch off Lee, who followed up by removing Sajid Mahmood for a golden duck.
Mahmood, batting at least two places too high at number eight, fended away amateurishly for Matthew Hayden to take the easiest catch imaginable at gully.
Though he struggled to put bat to ball, Harmison did better than his fellow tail-enders, lasting 24 balls to allow Flintoff to go from 61 to 82.
The England skipper moved to within sight of his sixth Test century - and first since the summer of 2005.
But wickets were falling and he had to take more and more risks, so it was no huge surprise when he nicked a big drive behind to be the ninth man out.
And the final wicket of the innings was Shane Warne's 1,000th in international cricket, Monty Panesar missing an attempted sweep to be adjudged lbw.
Langer survived the one over bowled by England before lunch and emerged after the interval to play a range of shots with real panache.
But having got to 26 quickly he contrived to glove a ball from James Anderson down the leg-side, Read taking the catch.
Ponting and Hayden were given plenty of balls to attack - which the Australian bowlers had not done when England batted.
And the tourists had to wait until the score had got to 100 before the next wicket came - Hayden lazily steering a wide ball from Harmison to Collingwood in the slips.
When Ponting began to blossom after tea, hitting two terrific pull shots off Anderson, things looked ominous for England.
But a daft decision to try to steal a single to mid-on ended Ponting's innings, Anderson hitting middle stump with his sharp throw.
Michael Clarke then edged a good ball from Harmison to Read, whereupon the heavens opened with Australia 155-4.
When conditions abated, Andrew Symonds and Michael Hussey had to weather a difficult 12 overs before stumps.
England desperately wanted another wicket, but it was not to be, and the amazingly consistent Hussey (37 not out) was beginning to look threatening.
Symonds took two massive risks in the final over of the day, bowled by Panesar, but lived to fight another day on 22.
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Jan 4 2007, 02:02 AM
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I think they are meant to start play early today, but it keeps raining in the morning, and then gets sunny
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5th Test :: Day 3 :: Sydney
Australia: 393 England: 291 and 114-5

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England ended day three of the final Ashes Test under severe pressure at 114-5 in their second innings, leading a buoyant Australia by a mere 12 runs.
Shane Warne marked his last Test with a cavalier innings of 71 off 65 balls, the top score in Australia's 393.
Only Kevin Pietersen (29no) withstood the Australian bowlers as the hosts closed in on the first Ashes whitewash since England's 5-0 defeat in 1920-21.
Brett Lee and Stuart Clark struck twice and Warne had Andrew Flintoff stumped.
England began the day needing to rock Australia's middle order with the second new ball still a distant prospect.
They got the ideal start when Michael Hussey was caught behind off James Anderson in the second over of the day to leave the Aussies 190-5, still 101 runs behind.
But Australia's last five wickets produced more runs than their first five as the balance of power shifted towards the hosts either side of lunch.
Adam Gilchrist (62) and Andrew Symonds (48) began the onslaught by adding 70 for the sixth wicket.
And when Monty Panesar beat Symonds' loose drive to bowl him middle-and-off, Warne hit his first ball for four and his second for six.
He survived a massive appeal for caught-behind off Panesar on 10, and could also have been run out twice early in his innings.
But England's fielding was not at its sharpest on Thursday - Gilchrist also survived two tough chances in the 20s - and Australia seized the initiative ruthlessly.
Gilchrist had hit 102 not out from 59 balls in Perth, and with some booming drives and a symphony of stunning cut shots he threatened something similar here.
His stand with Warne was worth 58 in barely seven overs when Read went up for a catch off Anderson and umpire Billy Bowden erroneously gave the decision to England.
But Warne was unbeaten on 40 at lunch and had the appetite for plenty more runs.
Flintoff removed Lee cheaply but a killer stand of 68 for the ninth wicket then developed as Warne and Clark rode their luck and England's defensive fields yielded some easy runs.
Warne, whose highest Test score is 99, must have had half a mind on a maiden Test century.
But Sajid Mahmood finally forced Clark to give Kevin Pietersen an easy catch in the covers and Warne - who had used his feet so well against Panesar - was last man out, stumped.
He had faced just 65 balls for his runs, hitting nine fours and two sixes.
It was advantage Australia, and Lee tore into England's top order with the new ball.
Alastair Cook got nowhere near middling an attempted pull, and was out having faced just eight balls.
And soon afterwards Strauss had to take cricket's equivalent of a standing count after copping another Lee torpedo flush on the part of the helmet protecting his temple.
He bravely continued and, helped by Ian Bell, ensured England reached tea without having lost any futher wickets.
But the Aussies dealt out four hammer blows in the final session.
Strauss, clearly unsettled by the earlier bouncer, was lbw to a ball from Clark that straightened before Bell played a loose drive to a wide delivery to be caught behind off Lee.
Paul Collingwood made his sixth low score in succession as he drove a Clark leg-cutter to gully and when Flintoff dragged his back toe over the popping crease, Gilchrist pounced to stump the England skipper.
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5th Test :: Day 4 :: Sydney
Australia: 393 and 46-0 England: 291 and 147
Australia win by 10 wickets - and win the Ashes series 5-0

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England were pulverised on the fourth day of the Sydney Test as the Australia juggernaut swept to a 10-wicket win.
The resultant 5-0 whitewash was the first since 1920-21 and was a fitting send-off for Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Justin Langer in their final Test.
McGrath took two wickets as England were all out for 147 after resuming on 114-5, leaving Australia to score just 46 for victory.
And Langer and Matthew Hayden knocked off the runs with ease in 10.5 overs.
At the start of play, the Barmy Army were at least hoping to salute a few lusty blows from Kevin Pietersen, but he fell to the third ball of the morning without adding to his overnight score of 29.
McGrath produced the kind of delivery that has epitomised his 13-year Test career - just back of a length outside off stump, seaming away - and Pietersen edged to Adam Gilchrist.
England had still not registered a run in the day when Chris Read called Monty Panesar through for a run.
His partner responded a fraction slowly, and Andrew Symonds' bullet-like throw from extra cover knocked out middle stump with Panesar short of his ground.
Finally, there were a couple of boundaries. An edge through a gap in the slip cordons got Sajid Mahmood off the mark and Read middled a cover-drive off Brett Lee.
Time for an England rally? Not a bit of it. As if to scoff at such petulance, Lee had Read caught at second slip by Ricky Ponting and Mahmood was bowled off his pads by McGrath.
Steve Harmison lofted McGrath for four over mid-on as he and James Anderson kept Australia in the outfield a little longer.
Warne almost had Harmison lbw - an appeal went to the third umpire who ruled in the benefit of the batsman.
But the honour of the last wicket went to another of Australia's retirees - McGrath, who ended with six in the match.
Anderson tried a speculative on-drive but gave an easy catch to Michael Hussey at mid-on.
It was the last wicket of the 2006-07 Ashes.
As McGrath and Warne began their farewells, they left the stage to the third great Australian exiting the international stage.
Justin Langer, accompanied by fellow opener and best mate Matthew Hayden, walked out with the Aussies chasing a tiny target.
The only question was whether England could remove either man before the home team could begin to uncork the celebratory liquor.
In a microcosm of the entire series, the tourists' bowlers were unable to trouble Langer and Hayden at all.
A massive six from Hayden off Mahmood left Australia one run from the winning post and the next ball was glided through the covers.
Langer and Hayden removed their helmets and embraced warmly.
Next, the two players shook hands with the opponents they had conquered - Langer had a special word with old Middlesex team-mate Andrew Strauss.
The other Aussies came onto the field and the celebrations could really begin.
Warne's three children and McGrath's two posed for a photograph with two of Australia's most famous dads and the interviews and presentations started.
For the record, Stuart Clark was named man of the match but narrowly lost out on the man of the series accolade, with his captain Ricky Ponting accepting that prize.
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Jan 5 2007, 10:39 PM
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Sorry to say, but England got royally smashed.
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Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel (NSP) today announced its 12-man squad for the sold out KFC Twenty20 International match against England at the SCG on 9 January.
As was the case last summer, the Australian team will be sporting nicknames as well as a ‘silver and gold’ strip, specifically produced for Twenty20 cricket.
Music, sound effects and increased crowd interaction will also be part of the Twenty20 ‘summer slam’ show.
The Australian team is as follows:Name Nickname Ricky Ponting PUNTER Adam Gilchrist CHURCH Matthew Hayden HAYDOS Mike Hussey HUSS Michael Clarke CLARKEY Andrew Symonds ROY Cameron White BEAR Brad Hogg GEORGE Nathan Bracken ANDY G Mitchell Johnson NOTCH Brett Lee BINGA Ben Hilfenhaus HILFY
NSP Chairman Andrew Hilditch said the Twenty20 match gave the panel a great opportunity to move players from Test to limited-overs mode.
“The Twenty20 format is an ideal lead up to one-day cricket which is why the selected squad closely mirrors that of the Commonwealth Bank Series squad.
“We have however agreed that both Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark will not play in this game to best manage their preparation for the second half of the summer.
“We’re also introducing Ben Hilfenhaus for his first match for Australia following a tremendous start to the domestic season as well as his impressive efforts over the winter as an AIS scholar at the Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence and during the Top End Series for Australia ‘A’.”
The KFC Twenty20 International takes place on 9 January 2007 at the SCG, with the match commencing at 7.30pm.
Fans attending the match will be in for a special treat when England’s most famous DJ, Judge Jules, takes on Australian Grant Smillie in a DJ battle as part of the pre-game build up.
The match will be broadcast live by the Nine Network while Triple J is also airing a special ball-by-ball call of the contest featuring H.G Nelson, Scott Dooley and Chris Taylor from “The Chaser.”
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Jan 6 2007, 12:42 PM
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I think our team should be:
Strauss Vaughan Bell Joyce Collingwood Dalrymple Nixon Plunkett Lewis Tremlett Panesar
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Jan 6 2007, 04:13 PM
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Nah, If Trescothick is up to it he has to play. He is probably englands best one-day player.
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Jan 6 2007, 04:16 PM
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How can he? He's not in the ODI squad.
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Jan 7 2007, 03:56 AM
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match starts at 7.30, I think i might go to it.
Those commentators, HG Nelson is absolutely hilarious, Chris Taylor is from The Chaser, that is probably the funniest show on Australian TV. I got their season DVDs for Christmas
here are some clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-neWG58Itgk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4us4_lWrVs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbzMFTWxJmI
there are many more on you tube.
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Jan 7 2007, 11:12 AM
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Nah, If Trescothick is up to it he has to play. He is probably englands best one-day player.
He's not even in Australia!
@hughgeta - With two days to go before the match, you've decided you may go - are tickets that easy to get?
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Jan 7 2007, 11:17 PM
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I looked up the tickets last night, the cheapest one is around $45 <_< And I don't think there are that many left.
Maybe I will go to the state Twenty20 game, NSW v Tasmania instead, which is the day after.
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