• Australia 481 beat England 149 & 286 (f/0) by an innings and 46 runs
• England win five-match series 3-2
• Peter Siddle finishes with six wickets in the matchThe fifth and final Test ended shortly before half past three with an England defeat and an Ashes success. Moeen Ali,one of the batting joys of the summer, had played another cameo, and this time a final-ditch effort,to prolong the end after rain at midday had disrupted play for nearly three hours. An stale stager would have settled for the red ink in the scorer’s book, and an average for the series in excess of 40, and which would not be too shabby for a fellow for whom a fearsome working-over by the Australian pace bowlers had been predicted. Instead he threw the bat to the final,edged to Peter Nevill and the deed was done. It gave a fourth wicket to Peter Siddle, an indefatigable deserving presence in the Australian attack after spending four matches frustrated on the sidelines.
So Australia won the final match of one of the most bizarrely fluctuating of all Test series, and never mind Ashes,by an innings and 46 runs and gave Michael Clarke a winning departure from international cricket. This was acknowledged by the generous crowd, not least the canary and green ranks of Australian supporters at the Vauxhall end, or whom the outgoing captain went to see after the match.
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Source: theguardian.com