Australia retain Ashes with thrilling win over England at Old Trafford

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By Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport in Old Trafford
Australia finally broke England’s brave resistance to retain the Ashes having a 185-run victory in the fourth Test at Old Trafford.
Amid incredible tension on the fifth day, England ninth-wicket set Craig Overton and also Jack Leach lived for 14 overs from the new ball.
But after Leach turned into the leg-spin of Marnus Labuschagne to short leg, Overton was lbw into Josh Hazlewood to give Australia victory with 13.3 of this day’s 98 overs remaining.
England started pursuing 383, but more realistically looking to bat through the day and set up a series decider.
53 was made by joe Denly, while Jonny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Jos Buttler showed defiance as well as also the Overton spent 105 chunks.
But the relentless Australia assault was too much to hold back as pace bowler Pat Cummins ended with 4-43.
This means Australia will leave all the urn for the first time to the UK since 2001, while the Ashes will not be added by England to the World Cup they won in July.
England must now win the Exam if they are supposed to avoid suffering their first home series defeat against any side as 2014.
The Evaluation – trainer Trevor Bayliss’ final game in cost – starts Thursday.
Regardless of the result, England can not be accused of too little struggle in their bidding to follow the World Cup and their third-Test triumph up with a more notable Sunday.
Denly to the day’s ball was cheered by a crowd that was ready England to hang , and the Kent batsman came through a range of scares to register his next half-century as many matches.
Roy played within himself 31 out of 67 balls to be bowled by Cummins, who’d Ben Stokes. Denly punched off-spinner Lyon to leg after lunch, nevertheless England had plenty defiance left.
Buttler used up 14 overs with Overton. Even that wasn’t the end Though Buttler’s 111-ball vigil was when he played with no taken to Hazlewood’s wonderful inswinger.
Leach joined Overton to face the 2nd ball. Every defensive stroke every event that a new set of gloves arose out of the dressing room was greeted with delight by a bunch than .
It punctured the air and finished a 51-ball remain After Matthew Wade captured Leach.
Two overs later, Overton, who had overturned being given out lbw to Cummins, had been pinned by a Hazlewood inswinger and, this time, the review could not save him.
Cummins eliminated Rory Burns and ruler Joe Root in consecutive balls about the evening and it had been the world’s number one bowler who led the Australia assault.
Along with Mitchell and Hazlewood Starc tested England’s patience with accuracy, technique with motion, also mettle with controversy.
Frequently they rotated at the end to off-spinner Lyon, that fought to supply a constant danger, but did account for Denly with rebound and, later, Jofra Archer with one which scuttled.
In between, left-armer Starc got you to nip back and then trap Bairstow leg and, once the ball had shifting after 58 overs, the replacement swung enabling the beauty that accounted for Buttler to be produced by Hazlewood.
Only against Overton and Leach’s pairing failed so the fast men start to show signs of fatigue.
Australia turned into Labuschagne, who had only five balls as they assembled to observe the Overton review to send, subsequently, the conclusion sparked celebrations.
Only one touring team – England at 2010-11 – have finished a series together with the Ashes. That their own drought has been ended by this Australia side is a remarkable turnaround in the turmoil of the ball-tampering scandal.
That controversy has contributed to the house audiences taunting them throughout this show, none more so than captain Steve Smith.
He responded with runs in five innings and has been backed up with some pace bowling by Cummins and Hazlewood.
Australia would have secured the urn in the Evaluation and one of those all-time fantastic innings had Stokes not played with to offer England a more one-wicket win.
England can point to the rain that denied them success in the next Test at Lord’s and the injury that mastered him out for the rest of the series and hit James Anderson on the first morning of the Test.
However, in a contest of two components that are delicate batting, the Smith has been the gap and Australia’s bowling has carried a constant threat.
Analysis and opinion from the cricket correspondent of the BBC.

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