Ashes 2021-22: Australia seal 4-0 series victory following England’s latest batting collapse

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Ashes 2021-22: Australia seal 4-0 series victory following England’s latest batting collapse

England
dismissed
Australia
for
just
155
in
their
second
innings
at
Bellerive
Oval
and
took
control
when
Rory
Burns
and
Zak
Crawley
combined
to
reach
68-0
in
reply.

But
the
tourists
fell
apart
from
that
point
and
finished
124
all
out,
meaning
it
will
be
14
years
since
their
last
away
win
in
an
Ashes
Test
by
the
time
they
return
in
2025.

The
tourists
trailed
by
152
runs
at
the
start
of
play
on
Sunday,
but
Mark
Wood
got
his
side
off
to
a
strong
start
by
taking
a
career-best
6-37
to
skittle
Australia.

The
hosts
dug
in
from
63-6
to
reach
155
all
out
and
England
gave
themselves
hope
of
chasing
down
an
improbable
271
through
Burns
and
Crawley.

The
pair
mounted
the
highest
opening
partnership
of
any
side
in
the
series,
reaching
36
and
26
respectively
but,
not
for
the
first
time
this
series,
a
batting
collapse
followed.

Cameron
Green
picked
up
3-21,
with
Dawid
Malan
(10)
his
other
victim,
and
England
added
just
36
more
runs
from
their
final
eight
wickets.

Ben
Stokes,
who
averaged
23.60
with
the
bat
this
series,
went
for
five
runs,
as
did
Ollie
Pope,
with
Joe
Root
(11)
and
Sam
Billings
(1)
doing
little
to
hold
off
Australia
either
side.

Chris
Woakes
(5)
fell
for
single
figures
the
first
time
this
series
as
he
edged
Scott
Boland
behind
on
the
drive,
before
Mark
Wood
(11)
dragged
Pat
Cummins
onto
his
stumps.

Australia
did
not
have
to
wait
long
to
take
England’s
final
wicket,
with
Ollie
Robinson
bowled
for
a
duck
by
a
Cummins
full
toss
to
end
the
tourists’ misery.


England
undone
by
Green

Burns
and
Crawley
tried
their
best
to
turn
the
fifth
Test
into
a
contest
that
could
potentially
go
to
the
wire,
but
then
up
stepped
Green
to
completely
kill
England’s
momentum.

England
were
60-0
when
Green,
who
is
the
youngest
player
to
score
a
half-century
for
Australia
at
Bellerive
Oval,
took
over
and
they
were
88-3
when
he
bowled
his
final
ball.

Incredibly,
the
tourists
were
all
out
for
124
just
22.4
overs
later.


Tourists’
woes
epitomised
by
Woakes

England
have
now
won
only
one
of
their
14
Tests
in
the
past
11
months,
but
Root
must
surely
be
left
to
wonder
what
might
have
been
in
Hobart.

A
turning
point
arrived
when
Woakes
appeared
to
have
dismissed
Alex
Carey
for
19
earlier
in
the
day,
which
would
have
left
Australia
91-7,
but
he
was
judged
to
have
overstepped.

Carey
went
on
to
make
a
crucial
49
as
Australia
comfortably
claimed
another
win
and
matched
the
margin
of
their
victory
from
four
years
ago.

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