England crush Aussies to retain Ashes

England defended a Ashes with a abrasive innings as good as 157-run win in a fourth Test Wednesday, violation a 24-year divided dry weather in a array as good as withdrawal Australian captain Ricky Ponting’s destiny in doubt.
The holders’ greatest win over Australia given 1956 put them an unbeatable 2-1 up with a single to play, roughly a entertain of a century after Mike Gatting’s group claimed a array 2-1 in 1986-87 in England’s last delight in Australia.
Australia’s chagrin was finish when Ben Hilfenhaus was a last male out prior to lunch upon a fourth sunrise during a Melbourne Cricket Ground, held during a back of off Tim Bresnan for a steep after Ryan Harris was incompetent to bat since of an ankle injury.
‘Winning a Ashes in Australia has regularly been a bit of a Holy Grail for English sides,’ skipper Andrew Strauss said.
‘We haven’t won a Ashes nonetheless though you patently keep a vessel which has been a single of a initial goals as good as a guys merit all they get since a players stood up as good as completed when it mattered.’
There was usually starting to be a single result after Australia were routed for a miserable belligerent jot down low of 98 upon Sunday’s opening day after Strauss had won a toss as good as put a Australians in to bat upon a greenish wicket.
The English responded with a soaring 513 to reason a match-winning 415-run innings lead which Australia found all over them.
British Prime Minister David Cameron congratulated a England group for their ‘brilliant performance’ whilst British newspapers pronounced a Ashes delight was well-merited.
‘Retaining The Ashes for a initial time in roughly a
entertain of a century outlines a unequivocally special finish to a year for sports fans as good as a good late Yuletide benefaction for a country,’ Cameron pronounced in a matter from his office.
Australian skipper Ponting paid reverence to a tourists for their tall customary of fool around via a tour.
‘Apart from a third Perth Test, they’ve played a unequivocally tall turn of cricket a total approach through, not usually this series, though a debate games as well. Credit to them for a approach they prepared,’ he said
The abrasive detriment will store serve vigour upon embattled Ponting. It was a Australian skipper’s third disaster to win an Ashes array following his progressing defeats in England in 2005 as good as last year.
Bresnan accomplished as England’s most appropriate bowler with 4-50 off 21.4 overs, whilst England array 3 Jonathan Trott was declared man-of-the-match for his dominant 168.
In 1986 England won a array as good as a Ashes after an innings as good as 14-run feat during a MCG.
Australia can still turn a array if they can win subsequent week’s fifth Sydney Test, though a Ashes have been gone.
‘Our design was to come out here as good as win a series, so you haven’t completed which yet,’ Strauss said.
‘It’s unequivocally calming to know which a Ashes have been starting to sojourn in England for a subsequent integrate of years, though it would leave a unequivocally green ambience in a mouth if you weren’t means to go upon as good as modify a upon all sides in to a array win in Sydney.’
England last won during a MCG in 1998 with Dean Headley receiving 6-60 in a second innings as a tourists won by usually twelve nail-biting runs.
The complicated better was usually Australia’s second in their last twelve MCG Tests, a prior entrance dual years ago opposite South Africa by 9 wickets.
It was England’s 20th win in 54 Ashes Tests during a MCG.
A tiny crowd, dominated by a celebrating Barmy Army as good as alternative English supporters, witnessed a last rites with a Australian fans giving up upon a mislaid cause.
British newspapers pronounced England comprehensively outplayed a lifeless Aussies as good as were deserved winners.
‘This represents a triumph, a clearance of months of tough work as good as planning,’ pronounced The Times.
English commentators burnished their hands with joviality during a bad display by a Australians, with The Guardian branding them ‘rudderless as good as between a also-rans.’ Ponting, who is approaching to reason upon to a captaincy for subsequent week’s Sydney Test, aptness needing with his fractured small finger, pronounced he hoped story would not usually concentration upon his 3 Ashes defeats.
‘The actuality which I’ve mislaid those 3 Test array is unsatisfactory for me,’ he said.
‘Hopefully, we am not usually remembered as a man which mislaid those 3 Ashes series, there’s lot of alternative good things I’ve been partial of in my career.’