Match Details
Drizzle results in a delayed start by 10 mins
Woakes bowled beautifully and troubled both the Australian openers
Woakes sends back Warner on 60 with a beauty in the fourth over of day five
Khawaja is trapped in front of the stumps and departs after wasting a review
Labuschagne edges one to Crawley at second slip to give Wood his first
Session 1, Drinks: AUS 175/3 (51 Overs) (Smith 11*, Head 1*)
Smith and Head take Australia past 200
The pair of Smith and Head put 50 between them off 61 balls for the fourth wicket
Smith survives on the stroke of lunch as Stokes grabs the catch but drops the ball while appealing. England lose a review in the process
Day 5, Lunch: AUS 238/3 (66 Overs) (Smith 40*, Head 31*)
Players walk out for the afternoon session but walk off immediately as it starts raining
Persistent rain washes out the second session
Day 5, Tea: AUS 238/3 (66 Overs) (Smith 40*, Head 31*)
Play starts in the evening session, with 47 overs set to be bowled
Smith brings up his 38th Test fifty and second in this Test
Moeen Ali breaks the 95-run 4th wicket partnership by luring Head for an expansive drive
Woakes produces another beauty to dismiss Smith, the priced scalp
Moeen dismisses Mitchell Marsh in his next over, with Bairstow producing a moment of brilliance behind the stumps
Mitchell Starc surrenders to another peach from Woakes
England don’t opt for the second new ball
Moeen puts Australia in the sword, getting rid of the Australian skipper
Session 3, Drinks: AUS 294/8 (81.2 Overs) (Carey 10*, Murphy 0*)
Stuart Broad comes back for one last spell in his career
Australia hobble past 300
Broad changes the bails at the bowler’s end and it results in immediate success as he removes Murphy on the very next ball on 18
Crawley drops Carey at second slip of the bowling of Broad
Carey nicks one to Bairstow to give Broad a fairytale ending as the English pacer helps England beat Australia by 49 runs.
AUS 334 (94.4 Overs) (Khawaja 72) (Woakes 4/50)
The series finishes with a scoreline reading 2-2. Australia retain the Ashes