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Test No. 2291

The Ashes 2017-18
2017-18 season
Australia vs England - 5th Test
04-08 January, 2018 (5-day match)

Australia won the 5-match series 4-0

Venue : Sydney Cricket Ground
Toss : England won the toss and elected to bat first
Result : Australia won by an innings and 123 runs


England 1st Innings
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Alastair Cook lbw b Hazlewood
39 
104 
3 
0
37.50 
»
 Mark Stoneman c Paine b Cummins
24 
24 
4 
0
100.00 
»
 James Vince c Paine b Cummins
25 
54 
4 
0
46.30 
»
 Joe Root c MR Marsh b Starc
83 
141 
8 
0
58.87 
»
 Dawid Malan c Smith b Starc
62 
180 
6 
0
34.44 
»
 Jonny Bairstow c Paine b Hazlewood
5 
7 
1 
0
71.43 
»
 Moeen Ali c Paine b Cummins
30 
58 
2 
0
51.72 
»
 Tom Curran c Bancroft b Cummins
39 
65 
6 
0
60.00 
»
 Stuart Broad c Smith b Lyon
31 
32 
1 
2
96.88 
»
 Mason Crane run out
4 
7 
0 
0
57.14 
»
 James Anderson Not Out
0 
3 
0 
0
0.00 
Extras LB 2, W 2
4
Total : (all out in 112.3 overs)
346
 RR : 3.08

Fall of wickets : 1-28 (MD Stoneman, 9.5 ov), 2-88 (JM Vince, 28.5 ov), 3-95 (AN Cook, 32.3 ov), 4-228 (JE Root, 80.3 ov), 5-233 (JM Bairstow, 81.4 ov), 6-251 (DJ Malan, 88.4 ov), 7-294 (MM Ali, 102.4 ov), 8-335 (TK Curran, 108.4 ov), 9-346 (SCJ Broad, 111.4 ov), 10-346 (MS Crane, 112.3 ov)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Mitchell Starc
21
6 
80 
2
3.81
0
0
»
 Josh Hazlewood
23
4 
65 
2
2.83
0
0
»
 Pat Cummins
24
 .3
5 
80 
4
3.27
0
2
»
 Nathan Lyon
37
5 
86 
1
2.32
0
0
»
 Mitchell Marsh
7
0 
33 
0
4.71
0
0

Australia 1st Innings
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Cameron Bancroft b Broad
0 
7 
0 
0
0.00 
»
 David Warner c Bairstow b Anderson
56 
104 
6 
0
53.85 
»
 Usman Khawaja st Bairstow b Crane
171 
381 
18 
1
44.88 
»
 Steven Smith b Ali
83 
158 
5 
0
52.53 
»
 Shaun Marsh run out
156 
291 
18 
0
53.61 
»
 Mitchell Marsh b Curran
101 
141 
15 
2
71.63 
»
 Tim Paine Not Out
38 
52 
2 
0
73.08 
»
 Mitchell Starc c Vince b Ali
11 
10 
0 
1
110.00 
»
 Pat Cummins Not Out
24 
16 
4 
0
150.00 
Extras B 2, LB 4, W 1, N 2
9
Total : (7 wickets dec in 193.0 overs)
649
 RR : 3.36

did not bat: Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon

Fall of wickets : 1-1 (CT Bancroft, 1.2 ov), 2-86 (DA Warner, 31.4 ov), 3-274 (SPD Smith, 93.1 ov), 4-375 (UT Khawaja, 130.4 ov), 5-544 (MR Marsh, 173.2 ov), 6-596 (SE Marsh, 185.6 ov), 7-613 (MA Starc, 188.4 ov)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 James Anderson
34
14 
56 
1
1.65
0
0
»
 Stuart Broad
30
2 
121 
1
4.03
0
0
»
 Moeen Ali
48
10 
170 
2
3.54
0
0
»
 Tom Curran
25
3 
82 
1
3.28
0
1
»
 Mason Crane
48
3 
193 
1
4.02
2
0
»
 Joe Root
8
3 
21 
0
2.63
0
0

England 2nd Innings
R 
B 
4s 
6s
SR 
»
 Alastair Cook b Lyon
10 
20 
0 
0
50.00 
»
 Mark Stoneman lbw b Starc
0 
9 
0 
0
0.00 
»
 James Vince c Smith b Cummins
18 
51 
1 
0
35.29 
»
 Joe Root retire hurt
58 
167 
1 
0
34.73 
»
 Dawid Malan lbw b Lyon
5 
27 
0 
0
18.52 
»
 Jonny Bairstow lbw b Cummins
38 
143 
4 
0
26.57 
»
 Moeen Ali lbw b Lyon
13 
43 
1 
0
30.23 
»
 Tom Curran Not Out
23 
40 
5 
0
57.50 
»
 Stuart Broad c Paine b Cummins
4 
2 
1 
0
200.00 
»
 Mason Crane c Paine b Cummins
2 
4 
0 
0
50.00 
»
 James Anderson c Paine b Hazlewood
2 
23 
0 
0
8.70 
Extras LB 2, Pen 5
7
Total : (all out in 88.1 overs)
180
 RR : 2.04

Fall of wickets : 1-5 (MD Stoneman, 2.6 ov), 2-15 (AN Cook, 5.5 ov), 3-43 (JM Vince, 20.6 ov), 4-68 (DJ Malan, 33.4 ov), 4-93 (JE Root, ), 5-121 (MM Ali, 61.2 ov), 5-144 (JE Root, ), 6-144 (JM Bairstow, 77.4 ov), 7-148 (SCJ Broad, 77.6 ov), 8-156 (MS Crane, 81.1 ov), 9-180 (JM Anderson, 88.1 ov)

Bowlers
O
M
R
W
RPO
NB
Wd
  
»
 Mitchell Starc
16
4 
38 
1
2.38
0
0
»
 Josh Hazlewood
17
 .1
6 
36 
1
2.10
0
0
»
 Nathan Lyon
35
12 
54 
3
1.54
0
0
»
 Pat Cummins
17
4 
39 
4
2.29
0
0
»
 Steven Smith
2
0 
6 
0
3.00
0
0
»
 Mitchell Marsh
1
1 
0 
0
0.00
0
0

Match details
Debuts: MS Crane (England)
Man of the Match: Pat Cummins (Australia)
Man of the Series : Steven Smith (Australia)
Umpires : Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) and Joel Wilson (West Indies)
Third Umpire: Sundaram Ravi (India)
Referee : Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve Umpire: Gerard Abood (Australia)
Close of Play
Day 1 : 04 Jan - England 1st innings 233/5 (DJ Malan 55*, 81.4 ov)
Day 2 : 05 Jan - Australia 1st innings 193/2 (UT Khawaja 91*, SPD Smith 44*, 67 ov)
Day 3 : 06 Jan - Australia 1st innings 479/4 (SE Marsh 98*, MR Marsh 63*, 157 ov)
Day 4 : 07 Jan - England 2nd innings 93/4 (JE Root 42*, JM Bairstow 17*, 46 ov)
Day 5 : 08 Jan - England 2nd innings 180 (TK Curran 23*, 88.1 ov) - end of match

Teams:
Australia Cameron Bancroft, David Warner, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Pat Cummins, Shaun Marsh, Steven Smith (Capt.), Tim Paine (wk), Usman Khawaja
England Alastair Cook, Dawid Malan, James Anderson, James Vince, Joe Root (Capt.), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Mark Stoneman, Mason Crane, Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Tom Curran
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