{"id":42720,"date":"2018-01-08T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42720"},"modified":"2018-01-08T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T09:55:10","slug":"australia-rout-england-by-an-innings-to-win-ashes-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42720","title":{"rendered":"Australia rout England by an innings to win Ashes 4-0"},"content":{"rendered":"

SYDNEY Jan 08 (TNS):<\/strong> Australia ruthlessly extinguished England\u00b4s resistance to claim an innings victory in the fifth Ashes Test and complete a 4-0 series rout on the final day in Sydney on Monday.<\/p>\n

The beleaguered tourists, with skipper Joe Root weakened by a stomach bug and unable to continue batting, dissolved after lunch, losing their last four wickets for their fourth comprehensive defeat of the series.<\/p>\n

“It has been a great couple of months. The cricket that we have played in the last couple of months has been outstanding,” Australia skipper Steve Smith said.<\/p>\n

“We have just been able to get on top and win those key moments and not let them back in the game which is crucial.”<\/p>\n

Pat Cummins led the Australian offensive in Sydney with four wickets for 39 to finish man-of-the-match and the leading wicket taker in the series with 23.<\/p>\n

“To get through the five Tests and end the series here at home. I couldn\u00b4t asked for much more,” said an ecstatic Cummins.<\/p>\n

England finished at 180 for nine off 88.1 overs as Australia won by an innings and 123 runs.<\/p>\n

It followed comprehensive losses on the troubled five-Test tour in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The fourth Test was drawn in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Stricken Root did not come out to bat after lunch as he continued to experience discomfort after his overnight stomach bug.<\/p>\n

“He is asleep. He has a gastro bug and he has not been too well through the night and the heat yesterday didn\u00b4t help. He is asleep in the dressing-room trying to recover,” said vice-captain Jimmy Anderson, deputising for Root at the post-match presentations.<\/p>\n

“To be honest we have been outplayed in the key moments of each game,” he added.<\/p>\n

“We have been in the games to an extent but just not been able to capitalise on any opportunities. Australia have played great in this series.”<\/p>\n

Cummins struck twice in three balls after lunch, trapping Jonny Bairstow leg before wicket for 38 and having Stuart Broad caught behind off a brutish bouncer for four.<\/p>\n

Mason Crane got another Cummins bouncer which he gloved to wicketkeeper Tim Paine for two and Anderson was caught behind off Josh Hazlewood for two to end the innings.<\/p>\n

Root went to hospital overnight with England Cricket initially saying he had “severe dehydration” after fielding and batting in intense heat on Sunday.<\/p>\n

But team officials corrected earlier statements and said Root was instead weakened by the effects of a gastroenteritis bug.<\/p>\n

He came out to bat on the dismissal of Moeen Ali for 13 an hour into the final day\u00b4s play and reached his fifth half-century of the series, but was unable to convert any of them to a century.<\/p>\n

England\u00b4s remote chances of saving the Test disappeared when Root failed to appear at the crease after lunch.<\/p>\n

Spinner Nathan Lyon claimed Moeen\u00b4s wicket for the seventh time in the series when he trapped him leg before in the morning session, which Moeen did not review.<\/p>\n

Lyon took three wickets for 54 off 35 overs.<\/p>\n

The Australians took a grip on the final Test with a massive 303-run innings lead and then reduced the battle-weary tourists to 93 for four at the close on the fourth day.<\/p>\n

All five Tests went into the fifth day.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SYDNEY Jan 08 (TNS): Australia ruthlessly extinguished England\u00b4s resistance to claim an innings victory in the fifth Ashes Test and complete a 4-0 series rout on the final day in Sydney on Monday. The beleaguered tourists, with skipper Joe Root weakened by a stomach bug and unable to continue batting, dissolved after lunch, losing their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[330],"class_list":["post-42720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42722,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42720\/revisions\/42722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}