Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
114-7
Feeble England lose two more wickets without adding anything to the overnight total
The end is nigh i.e. a 5-0 series whitewash before lunch on day 4
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
128/9
The end is nigh.
The rout is complete.
England should tour BD to regain their confidence.
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
Australia needing 46 runs to win th Ashes 5-0
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
Eng 147 all out.
Aus need 46 runs to complete a complete and utter destruction of the higly over rated English team.
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
I have the perfect song for England to sing on their flight out of Australia
*
- Baray be-aabro ho kay teray koochay se hamm niklay
*I'd say this is the worst choke job I have seen a team commit.
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
…it was inevitable. 
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
Aussies complete 5-0 Ashes sweep](http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/homepage/int/sp/shdr/hs2/t/-/news/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6231701.stm)
(cricinfo)
Langer shakes hands with everyone, Strauss patting him on the back a few times, and the Australian team run onto the pitch to soak up the party atmosphere and get the celebrations starting after a crushing, emphatic victory. A swarm of photographers crowd round a teary Langer and he smiles, now Gilchrist hugs him, now Lee. Lots of emotions out there, now it’s Symonds giving him a hug. McGrath’s turn, the two retirees share an embrace. Hussey this time. Warne and Langer now. Well done everyone.
A stony-faced Flintoff (well, stony by his standards) takes his players off the pitch. Australia of course stay on - this is their moment.
Langer now takes his bat and raises it to the jubilant crowd, while Hayden puts an arm round his shoulders. McGrath claps his hands above his head to acknowledge the crowd. Warne doffs his cap and waves a stump around. Ponting now takes his turn to tousle Langer’s hair.
“No dry eye in the house,” says Lee as McGrath steals the limelight behind him, raising his two children, James and Holly, aloft. “It’s been an amazing series,” says McGrath. “I don’t think we’ve ever played as well team-wise.” Warne’s three children are now on the pitch, as well. The Warnes and the McGraths gather now for a family shot.
Open tears now for a red-eyed Langer, who’s taking a moment to reflect on a great Test career.
Ian Healy collars Warne now. “Pretty excited, actually!” chirps Warne as if he’s somehow surprised. “Aw, look, it’s been fantastic. To finish off 5-0, sensational.”
And on McGrath’s 5-0 prediction, he says: “If he keeps saying it, he’s got to get it right once, I suppose.” Big reception for him now from all the crowd.
Langer tells Mark Taylor: “To win 5-0 it cannot get any better than that.” And he has this message for everyone: “It’s been a privilege.”
Stuart Clark wins the Man of the Match and he’s “enjoyed every minute of it.” Ricky Ponting is the Man of the Series. He wins a crystal trophy and the Compton-Miller medal. “It’s a great honour. It’s been pretty emotional.”
Andrew Flintoff called to the podium. He looks embarrassed. “I’d like to congratulate Ricky Ponting and his team,” he says, monotone, but then picks up the tone a bit when congratulating Warne, Langer and McGrath and gives his heartfelt thanks. “They’ve never given up,” he says of the England team and they clap weakly. He then thanks “the Barmy Army and every English fan out here.”
Ponting’s body language an understandable contrast and he jogs back to the podium to collect the Ashes
10.5 Mahmood to Hayden, 1 run, that’s it! It’s all over! Hayden drives that into the covers and raises his arms and his pink-handled bat immediately in celebration
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
hahahaha… jharoo phir gayee, I am sure Pommies are looking forward for the next Ashes 
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
England MBEs ‘a joke’ claims Boycott
So true 
After Shane Warne sledged Paul Collingwood on the third day at the SCG for being “awarded an MBE for scoring 7 at The Oval”, Geoff Boycott weighed in to the debate over the honours awarded to the England side in 2005.
“For 18 years England haven’t won … Australia have been beating England every two years home or away,” he said on his BBC podcast. "Suddenly, when England win, all hell breaks loose. They all get gongs at the palace. It just shows how foolish it was when they come out here two years later and are absolutely annihilated.
"I scored 8,000 runs and played a hundred Tests before I got one (Boycott was awarded the OBE in 1980) and what did he score? Seventeen runs? And the others played five Tests to get one? **I feel so bad about mine I’m going to tie it around my cat. It’s a joke. **
“Andrew Flintoff, who’s a super player, Marcus Trescothick who’s played a lot of Tests and done well, Michael Vaughan as the winning captain. But every Tom, Dick or Harry?”
Boycott added that the fact that Warne had not been recognised added to the sense of farce.
Source: http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/275211.html
It’s worth reminding that Warne took 40 wickets in 2005 Ashes.
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
Australia played really very well 
waise nothing new :CareBear:
Re: 5th Test, Australia vs England, January 2nd-6th 2007 init
5-0 
finally the hype is over