Ashes 2009 : England beat Australia in the final - Highlights

England Beat Australia by 179 runs. Wins the series 2-1
England 1st inn: 332 all out , Bell 72
Australia 1nd inn: 160 all out , Katich 50
England 2nd Inn: 373-9 , Trott 119
Australia 2nd inn: 348 all out , Hussey 121
Player of the match : Stuart Broad , Player of series : M Clarke and A Strauss

Highlights: (click here for video highlights)
England had fully taken the revenge of 5-0 defeat in 2006-07 Ashes. This time the England team has come up with 2-1 victory.

The final test came to an end on the last session of day 4. With one more day to go England came over Australia. It was always the fact that England bowled a superb first innings where they restricted Australia for 160 still 172 runs behind. Ten nothing went for Australia. England batted superbly in the second innings and set the target of 546 runs from about 9 and half session of test cricket.

England's pace bowler Stuart Broad came hero taking five wickets in the 1st innings. Spinner Graeme Swann supported him a lot with four in his bag. Debutant Trott made an impressive century in second innings. Chasing 546, Aussie had somehow good start and they seemed to be quite happy before they loose their captain and vice both from silly run outs. Mike Hussey tried a lot scoring 121 runs but became the last one to get out. Swann piked again 4 wickets and Harmission struck 3 wickets in the secod innings.

Scorecard:

ENG vs AUS, 5th Test at London - ENG 1st Innings

Match Details	TEST at London, Aug 20, 2009 - Aug 24, 2009
Series	The Ashes
Match Venue	Kennington Oval, London, England
Match Officials	Billy Bowden And Asad Rauf (Umpire), Ranjan Madugalle (Match Referee), Peter Hartley (Tv Umpire), Jeremy Lloyds (Reserve Umpire)
England 332/10 (90.5) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR AJ Strauss (c) c BJ Haddin b BW Hilfenhaus 55 101 11 0 54.46 AN Cook c RT Ponting b PM Siddle 10 12 2 0 83.33 IR Bell b PM Siddle 72 137 10 0 52.55 PD Collingwood c MEK Hussey b PM Siddle 24 65 3 0 36.92 Jonathan Trott run out (SM Katich) 41 81 5 0 50.62 MJ Prior (wk) c SR Watson b MG Johnson 18 33 2 0 54.55 A Flintoff c BJ Haddin b MG Johnson 7 19 1 0 36.84 SCJ Broad c RT Ponting b BW Hilfenhaus 37 69 5 0 53.62 GP Swann c BJ Haddin b PM Siddle 18 28 2 0 64.29 JM Anderson lbw b BW Hilfenhaus 0 6 0 0 0.00 SJ Harmison not out 12 12 3 0 100.00
Extras : 38 (b:12, lb:5, nb:18, wd:3) Total : 332/10 (90.5) Curr.RR: 3.66
FOW : AN Cook (12-1, 5.3), AJ Strauss (114-2, 28.1), PD Collingwood (176-3, 47.5), IR Bell (181-4, 53.5), MJ Prior (229-5, 65.3), A Flintoff (247-6, 69.4), Jonathan Trott (268-7, 74.2), GP Swann (307-8, 85.3), JM Anderson (308-9, 86.6), SCJ Broad (332-10, 90.5)
Australia O M R W Nb Wd Econ BW Hilfenhaus 21.5 5 71 3 5 0 3.25 PM Siddle 21 6 75 4 4 0 3.57 SR Clark 14 5 41 0 0 0 2.93 MG Johnson 15 0 69 2 8 3 4.60 MJ North 14 3 33 0 1 0 2.36 SR Watson 5 0 26 0 0 0 5.20

Australia 1st innings:

Australia 160/10 (52.5) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR SR Watson lbw b SCJ Broad 34 69 7 0 49.28 SM Katich c AN Cook b GP Swann 50 107 7 0 46.73 RT Ponting (c) b SCJ Broad 8 15 1 0 53.33 MEK Hussey lbw b SCJ Broad 0 3 0 0 0.00 MJ Clarke c A Flintoff b SCJ Broad 3 7 0 0 42.86 MJ North lbw b GP Swann 8 17 1 0 47.06 BJ Haddin (wk) b SCJ Broad 1 9 0 0 11.11 MG Johnson c MJ Prior b GP Swann 11 24 2 0 45.83 PM Siddle not out 26 39 5 0 66.67 SR Clark c AN Cook b GP Swann 6 8 1 0 75.00 BW Hilfenhaus b A Flintoff 6 20 1 0 30.00

Extras : 7 (b:1, lb:5, nb:1, wd:0) Total : 160/10 (52.5) Curr.RR: 3.03

FOW : SR Watson (73-1, 22.6), RT Ponting (85-2, 26.6), MEK Hussey (89-3, 28.3), MJ Clarke (93-4, 30.2), MJ North (108-5, 35.3), SM Katich (109-6, 37.1), BJ Haddin (111-7, 38.4), MG Johnson (131-8, 43.5), SR Clark (143-9, 47.3), BW Hilfenhaus (160-10, 52.5)

England O M R W Nb Wd Econ JM Anderson 9 3 29 0 0 0 3.22 A Flintoff 13.5 4 35 1 0 0 2.53 * GP Swann 14 3 38 4 0 0 2.71 SJ Harmison 4 1 15 0 1 0 3.75 SCJ Broad 12 1 37 5 0 0 3.08

England - 2nd Innings:

England 373/9 Decl (95) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR AJ Strauss (c) c MJ Clarke b MJ North 75 191 8 0 39.27 AN Cook c MJ Clarke b MJ North 9 35 0 0 25.71 IR Bell c SM Katich b MG Johnson 4 7 1 0 57.14 PD Collingwood c SM Katich b MG Johnson 1 7 0 0 14.29 Jonathan Trott c MJ North b SR Clark 119 193 12 0 61.66 MJ Prior (wk) run out (SM Katich) 4 9 1 0 44.44 A Flintoff c PM Siddle b MJ North 22 18 4 0 122.22 SCJ Broad c RT Ponting b MJ North 29 36 5 0 80.56 GP Swann c BJ Haddin b BW Hilfenhaus 63 54 9 0 116.67 JM Anderson not out 15 29 2 0 51.72 SJ Harmison

Extras : 32 (b:1, lb:15, nb:9, wd:7) Total : 373/9 (95) Curr.RR: 3.93

FOW : AN Cook (27-1, 12.3), IR Bell (34-2, 15.4), PD Collingwood (39-3, 17.3), AJ Strauss (157-4, 54.3), MJ Prior (168-5, 57.6), A Flintoff (200-6, 64.1), SCJ Broad (243-7, 74.2), GP Swann (333-8, 87.4), Jonathan Trott (373-9, 94.6)

Australia - 2nd innings: Australia 348/10 (102.2) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR SR Watson lbw b SCJ Broad 40 81 6 0 49.38 SM Katich lbw b GP Swann 43 68 7 0 63.24 RT Ponting (c) run out (A Flintoff) 66 103 10 0 64.08 MEK Hussey c AN Cook b GP Swann 121 263 14 0 46.01 MJ Clarke run out (AJ Strauss) 0 4 0 0 0.00 MJ North st MJ Prior b GP Swann 10 24 2 0 41.67 BJ Haddin (wk) c AJ Strauss b GP Swann 34 49 6 0 69.39 MG Johnson c PD Collingwood b SJ Harmison 0 5 0 0 0.00 PM Siddle c A Flintoff b SJ Harmison 10 14 1 0 71.43 SR Clark c AN Cook b SJ Harmison 0 1 0 0 0.00 BW Hilfenhaus not out 4 8 1 0 50.00 Extras : 20 (b:7, lb:7, nb:6, wd:0) Total : 348/10 (102.2) Curr.RR: 3.40 FOW : SM Katich (86-1, 23.6), SR Watson (90-2, 24.3), RT Ponting (217-3, 63.6), MJ Clarke (220-4, 64.5), MJ North (236-5, 72.2), BJ Haddin (327-6, 94.4), MG Johnson (327-7, 95.5), PM Siddle (343-8, 99.4), SR Clark (343-9, 99.5), MEK Hussey (348-10, 102.2) England O M R W Nb Wd Econ JM Anderson 13 3 46 0 1 0 3.54 A Flintoff 11 1 42 0 1 0 3.82 SJ Harmison 16 5 54 3 4 0 3.38 * GP Swann 39.2 7 120 4 0 0 3.05 SCJ Broad 22 4 71 1 0 0 3.23 PD Collingwood 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.00

Australia O M R W Nb Wd Econ BW Hilfenhaus 11 1 58 1 4 0 5.27 PM Siddle 18 3 77 0 0 2 4.28 MJ North 30 4 98 4 0 1 3.27 MG Johnson 17 1 60 2 5 2 3.53 SM Katich 5 2 9 0 0 0 1.80 SR Clark 12 2 37 1 0 0 3.08 MJ Clarke 2 0 18 0 0 0 9.00