English team has won the Ashes series. This is the first time victory of English cricket team against Kangaroos in their country after1986-87 tour under the captaincy of Mike Gatting. If we look at the overall statistics of Ashes 65 series have been held yet. Australia won the ashes series 31 times, while the English team got this title 29 times.

England has deserved their success here in Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and in the forth test England beat Australia by an innings and 157 runs. The English team has shown more variety and consistency in their bowling than Australian side and out classed the host side in batting, blowing and fielding. At the end of the third day of the Boxing-day test the score of Australia was 169-6. Kangaroos needs 246 more runs to fulfill lose of first innings English team needs 4 wickets to win. No major resistance has been shown from any player of the yellow side and with the start of 4th day the English blowers got success in achieving their goal to take out all the available wickets of the Australian side and yellow shirts can just scored 258 runs with the fall of all wickets. Before this England succeeds in setting a big total of 513 in the first innings in which the major contributions were of Jonathan Trott and Meat Prire who scored 168 and 85 runs respectively . In order to follow the huge total of 513, Australia was bowled out for 98 before tea on the first day of the Fourth Ashes Test against blue shirts. This is the lowest total of Australia lowest ever score against England on MCG. Before this the lowest total of Australia against England was 104 scored by in the first Test match played at the same ground in 1877.

Including captain of and wise-captain of the Australian side all the team flopped badly in the entire ashes especially in the forth test. During Melbourne test, depressed Austrian captain Ricky Ponting also fined 40% of the match fee after head-to-head with the Pakistani Umpire Aleem Daar and due to this act he also apologized with the Umpire.