ASHES 5th TEST - England too good

And so it ends with an English Victory...Boo.

Though to be fair, they deserved it. The Australian batting was shithouse this test, with the exceptions of Smith (again, z-score of 1.4) and Wade (with a top z-score of 2.23). But there were 6 Australian players with z-scores under -0.5 (Lyon, Paine, Warner, Harris, Cummins and Hazelwood). You aren't going to win a lot of games if your openers fail and the keeper and tail don't do something with the bat).

For England, they had 4 players with z-scores over 0.5, (Butler, Denly, Stokes and Root) and only 3 under -0.5 (Broad, Archer and Woakes). So they certainly won the batting.

In regards to the bowling, Mitchell Marsh (z-score of 1.72), Joe Root (z-score of 1.53) and Leach (0.83) all had great games,  but Australia's Hazelwood (-1.02) and Siddle (-0.91) had shockers. And thats the story of the game.

I will post some Test Series summaries in a bit.