First Test

On the opening day, Peter Siddle

Peter Siddle

Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...

 – celebrating his 26th birthday – took a hat-trick

Hat-trick

A hat-trick or hat trick in sport is the achievement of a positive feat three times during a game, or other achievements based on threes. The term was first used in 1858 in cricket to describe HH Stephenson's feat of taking three wickets in three balls. A collection was held for Stephenson, and he...

 and achieved his best Test career figures to date with 6/54. He dismissed Cook (caught Watson), Prior (bowled) and Broad (lbw) to take the first Ashes hat-trick since Darren Gough

Darren Gough

Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him...

 took three wickets in Sydney in 1999. The hat-trick reduced England from a comfortable 4/197 to a less competitive 7/197, and England were eventually all out in their first innings for 260. Debutant Xavier Doherty

Xavier Doherty

Xavier John Doherty is an Australian cricketer who plays Australian domestic cricket with the Tasmanian Tigers and for the Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left arm orthodox bowler...

 also took his first Test wicket by dismissing Ian Bell during the innings.

In reply, Australia were reduced to 143/5 before Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...

 and Brad Haddin's partnership of 307 runs, a record sixth-wicket partnership at The Gabba, saw them finish on 481 all out. Although bowler Steven Finn

Steven Finn (cricketer)

Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...

 finished with figures of 6/125 on his Ashes debut, England conceded a 221-run first innings deficit.

England amassed a huge 517/1 declared in their second innings to overcome their large first innings deficit. Strauss (110) and Cook (235 not out) made a 188-run opening partnership; an English record at the ground, during which they overtook Jack Hobbs

Jack Hobbs

Sir John Berry "Jack" Hobbs was an English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches from 1908 to 1930....

 and Herbert Sutcliffe

Herbert Sutcliffe

Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two World Wars...

 as England's highest-scoring pair of opening batsmen. Jonathan Trott (135 not out) joined Cook for an unbeaten 329-run partnership before England declared in anticipation for a draw. Cook's score of 235 not out broke Donald Bradman

Donald Bradman

Sir Donald George Bradman, AC , often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time...

's record for the highest Test score at the Gabba.

With the target at 297 runs from 41 overs for victory, Australia moved to 107/1, with Ponting making a quick 51, before a draw was declared.

Attendance figures

• Day 1: 35,389
• Day 2: 34,045
• Day 3: 34,615
• Day 4: 21,677
• Day 5: 7,088

Second Test

For the second Test, Australia made two changes; dropping Mitchell Johnson

Mitchell Johnson (cricketer)

Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...

 and Ben Hilfenhaus

Ben Hilfenhaus

Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. Hilfenhaus plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club. Prior to turning fully professional, he worked as a bricklayer as well as playing cricket...

 and bringing in Doug Bollinger

Doug Bollinger

Douglas Erwin Bollinger is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues and international cricket for Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm fast bowler...

 and Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris (cricketer)

Ryan James Harris is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08...

. England fielded an unchanged side. After electing to bat first, Australia made their worst start to a Test match in 60 years, when they lost the opening three wickets for two runs. Simon Katich

Simon Katich

Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricketer. He is the captain of the New South Wales Blues, and also captained, up until the end of the 2007 season, Derbyshire County Cricket Club...

 was run out before facing a ball, and captain Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

 for a first-ball duck

Duck (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...

. Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...

 made 93 before being dismissed by Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

 and Australia were bowled out on day one for 245.

On the second day, England captain Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss

Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...

 was dismissed for a single in the first over of the day's play. At the close of day two, Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

 had made 136 not out; when combined with his score of 235 not out in the second innings of the first Test, Cook broke the England record for runs scored and minutes at the crease without being dismissed. This consisted of 371 runs in 1,022 minutes of play.

Early on the third morning, Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...

 reached his first century since March 2009 before Cook was out for 148. Supported first by Paul Collingwood

Paul Collingwood

Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...

 (42) and then Ian Bell (68 not out), Pietersen reached the second double-century of his career. Pietersen was finally out for a Test-best 227 before England declared on 620/5. This was the first time that the England team had passed the 500 run mark in successive innings in the Ashes and left Australia needing 375 runs to make England bat again.

Australia began batting early on day four and started a fightback before losing the wicket of Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke (cricketer)

Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...

 (80) off the last ball of the day from the bowling of Kevin Pietersen. Although Hussey completed a half-century, England took the final six wickets in the final morning session to win by an innings and 71 runs. Steven Finn

Steven Finn (cricketer)

Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...

 took the key wicket of Hussey before Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

 completed his 10th five-wicket haul in Tests and first against Australia by claiming the last three wickets. The result was the 100th time England had beaten Australia in a Test match. Harris got a king pair (two first-ball ducks

Duck (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...

), becoming only the second Australian ever to do so in Test cricket.

Attendance figures

• Day 1: 38,141 (Highest attendance at the Adelaide Oval
  Adelaide Oval
  The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...
  
   in the 21st century)
• Day 2: 33,797
• Day 3: 32,369
• Day 4: 20,157

Third Test

Following an innings defeat, Australia made four changes, with pace bowlers Johnson and Hilfenhaus returning in place of Bollinger and Doherty, all-rounder Steve Smith

Steve Smith (cricketer born 1989)

Steven Peter Devereux "Steve" Smith is an Australian international cricketer who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues. An all-rounder, Smith bats right-handed and bowls right arm leg spin. Smith has played for the Kent Second XI, New South Wales, the Sutherland Cricket Club and Illawong...

 replacing North, and opener Phillip Hughes replacing the injured Katich. Australia's bowling attack comprised four main pace bowlers and Smith as the premier spinner. England made one change, with Chris Tremlett

Chris Tremlett

Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...

 chosen to replace the injured Broad.

On the first day, Tremlett marked his return to Test cricket with three top-order wickets as Australia were reduced to 69/5. However, the middle-lower order rescued Australia with Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...

, Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson

Mitchell Johnson (cricketer)

Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...

 scoring half-centuries. Australia were finally bowled out for 268 runs.

On the second day, England reached 78/0 before suffering a batting collapse with Johnson taking 6/38. In a spell costing just 7 runs, he accounted for Cook (32), Trott (4), Pietersen (0) and Collingwood (5) to leave England 98/5. Strauss and Bell made half-centuries before Johnson took two further wickets as England were all out for 187.

Starting their second innings with a lead of 81 runs, Australia lost Hughes, Ponting and Clarke cheaply before Hussey and Watson steadied the innings with a 113-run partnership. Watson fell five short of his century, but Hussey recorded his second century of the series before a late flurry of wickets left Australia being bowled out for 309. Hussey was last-man-out for 116 and that wicket completed Tremlett's maiden Test five-wicket haul.

Needing 391 runs for victory, England quickly collapsed to 81/5. Johnson picked up two more wickets, and Ben Hilfenhaus

Ben Hilfenhaus

Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. Hilfenhaus plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club. Prior to turning fully professional, he worked as a bricklayer as well as playing cricket...

 collected his first since the opening over of the series as the openers and Pietersen fell cheaply. Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

 damaged a finger parrying Trott to wicket-keeper Haddin in the penultimate over, before Paul Collingwood

Paul Collingwood

Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...

 was caught behind off Harris from the last ball of the day. On day four, the remaining England batsmen were quickly bowled out within ten overs. The final five wickets fell for just 42 runs with Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris (cricketer)

Ryan James Harris is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08...

 taking 47/6. England were all out for 123 and lost the game by 267 runs. For his combined 63 runs and 9/82, Johnson won the Man of the Match award.

Attendance figures

• Day 1: 27,473 (Highest attendance at the WACA Ground
  WACA Ground
  The WACA is a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia. WACA are the initials of its owners and operators, the Western Australian Cricket Association....
  
   in the 21st century).
• Day 2: 20,661
• Day 3: 20,073
• Day 4: 16,616

Fourth Test

Despite being the series' leading wicket-taker, Steven Finn

Steven Finn (cricketer)

Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...

 was rested by England for the much-anticipated Boxing Day Test

Boxing Day Test

The Boxing Day Test match is a cricket Test match hosted in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia involving the Australian cricket team and an opposing national team which is touring Australia that summer. It begins annually on Boxing Day and is played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground...

 and replaced by Tim Bresnan

Tim Bresnan

Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...

. James Anderson

James Anderson (cricketer)

James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...

 was cleared to play after a slight side strain. Australia was unchanged, with Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

 also cleared to play despite a fractured little finger on his left hand.

Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss

Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...

 won the toss and elected to bowl. Shane Watson

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....

 was dropped twice without scoring off Anderson before Chris Tremlett

Chris Tremlett

Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...

 claimed his wicket. Tremlett later had Ponting caught behind before Anderson got the vital wicket of Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...

, who had achieved at least fifty in every innings of the series, in the last over before lunch. None of the Australian batsmen offered much resistance as they were bowled out for 98 before tea: their lowest Ashes total at the MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

. All ten dismissals were catches

Caught

Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket. Being caught out is the most common method of dismissal at higher levels of competition...

 behind the stumps, with Matt Prior becoming the fourth English wicket-keeper to take six catches in an innings; of the remaining catches, two were taken at slip and two at gully. Anderson and Tremlett took four wickets each while Bresnan took the remaining two.

In reply, England's openers advanced to 157/0 at the end of the first day's play before both fell early the following morning. Australia reviewed a caught-behind appeal for Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Pietersen

Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...

 when on 49, which upheld Aleem Dar's

Aleem Dar

Aleem Sarwar Dar is a retired Pakistani first-class cricketer and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel. He won three consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards 2009, 2010 and 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar and Simon Taufel are the only umpires to have received the...

 not out verdict; however Ponting continued to debate the decision with both umpires and was fined 40% of his match fee. Pietersen was out soon after for 51 and was followed by Collingwood (8) and Bell (1). Matt Prior was then given out caught behind early in his innings, however Dar called for the third umpire for a suspected no ball. This was confirmed and Prior continued to support Trott, eventually making 85 while Trott achieved his fifth Test century and eventually finished not out on 168 as England were bowled out for 513. During the innings, Peter Siddle

Peter Siddle

Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...

 took a six-wicket haul, while bowler Ryan Harris

Ryan Harris (cricketer)

Ryan James Harris is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08...

 fractured his ankle in his run-up, placing his future in doubt.

By the time they began their second innings, Australia were in a worse situation than at Adelaide: needing to make 415 runs just to make England bat again, a man down (Ryan Harris being unable to bat after his ankle injury), and with more than half the match left to play. Australia got off to a quick start before Phillip Hughes was run out off Graeme Swann

Graeme Swann

Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...

's bowling. Tim Bresnan then took three wickets - Shane Watson lbw

Leg before wicket

In the sport of cricket, leg before wicket is one of the ways in which a batsman can be dismissed. An umpire will rule a batsman out LBW under a series of circumstances which primarily include the ball striking the batsman's body when it would otherwise have continued on to hit the batsman's...

, captain Ricky Ponting bowled

Bowled

Bowled is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket. This method of dismissal is covered by Law 30 of the Laws of cricket.A batsman is out bowled if his wicket is put down by a ball delivered by the bowler...

 and Michael Hussey caught

Caught

Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket. Being caught out is the most common method of dismissal at higher levels of competition...

 for a duck

Duck (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a duck refers to a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.-Origin of the term:The term is a shortening of the term "duck's egg", the latter being used long before Test cricket began...

 - to leave Australia 104-4. Australia finished day 3 on 169/6, 246 runs behind. An 86-run partnership on the fourth morning between Haddin and Siddle delayed the inevitable, but after Siddle was caught in the deep off Swann, Bresnan dismissed Ben Hilfenhaus

Ben Hilfenhaus

Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. Hilfenhaus plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club. Prior to turning fully professional, he worked as a bricklayer as well as playing cricket...

 for a pair to seal the match. Australia were bowled out for 258 and England retained the Ashes, winning by an innings and 157 runs.

The losses at Adelaide and Melbourne mean that this is the first time that Australia have lost two Tests in a home series by an innings.

Attendance figures

• Day 1 - 84,345
• Day 2 - 67,149
• Day 3 - 68,773
• Day 4 - 19,889

Fifth Test

Prior to the fifth Test match, Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting , nicknamed Punter, is an Australian cricketer, a former captain of the Australian cricket team between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very...

 was declared unfit to play due to an injury to his left little finger. Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke (cricketer)

Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...

 became Australia's 43rd Test captain, while Brad Haddin assumed vice-captain responsibilities. Usman Khawaja

Usman Khawaja

Usman Khawaja is an Australian cricketer. He was awarded player of the Australian Under 19 Championship in 2005 and also played for Australia in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka as an opening batsman. His club side is Randwick-Petersham....

 made his Test debut in place for Ponting and became the first Pakistani Australian to play for Australia. Spinner Michael Beer

Michael Beer

Michael Anthony Beer is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Western Warriors. He is a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He made his Test debut in the final match of the 2010–11 Ashes series.-Early life:...

 also made his Test debut, and became the 10th spinner to feature in the Australian side since Shane Warne

Shane Warne

Shane Keith Warne is a former Australian international cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the history of the game. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet...

's retirement in 2007.

Clarke won the toss and elected to bat in overcast conditions. Shane Watson

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....

, Phillip Hughes, debutant Khawaja and Mike Hussey all passed 30, however none of the top order reached a half-century. After Hussey was dismissed by part-time bowler Paul Collingwood

Paul Collingwood

Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...

, playing in his final Test having announced his retirement from Test cricket on the fourth morning, Smith and Siddle soon followed to leave Australia at 189/8. However, 53 from Mitchell Johnson

Mitchell Johnson (cricketer)

Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...

 and 34 from Ben Hilfenhaus

Ben Hilfenhaus

Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket. Hilfenhaus plays club cricket for Tasmania University Cricket Club. Prior to turning fully professional, he worked as a bricklayer as well as playing cricket...

 allowed Australia finish on 280 all out.

England's openers batted positively, with Andrew Strauss

Andrew Strauss

Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...

 making a 58-ball 60 before being bowled by Hilfenhaus. His fellow opener, Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

, continued his excellent form, making his third century and passing 700 runs for the series. After Cook departed for 189, Ian Bell made his first century in Ashes cricket in his 18th Test match against Australia. There was minor controversy when Bell successfully overturned a caught-behind dismissal whilst on 67 - it was overturned because Hotspot showed no edge on the bat, but Snickometer (used by the broadcaster, but not used in the referral process) detected an edge. After England passed 500 for the fourth time in the series, wicketkeeper Matt Prior reached his fourth Test hundred, his first against Australia, from just 109 balls - the fastest English Ashes century since Ian Botham

Ian Botham

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator. He was a genuine all-rounder with 14 centuries and 383 wickets in Test cricket, and remains well-known by his nickname "Beefy"...

 in 1981 at Old Trafford

Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

. His century meant that six out of England's top seven had made centuries during the series. England were bowled out for 644, their highest total ever in an Ashes Test in Australia.

Needing 364 to make England bat again, several Australian batsmen again made starts before getting out. Shane Watson

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....

 made a brisk 38 before he was run out, the third run-out of the series that he was involved in, Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke (cricketer)

Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...

 scored 41 in his second innings as captain, and Brad Haddin made 30. In an 8th-wicket partnership worth 80 runs, Steve Smith

Steve Smith (cricketer born 1989)

Steven Peter Devereux "Steve" Smith is an Australian international cricketer who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues. An all-rounder, Smith bats right-handed and bowls right arm leg spin. Smith has played for the Kent Second XI, New South Wales, the Sutherland Cricket Club and Illawong...

 made an unbeaten half-century and Peter Siddle

Peter Siddle

Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...

 a Test-best 43; however, after Siddle was removed, Hilfenhaus soon departed for just 7 before Chris Tremlett

Chris Tremlett

Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...

 took the final wicket; Michael Beer

Michael Beer

Michael Anthony Beer is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Western Warriors. He is a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He made his Test debut in the final match of the 2010–11 Ashes series.-Early life:...

 bowled, playing on, for 2. Australia's total was 281 and England won by an innings and 83 runs. This was the third time they had won by an innings in the series – the first time a touring side has won three Tests by an innings during a single series.

Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...

 was named Man of the Series after scoring 766 runs for England, and also Man of the Match for his 189 runs in the first innings.

Attendance figures

• Day 1: 43,561
• Day 2: 40,247
• Day 3: 40,300
• Day 4: 35,622
• Day 5: 19,274

Individual

Statistic	England		Australia
Most runs	Alastair Cook Alastair Cook Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...	766	Michael Hussey Michael Hussey Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...	570
Highest innings	Alastair Cook	235* Not out In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...	Michael Hussey	195
Highest batting average	Alastair Cook	127.66	Michael Hussey	63.33
Most centuries	Alastair Cook	3	Michael Hussey	2
Most fifties	Ian Bell Andrew Strauss Andrew Strauss Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...	3	Shane Watson Shane Watson Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....	4
Most fours	Alastair Cook	81	Michael Hussey	67
Most sixes	Matt Prior	2	Peter Siddle Peter Siddle Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:... Brad Haddin	5
Most wickets	James Anderson James Anderson (cricketer) James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...	24	Mitchell Johnson Mitchell Johnson (cricketer) Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...	15
Most five-wicket hauls	Steven Finn Steven Finn (cricketer) Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949... Graeme Swann Graeme Swann Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip... Chris Tremlett Chris Tremlett Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...	1	Peter Siddle	2
Best innings figures	Steven Finn	33.4-1-125-6	Mitchell Johnson	17.3-5-38-6
Best bowling average (specialist bowlers only)	Tim Bresnan Tim Bresnan Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...	19.54	Ryan Harris Ryan Harris (cricketer) Ryan James Harris is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08...	25.54
Most catches (wicket-keepers excluded)	Paul Collingwood Paul Collingwood Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...	9	Michael Hussey	5
Most dismissals (wicket-keepers only)	Matt Prior	23 (23c/0st)	Brad Haddin	9 (8c/1st)

Team

Statistic	England	Australia
Highest team innings	644	481
Lowest team innings	123	98

Other

England

• In the 2nd innings of the 1st Test, Alastair Cook
  Alastair Cook
  Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...
  
   achieved his maiden Test double-century and his highest Test score of 235 (not out). This was also the highest Test Innings score for a single batsman at The Gabba.
• In the 1st innings of the 2nd Test, Ian Bell reached a career total of 4,000 runs when he scored 68 (not out).
• In the 1st innings of the 2nd Test, Kevin Pietersen
  Kevin Pietersen
  Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...
  
   hit 227, his highest Test score.
• In the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test, James Anderson
  James Anderson (cricketer)
  James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...
  
   reached a career total of 200 wickets when he took Peter Siddle
  Peter Siddle
  Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
  
  's.
• In the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test, Chris Tremlett
  Chris Tremlett
  Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...
  
   achieved his first 5-wicket haul.
• In the 1st innings of the 4th Test, Andrew Strauss
  Andrew Strauss
  Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...
  
   reached a career total of 6,000 runs.
• In the 1st innings of the 4th Test, Matt Prior reached a career total of 2,000 runs.
• In the 1st innings of the 5th Test, Alastair Cook
  Alastair Cook
  Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English international cricket player. He is a left-handed opening batsman who plays county cricket for Essex and International cricket for England, where he is their ODI captain. Cook played for Essex's Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003...
  
   reached a career total of 5,000 runs; he was the second-youngest player to reach this landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Tendulkar
  Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...
  
  . He also made his third century of the series and stands as the series' highest run-scorer.
• In the 1st innings of the 5th Test, England scored their highest team total ever in Australia.
• In the 1st innings of the 5th Test, England's 6th, 7th and 8th wicket partnerships all made 100, the first time this has ever happened in Test cricket.
• England amassed a total of nine centuries off six different batsmen. This is a record for England in the Ashes.
• England surpassed 500 runs four times. This is the first time they had done so in any series.
• England became the first touring team to win three matches by an innings in a single Test series.
• England won the Ashes in Australia for the first time in 24 years

Australia

• In the 1st innings of the 1st Test, Peter Siddle
  Peter Siddle
  Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
  
   took a hat-trick. This was the first Test hat-trick by an Australian since Glenn McGrath
  Glenn McGrath
  Glenn Donald McGrath AM , nicknamed "Pigeon", is a former Australian cricket player. He is one of the most highly regarded fast-medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to the early 21st century...
  
   in 2000, and the first in an Ashes series since Darren Gough
  Darren Gough
  Darren Gough is a retired English cricketer and former captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. The spearhead of England's bowling attack through much of the 1990s, he is England's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him...
  
   in 1999. Overall, it was the 38th Test hat-trick, the 11th by an Australian, and the 9th by a Victorian. The hat-trick was also taken on his 26th birthday, 25 November 2010.
• In the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test, Ryan Harris
  Ryan Harris (cricketer)
  Ryan James Harris is an Australian cricketer, currently signed up to play domestic cricket for Yorkshire in 2010. A right-arm fast bowler, he played with the Southern Redbacks from 2001–02 to 2007–08...
  
   achieved his first 5-wicket haul.
• Australia's first-innings total of 98 in the 4th Test was its lowest first-innings ever in a Melbourne Test, and its lowest completed first innings score in a home Ashes Test since 1888.
• In the 2nd innings of the 4th Test, Peter Siddle
  Peter Siddle
  Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
  
   hit 40, his highest Test score.
• In the 2nd innings of the 5th Test, Peter Siddle
  Peter Siddle
  Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...
  
   again surpassed his highest Test score when he scored 43.
• Captain Ricky Ponting
  Ponting
  Ponting could refer to:*Charles Ponting , English architect*Charles Ponting, actor*Chris Ponting, British biologist*Clive Ponting , UK civil servant and writer*Herbert Ponting , photographer...
  
   averaged 16.14 runs across the series, the lowest average by an Australian captain in an Ashes series in Australia since Brian Booth
  Brian Booth
  Brian Charles Booth is a former Australian cricketer who played in 29 Tests from 1961 to 1966. He captained Australia for two Tests during the 1965–66 Ashes series while regular captain Bob Simpson was absent due to illness and injury. Booth was a graceful right-handed middle order batsman...
  
   in 1965–66
  1965–66 Ashes series
  Australia had substantially the better of it, Walters adding his name to the fairly select list of those who have made a hundred in their first Test...After Walters's innings I wrote that with one necessary qualification I thought he would be come to be rated as the best bat produced by Australia...
  
  .

Tour match

Squads

Following the defeat in the 2010–11 Ashes series

2010–11 Ashes series

The 2010–11 Ashes series was played in Australia as part of the England cricket team's tour of Australia during the 2010–11 cricket season. Five Tests were played from 25 November 2010 to 7 January 2011...

, Michael Clarke

Michael Clarke (cricketer)

Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...

 announced his retirement from Twenty20, to focus on Test and 50-over cricket. Cameron White

Cameron White

Cameron Leon White is an Australian cricketer and current Australian Twenty20 captain. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the 2000–01 season for the Victorian Bushrangers as a bowling all-rounder...

 will take over as captain, with Tim Paine

Tim Paine

Timothy David Paine is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and for the University of Tasmania Cricket Club in club cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, as well as a right arm bowler at junior level...

 as vice-captain.

Cameron White Cameron White Cameron Leon White is an Australian cricketer and current Australian Twenty20 captain. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the 2000–01 season for the Victorian Bushrangers as a bowling all-rounder...  (c Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... )	Paul Collingwood Paul Collingwood Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...  (c Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... )
Tim Paine Tim Paine Timothy David Paine is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and for the University of Tasmania Cricket Club in club cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, as well as a right arm bowler at junior level...  (wk Wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike...  and vc)	Ian Bell
Aaron Finch Aaron Finch Aaron James Finch is an Australian cricketer who plays for Victoria. A right-handed batsman, he played in the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka. Finch is a middle order batsman, but has been used up the order when playing for club side Geelong. Finch got his opportunity in the State...	Tim Bresnan Tim Bresnan Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...
David Hussey David Hussey David John Hussey is an Australian cricketer. Hussey is a right-handed batsman and can also bowl right-arm offbreaks. He is the younger brother of Australian Test cricketer Michael Hussey.-Australian domestic career:...	Steve Davies (wk Wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike... )
Mitchell Johnson Mitchell Johnson (cricketer) Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...	Steve Finn Steven Finn (cricketer) Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...
Brett Lee Brett Lee Brett Lee is an Australian cricketer.After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket...	Michael Lumb
Stephen O'Keefe Stephen O'Keefe Stephen Norman John O'Keefe is an Australian cricketer and current New South Wales player. O'Keefe made his First-Class debut for New South Wales against Tasmania in November 2005. O'Keefe took 2 wickets and score 10 runs on debut...	Eoin Morgan Eoin Morgan Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan is an Irish cricketer who plays for the England national cricket team. A left-handed batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has been selected for England's Test, ODI and Twenty20 squads. He originally represented his native Ireland at international level...
James Pattinson James Pattinson James Lee Pattinson is an Australian cricketer who currently plays for Victoria.- Playing career :Pattinson played for Dandenong Cricket Club in Victorian Premier Cricket and also played for Australia in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia.On Wednesday 23 December 2009, James broke the record...	Kevin Pietersen Kevin Pietersen Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...
Steve Smith Steve Smith (cricketer born 1989) Steven Peter Devereux "Steve" Smith is an Australian international cricketer who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues. An all-rounder, Smith bats right-handed and bowls right arm leg spin. Smith has played for the Kent Second XI, New South Wales, the Sutherland Cricket Club and Illawong...	Ajmal Shahzad Ajmal Shahzad Ajmal Shahzad is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his international debut in a Twenty20 International for England in February 2010...
Shaun Tait Shaun Tait Shaun William Tait is a professional Australian cricketer, who currently plays only in the Twenty20 format. Tait plays domestic cricket for South Australia and is also a representative for Australia at Twenty20 International level; he has also represented his country in One Day Internationals and...	Graeme Swann Graeme Swann Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...
David Warner David Warner (cricketer) David Andrew Warner is an Australian cricketer. A quick-scoring left-handed opening batsman, Warner is the first Australian cricketer in 132 years to be selected for a national team in any format without experience in first-class cricket...	James Tredwell James Tredwell James Cullum Tredwell is an English cricketer. A left-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler, he plays his domestic cricket for Kent County Cricket Club...
Shane Watson Shane Watson Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....	Chris Tremlett Chris Tremlett Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...
	Jonathan Trott Jonathan Trott Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...
	Chris Woakes Chris Woakes Christopher Roger Woakes is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who found success at Warwickshire to the extent that he topped Warwickshire's 2008 county bowling averages, and was selected for the England Lions squad as well as the preliminary...
	Luke Wright
	Michael Yardy Michael Yardy Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricketer. He captains Sussex County Cricket Club and is a left-handed batsman whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball...

1st T20I

Prior to the start of the match, a minute's silence was held for victims of the recent flooding

2010–2011 Queensland floods

A series of floods hit Australia, beginning in December 2010, primarily in the state of Queensland including its capital city, Brisbane. The floods forced the evacuation of thousands of people from towns and cities. At least seventy towns and over 200,000 people were affected. Damage initially was...

 in Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

. Both teams donated part of their match fees to help the victims and £18,000 (A$28,450) was collected from people in the ground. England's victory was their eighth consecutive win, setting a world record for most consecutive wins in Twenty20 Internationals.

2nd T20I

Squads

Michael Clarke Michael Clarke (cricketer) Michael John Clarke is an Australian cricketer. He was appointed captain of the Test and ODI teams on 30 March 2011. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler...  (c Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... )	Andrew Strauss Andrew Strauss Andrew John Strauss, OBE is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is the captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots...  (c Captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player... )
Cameron White Cameron White Cameron Leon White is an Australian cricketer and current Australian Twenty20 captain. A powerful middle order batsman and right-arm leg-spin bowler, White made his first-class cricket debut as a teenager in the 2000–01 season for the Victorian Bushrangers as a bowling all-rounder...  (vc)	James Anderson James Anderson (cricketer) James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day...
Doug Bollinger Doug Bollinger Douglas Erwin Bollinger is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues and international cricket for Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm fast bowler...	Ian Bell
Xavier Doherty Xavier Doherty Xavier John Doherty is an Australian cricketer who plays Australian domestic cricket with the Tasmanian Tigers and for the Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left arm orthodox bowler...	Tim Bresnan Tim Bresnan Timothy 'Tim' Thomas Bresnan is an English cricketer. He is a fast-medium bowler, as well as being respected for his ability with the bat for Yorkshire. He normally fields in the deep. He won the NBC Denis Compton Award in 2002 and 2003. In June 2006 he was called up to the England One Day...
Brad Haddin (wk Wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike... )	Paul Collingwood Paul Collingwood Paul David Collingwood MBE is an English cricketer. He has been a regular member of the England Test side, was captain of the One Day International team 2007–2008. He is also vice-captain of his county, Durham County Cricket Club. Collingwood is a batting all-rounder, whose batting...
Nathan Hauritz Nathan Hauritz Nathan Michael Hauritz is an Australian cricketer who has represented Australia in Tests, One-dayers and Twenty20 Internationals. He is mainly noted for his off spin bowling....	Steve Davies (wk Wicket-keeper The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being guarded by the batsman currently on strike... )
David Hussey David Hussey David John Hussey is an Australian cricketer. Hussey is a right-handed batsman and can also bowl right-arm offbreaks. He is the younger brother of Australian Test cricketer Michael Hussey.-Australian domestic career:...	Steve Finn Steven Finn (cricketer) Steven Thomas Finn is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler.Educated at Parmiter's School in Garston, at the age of 16 Finn became Middlesex County Cricket Club's youngest debutant in first-class cricket, beating the record set by Fred Titmus in 1949...
Michael Hussey Michael Hussey Michael Edward Killeen Hussey is an Australian cricketer, a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nickname Mr Cricket. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the one-day international and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective...	Eoin Morgan Eoin Morgan Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan is an Irish cricketer who plays for the England national cricket team. A left-handed batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has been selected for England's Test, ODI and Twenty20 squads. He originally represented his native Ireland at international level...
Mitchell Johnson Mitchell Johnson (cricketer) Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...	Kevin Pietersen Kevin Pietersen Kevin Peter Pietersen, MBE is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who plays for England and Surrey...
Brett Lee Brett Lee Brett Lee is an Australian cricketer.After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket...	Ajmal Shahzad Ajmal Shahzad Ajmal Shahzad is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. A right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler, he made his international debut in a Twenty20 International for England in February 2010...
Peter Siddle Peter Siddle Peter Matthew Siddle is an Australian Test cricketer. He is a specialist right-arm fast-medium bowler who plays for Victoria and the Australia national cricket team.-Early life and career:...	Graeme Swann Graeme Swann Graeme Peter Swann is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, and also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip...
Steve Smith Steve Smith (cricketer born 1989) Steven Peter Devereux "Steve" Smith is an Australian international cricketer who currently plays for the New South Wales Blues. An all-rounder, Smith bats right-handed and bowls right arm leg spin. Smith has played for the Kent Second XI, New South Wales, the Sutherland Cricket Club and Illawong...	James Tredwell James Tredwell James Cullum Tredwell is an English cricketer. A left-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler, he plays his domestic cricket for Kent County Cricket Club...
Shaun Tait Shaun Tait Shaun William Tait is a professional Australian cricketer, who currently plays only in the Twenty20 format. Tait plays domestic cricket for South Australia and is also a representative for Australia at Twenty20 International level; he has also represented his country in One Day Internationals and...	Chris Tremlett Chris Tremlett Christopher Timothy "Chris" Tremlett is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey County Cricket Club. He is 6 ft 8 in tall and is a fast bowler able to extract bounce on most surfaces. He is a competent number 8 or 9 batsman, with seven first-class fifties to his name...
Shane Watson Shane Watson Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....	Jonathan Trott Jonathan Trott Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott is a South African-born England Test cricketer. Domestically, he plays for Warwickshire and he has also played in South Africa and New Zealand...
	Chris Woakes Chris Woakes Christopher Roger Woakes is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast pace bowler who found success at Warwickshire to the extent that he topped Warwickshire's 2008 county bowling averages, and was selected for the England Lions squad as well as the preliminary...
	Luke Wright
	Michael Yardy Michael Yardy Michael Howard Yardy is an English cricketer. He captains Sussex County Cricket Club and is a left-handed batsman whose unusual technique has attracted a great deal of attention due to a pronounced shuffle from leg to off immediately prior to the bowler releasing the ball...

1st ODI

Shane Watson

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler. He mainly bats as an opener in international cricket, although he does not do so domestically....

's score of 161 not out

Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

 was the fifth-highest ODI score by an Australian. The Australian total was the highest successful run chase in ODI matches played at the MCG

Melbourne Cricket Ground

The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

.

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

4th ODI

5th ODI

6th ODI

England's score of 333 was their highest score against Australia, and the highest ODI total without a six. Australia's score of 334 was their highest ODI score when batting second. This was also the highest successful run chase at the SCG

Sydney Cricket Ground

The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Australian football, Test cricket, One Day International cricket, some rugby league and rugby union matches and is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian...

 by Australia.

7th ODI

External links

• Series site at Cricinfo.com
• English cricket team in Australia in 2010–11 at BBC Sport