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And with that, it's time to wrap this up.

We hope you've enjoyed our coverage of this Ashes series across BBC Sport, even if you didn't so much enjoy the result. But there's plenty more analysis to still get your teeth stuck into, so check out the below:

• Report: Australia seal 4-0 Ashes win
• Ashes tour not a disaster - Anderson
• Ashes win on Smith's 'bucket list'
• TMS podcast: 'A close series? Rubbish!'
• Pint-sized Ashes: Root return can't stop defeat

Thanks for following, until next time...

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A little more from Steve Smith, on whether Australia are now favourites to win in 2019:"I have no idea. It’s a tough tour and a great place to play – difficult, for any team travelling. England play incredibly well at home.

"I don’t know who would be favourites, you guys can decide that. But I now do look forward to going over there in 2019 and playing in another Ashes series. It’ll be an exciting series, no doubt."

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A slither of hope for England? Australia captain Steve Smith reckons his side will face a "real challenge" next year...

"A lot can change between now and the next Ashes in England in 2019. That’s still a long time away," said Smith.

"This team has been magnificent this series, the cricket we’ve played has been great. I think the more we play together, the more we’re going to get better as a group. We’ve just got to keep getting better and keep improving.

"The next Ashes in England is a long way away but it’s a real challenge for us and a bucket list of mine to win an Ashes series in England."

The hosts weren't shy of rubbing their 4-0 win in once it was sealed earlier today...

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Find it slightly reassuring that Australia's changing room at the SCG looks like my old school gaff...

England cricketers of the future beware, there's another Marsh with his eyes on the urn...

Shaun Marsh's 18-month-old son Austin takes a closer look. He'll no doubt be hearing a few stories from his Ashes-winning dad and Uncle Mitch around the Marsh dinner table.

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Now then, begrudgingly if you're an England fan, we should really give a nod to that Ashes-winning Australia side..

Some sobering post-Ashes analysis from BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.

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Boycott compared Test cricket to chess and believes England, and in particular the batsmen, were at times guilty of possessing a T20 mindset.

He added: "I think a lot of people over the last 10 years, since the IPL (started) in India, are saturated and have got it in their head about scoring rates. Test cricket is not that, it's like 11 people in whites playing chess.

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"You're moving the pieces and trying to get in a position...for checkmate. But it doesn't happen quickly in chess.

"We start equal, we move around in the first day, we don't know who's winning, the second day, we're not sure, and by the third day we've got a pretty good idea of who's on top.

"Then slowly and surely the Australians squeeze us and we lose easily. That's what it's been like."

Geoffrey Boycott has told BBC Radio 5 live that England were "false" for attempting to play down the gulf in class between the teams during the series.

"[The series result] is a fair reflection of the distance between the two teams.

"I think it's a little false by a number of the England players to say at times they were quite close and that there were moments here and there. Quite honestly they were far better than us in nearly every department."

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So how do you sum up that Ashes series? Let's let Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott do that for you...

Just tuning in? We've got loads of great content across the BBC Sport website for you to catch up on:

• Report: Australia seal 4-0 Ashes win
• Quotes: Ashes tour not a disaster - Anderson
• Ashes win on Smith's 'bucket list'

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It may be that this series is more remembered for the moment of trouble involving Ben Stokes outside a Bristol nightclub than anything that happened on the pitch.

Of the action, substitute Peter Handscomb's wonderful diving catch to remove Dawid Malan in Perth, prompting a collapse of six wickets for 35 runs, can be pinpointed with hindsight as when England's hope of retaining the Ashes drained away.

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But the most exhilarating, must-watch, hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck period of play came on the third evening of the third Test in Brisbane, when Australia's fast bowlers showed their teeth for the first time.

Mark Stoneman and Joe Root were given a torrid time, with Root taking a horrific blow to the grille from Mitchell Starc. The sight of Australian pacemen tearing in in front of a baying, raucous and partisan Gabba ground evoked memories of the Mitchell Johnson-inspired carnage of four years ago.

The drama never quite reached those heights again but, for an hour or so, it was what Ashes cricket in Australia is supposed to be.

Talking of the England captain, it seems like a fitting time to see how the batsmen stacked up this series...

If you couldn't bring yourself to watch that final day, then here's a pint-sized recap...

And so, our Ashes recap reaches the series' greatest quotes..

Can anything top Jonny Bairstow and Cameron Bancroft trying to explain the infamous "headbutt" in their own words?

Let us know using #bbccricket or text 81111

CDNesbitt: James Anderson has, yet again, been our best player in an away series by some distance. I shudder to think how poor England will be away from home once he retires.

Mike Forsythe: Just to make things worse, it started to absolutely chuck it down with rain here in Sydney at about 4pm today.

Feel for you, Mike. It's a scorching hot six degrees in Salford this morning...

Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh also said that he would have opted for a nightwatchman had he been in Bairstow's position.

"I was very surprised," he said. "I've played three games this series and had Nathan Lyon padded up as nightwatchman about six times.

"We usually use one in the last 20 minutes. With a new ball, there's probably even more reason to send one out. I would have had the nightwatchman."

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What happened?

Jonny Bairstow lasted just seven balls as Australia followed up their dismissal of Joe Root (83) with the new ball to leave England 233-5 at the close.

And Dawid Malan, at the other end, said he was surprised his team-mate did not opt for the nightwatchman.

"It takes a lot of guts to go against what people normally do," said Malan. "Perhaps he felt he was better suited to face the new ball.

"Some people like it and some people don't. I'll have a nightwatchman every time if there is an opportunity given to me.

"I was surprised. Each to their own. You can't look back. He didn't take one, he backed himself and he got out."