Summary

  • England win at The Oval by 135 runs - series drawn 2-2

  • First drawn Ashes series for 47 years

  • Australia bowled out for 262 chasing 399 to win

  • Wade holds up England with 117; four wickets each for Broad & Leach

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton and Matthew Henry

  1. wicket

    WICKET

    Archer c Paine b Cummins 3 (Eng 317-9)

    Tim Paine has got a review correct! Truly the end of days.

    Did he go on that umpiring course overnight?

    In all seriousness, a good call by the Aussie captain, that appeared to just tickle Jofra Archer's glove as he tried to shovel a leg-side delivery round the corner.

    Archer trudges off, convinced he missed it but UltraEdge showed a spike and umpire Marais Erasmus has to overturn his decision.

  2. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Archer isn't pleased - he's staring at the umpire as if to say he must be joking. He looks like he's been burgled.

  3. Oooh. There is a spike...

  4. Australia review

    Jofra Archer chases one down the leg side, Tim Paine takes it and goes up for caught behind.

    He's reviewing it. Could he finally have got one right?

  5. Eng 317-8

    Archer 3, Leach 9

    Jack Leach is a national cricketing hero. And he fancies some quick runs this morning.

    Leach misses with a hack across the line as he tries to plant Nathan Lyon into the stands.

  6. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    I love Sunday crowds. They're just a bit different - they really cheered that four to the boundary as though Jack Leach was a national cricketing hero.

    England's Jack Leach plays a shot as Australia's captain Tim Paine keeps wicket during play on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at The OvalAFP

  7. Eng 317-8

    Lead by 386

    Nathan Lyon strays short and Jack Leach cuts him away through the covers for four!

    A first wahey of the day for the crowd.

  8. Eng 313-8

    Nathan Lyon first up to Jack Leach.

    Oooh and he gets it to bite past the outside edge.

    The second ball turns even further off the pitch!

    Leach will actually quite enjoy seeing that.

  9. Amy Lofthouse
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    If you’re not in your seat for the start of play and you’ve missed the rendition of Jerusalem that rings across the ground before every day’s play, then there’s a fella behind the OCS doing a one man reinterpretation of it. It’s certainly something.

  10. Another glorious day at The Oval. Sun, heat, a belter.

    Jofra Archer and Jack Leach stride to the crease as Jerusalem blares out.

    Players take the field for play on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test match between England and Australia at The OvalAFP

  11. A mate of mine referred to you as Steve Shmelt the other day, Steph.

    So it could be worse.

  12. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at The Oval

    I booked a table in a curry house near to The Oval for some of the TMS team last night. Enter restaurant. "Hi. Table for six under the name of Stephan." Blank looks. "No, sir. Are you sure." Panic on my part. This is not the first time the TMS Curry Club has threatened to fall apart on my watch. "Can you check again, please?" "Ah, we were expecting Steven." Happens all the time. And Stephanie.

  13. Haha, excellent text. Joe Denly out here, ending careers...

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    Lots of quite aggressive sledging by the Aussies yesterday. I hope England don't resort to the same tactics with Paine and Wade on this, their last appearances in Baggy Green.

    Jacko, York

  15. Jim is right. Australia are not suddenly the nice guys of Test cricket. To be honest, it would be disturbing if they were.

  16. Jim Maxwell
    BBC Test Match Special

    I don't think Australia have changed their spots completely - especially David Warner and Matthew Wade. Steve Waugh was the best. He used to really get stuck into Carl Hooper. Wade is like a jack russell. He probably annoys his team-mates as much as the opposition. Australia usually have the extra cattle dog in their team, snapping at the heels.

  17. Alec Stewart
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The only player who ever got under my skin was Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga, because of the way he was. I could ignore everyone else.

  18. Talking of coaches, this could be the final day of Trevor Bayliss' time in charge of England, with the Australian stepping down at the end of the series.

    I've seen some criticism of his reign and the Test side is a disappointment, but a lot of the problems with it are not of Bayliss' making.

    And he achieved England's primary aim for his time in charge in winning the World Cup, for which he deserves huge credit.

    I think he was a very shrewd appointment after the more dominant figures of Andy Flower and Peter Moores and was always keen to let the players take the plaudits when England were doing well.

    Who would you have next? I reckon England will go for former South Africa, Australia and Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur.

  19. BBC Test Match Special

    England captain Joe Root, speaking about the on-field sledging yesterday: "It felt like Test cricket, nothing more. It was competitive and what you expect it to be. There were a few discussions on the field. It probably looked more entertaining on the cameras than what was said. It's all part and parcel of Test match cricket and nobody stepped over the line."

  20. I know it's still quite early on a Sunday, John, but that is one of the worst ideas of all time.

    He would probably have himself batting at four by the second Test of his reign and then quit in a huff by the fourth.

    Actually, sounds quite fun.