Ashes: Australia pacers destroy England to win series 4-0

Pat Cummins with The Ashes urn yesterday. Pic/Getty Images

Australia's fast bowlers ran through the English batting line-up to claim a comprehensive 146-run win in the fifth and final Ashes Test at Hobart on Sunday, sealing a one-sided series 4-0.

After a bright 68-run opening stand chasing 271 for victory, England collapsed once again to hand the Test to the rampant Australian outfit, losing 10 wickets for 56 runs in 137 balls. "To be at the end of a five-Test series with so many positives - winning 4-0 - it's huge so I'm really pumped," Australian captain Pat Cummins said.

England had no answers once more in Hobart to the pace barrage of Cummins, Cameron Green, Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc, who shared the wickets between them and took nine English wickets in the night session. So dominant were the fast bowlers, off-spinner Nathan Lyon did not bowl a ball in the entire match.

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