Crazy stat that highlights Australia's only failure

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Australia has retained the Ashes urn successful the astir stunning fashion, clinching a 3-0 bid pb implicit England with 2 matches inactive to play.

The Aussies won by an innings and 14 runs astatine the MCG wrong 2 and a fractional days.

Here are Mark Taylor's subordinate ratings for the match.

FULL RECAP: Re-live the 3rd Ashes Test successful our play-by-play blog here

Boland snags the England skipper

Marcus Harris: Finally the people that volition person selectors to springiness him different tally for the remaining 2 Ashes Tests this summer. His 76 was the apical people of the match, and helium had to combat hard for each run. Unfortunately his dismissal - nicking a James Anderson transportation to archetypal gaffe - has go each excessively acquainted for Harris. He's inactive lone passed 50 connected 3 occasions successful Test cricket. He volition play successful Sydney adjacent week but his spot is acold from cemented long-term. 8

David Warner: Copped a brute of a transportation from James Anderson that caught a heavy extracurricular borderline and was taken by a bully gully drawback by Zak Crawley. He made 38 successful a 57-run opening concern with Harris. Warner besides took 2 crisp catches astatine slip. 6.5

Marnus Labuschagne: The archetypal clip helium has been retired for little than 47 successful the archetypal innings of his past 15 Test matches. An unthinkable streak of scores came to an extremity with a disappointing 1, edging Mark Wood to archetypal slip. He's the recently minted No.1 Test batter successful the satellite but adjacent the champion person their dips. One of lone 2 Aussie batters not to scope treble figures. 1

Steve Smith: Another batter to autumn unfortunate to the brilliance of James Anderson, with Smith wrong edging a transportation onto his stumps for lone 16. His wicket near Australia successful a susceptible presumption astatine 4-110. A nonaccomplishment by his lofty standards. 3

Travis Head: Put connected a 61-run concern with Harris, of which Head scored 27 disconnected 48 deliveries. It was different commencement for the left-hander and different nonaccomplishment to person that into a bigger score. It's an contented that has go a taxable of his Test career. 5

Cameron Green: Bowled choky successful the archetypal innings with figures of 1-7 disconnected 8 overs, troubling the England batters constantly. He got the cardinal wicket of Ben Stokes successful the archetypal innings, past finished the lucifer by bowling James Anderson. The all-rounder is inactive uncovering his feet with the bat and lone managed 17 disconnected 63 deliveries earlier being bowled by Jack Leach. His bowling is precise good, batting needs immoderate work. 6.5

Boland bags another

Alex Carey: Took 4 catches for the lucifer and contributed a useful 19 runs. He made 1 evident error, and unluckily it was the aforesaid mistake helium had successful Adelaide past week - hesitating and allowing a drawback to sail betwixt helium and David Warner astatine archetypal gaffe connected Day 2. Still, he's made a fantastic modulation into the Test squad and has different been faultless. 6

Pat Cummins: It's astir unbelievable helium didn't get a azygous wicket successful the 2nd innings. His bowling - alongside Mitchell Starc - successful the last hr of play connected Day 2 was thing abbreviated of phenomenal. The England batters hardly knew what to bash with it. Cummins took 3 wickets and made 21 runs for the lucifer but his power stretched acold beyond the stat sheet. 9

Mitchell Starc: Five wickets for the lucifer but - similar Cummins - his power connected this lucifer tin hardly beryllium explained by those statistics. Starc was adjacent to unplayable astatine the extremity of Day 2. He narrowly missed a Test hat-trick, claiming 2 successful 2 balls and past missing Joe Root's extracurricular borderline by a mates of centimetres. His unbeaten 24 with the bat was besides important successful the result. 9

Nathan Lyon: Bagged 3 wickets successful the archetypal innings and past wasn't required to vessel successful the second. England tried to spell aft the spinner and it resulted successful Jos Buttler throwing his wicket distant connected Day 1. Lyon was past sent successful arsenic nightwatchman and made it done to stumps unbeaten. 7

Scott Boland: Not definite you could imagination up a amended Test debut than this one. Seven wickets for the lucifer and 6-7 disconnected 4 overs successful the 2nd innings to decorativeness it off. Plus winning the Johnny Mullagh Medal connected apical of that, a superb infinitesimal for a arrogant Aboriginal cricketer. 9.5

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