Back in 1938, England scored 903 runs with the loss of only 7 wickets. They declared at the time (meaning they thought they had enough runs) and Australia only scored 201 and 123 in their innings. England won. It still stands as the record test innings score. This all occurred at The Oval in London.

England are down 1/11 with Alistair Cook gone

Scoring 700 will be more than enough for England in this innings! They're currently 3 for 59 (or 59 for 3) needing another 389 runs. Hopefully they can hang on long enough for a couple more commentary stints from 'Skull'.

England is now 5/90

6 for....

Sorry, correction. 7 for 95. That's 4 wickets in 2 overs!

7/95 looks like England not even trying now

Well England has made it to 100 they are 7/106 with Australia needs just 2 hours to win the Ashes Series 5-0

8 fer
Tick.... Tick.... Won't be long now!

England 9/166 1 wicket to go

There it is Australia has won 5-0 England all out for 166

*HAPPY DANCE*
i'm actually tearing up! The virtual drinks are on me.

I'll have one (or several) please, Tizzabelle!
A marvelous turnaround after losing 3-0 in England.

I don't think any of this would've happen under Mickey Arthur coaching Australia

*slaps virtual credit card down on the table*
I'm so happy for Boof Lehmann He's just what they needed. A bit of agro, fun and teamwork rather than science and homework

Apologies to England if we're gloating a little.. it's been a while! All in good fun, truly. Nothing better than an Ashes series! Cya next time

Go ahead and gloat. That must rank as the most pathetic effort from an England team that I've ever (not) seen. I've even avoided the highlights programmes on the basis that there aren't any. Well done Australia.

Cheers rossian. The Pimms and lemonades are on me

Everyone is suddenly down on Cook as captain, but they've only lost one series. If he has a weakness, it's that he's too nice, and not ruthless like captains of yore. The thing is, as well, that there is no-one around as an obvious successor. The Australian thinking has generally been that you pick the best 11 and then choose the captain from that, and England started to adhere to that theory for the past 20 years or so (Gooch, Atherton, Stewart, Hussain, Vaughan etc).
Now, the best players in the team are Cook, Bell, Pietersen, Anderson and Broad. Bell is so NOT a captain, Pietersen was tried and flicked, and still might announce his retirement soon, and Anderson has enough on his plate leading the attack. Which leads us to the current T20 captain, Broad.
He's a world-class player, he can inspire, and he's hated in Australia. On second thought, he's a perfect fit!

Broad is the name I've heard floated. Unless the players make some effort, though, I'm not sure the captain can make much difference.

Thanks for the drink, Tiz. Sorrows are being duly drowned.

Well, that was pants. Congratulations, Australia - I'm sure you deserved it only like Rossian I couldn't bear to watch so I'll take it on trust.

Mine's a gin, ta.

I am sort of a bit cheesed that England capitulated so quickly. I had such high hopes for a close and exciting series.

And I wish I could see what the rest of the country sees in Mitchell Johnson - perhaps if he took the mo off I could take him a bit more seriously!

Yeah, he does look like one of the Village People, eh?

True, but I wouldn't care if he bowled wearing a tutu or borrowed Ronald McDonald's clown suit as long as the results are there

This quiz on the recent 5-0 whitewash may be of interest
http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Spo...-14-355013.html

"Mitchell-Mitchell Man. I wanna be a Mitchell Man!".

And guess what movie Leau and I watched on NYE...."You can't stop the wickets. Nobody can stop the wickets!"