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khawaja's dismissal proves he is still a novice , but there was a gower-like quality to his maiden test inningstwo brand-new baggy greens were handed out an hour before play , amid much back-slapping t one was handed to usman khawaja , the other to michael beer , and i'm pretty certain which one will wear out more quickly.this may be grossly unfair upon beer , the st kilda left-arm spinner who has taken up residence in perth in pursuit of first-class cricket t mickey arthur , the former coach of south africa , now in charge of wa , has sung beer's praises and – glory be – he is in the test team.• interactive guide to all the ashes venues• sign up now for our weekly email the spin• how to stay awake during the tests• follow our daily blog throughout the ashes• the latest news and comment on our ashes siteit is probably wrong to leap to too many conclusions since i have never seen beer bowl in a match , which puts me in the same boat as the majority of australians and one or two in their test team t if he does prove to be a world-beater then there will some red-faced victoria selectors as well as the odd cricket correspondent.by contrast , khawaja's passage to the test team has been on the cards over the past couple of years t during that time his background has been a source of excitement; the excellence of his batting may soon take over t for any debutant , the waiting is the worst part t here , at least , khawaja may have been done a favour t phil hughes was out to the last ball before lunch t so khawaja knew precisely when he was going to start his innings t one source of agonising had been removed t it may have been a long 40 minutes for the 24-year-old but he knew exactly when the ordeal would begin and there was time to pop out to the nets for a few sighters.whatever he did during lunch worked t khawaja raced out on to the pitch after the interval , aching to enter the fray and ready for action , more ready than chris tremlett as it turned out.tremlett's first delivery to him was all too hospitable t there was a post-prandial feel to it as it landed just short of a length and around leg stump t khawaja clipped the ball away through mid-wicket for two runs t he had to wait four days post-selection , 40 minutes post hughes' dismissal , but only about four seconds for that coveted first run.tremlett's next ball was nearer off-stump and shorter t khawaja went back and with time to spare pulled it majestically through the leg-side for four t cue edgbaston 1978 and david gower pulling his first ball in test cricket from liaqat ali to the boundary t oddly (ok and irrelevantly) khawaja often runs between the wickets holding his bat horizontally in both hands , just as gower used to do t more interesting to a nation craving a batting saviour , there was an apparent calmness in khawaja's demeanour , which the young gower also exuded t hence the inclination that khawaja might outstrip beer as a test cricketer.after eight balls he had 15 runs to his name t a tremlett half-volley was clipped away to the square leg-boundary t for a while every time bat hit ball runs were scurried t but this is not really khawaja's style t he may be young but he is not a dasher in the manner of his new south wales colleagues hughes and steve smith t he has only played two twenty20 games for the state and that may be to his advantage as a test cricketer t he plays properly.he certainly played properly against england's seamers on a testing day for batsmen t if he edged his hands , though very low on the handle , were sufficiently relaxed for the ball not to carry to second slip t he defended with a straight bat and precise footwork t he left the ball outside off-stump with sound judgment t then , with a touch of the orient , he flicked the ball square of the wicket on the off-side for boundaries t he looked the part.moreover he seemed unruffled when michael clarke , a pupil from the same westfields sports high school (which also educated the footballer harry kewell) came and went without causing the englishmen much bother t of the two new boys , khawaja to test cricket , clarke to the captaincy , the former seemed to control his emotions and his bat better.given how well khawaja had played the pace bowlers in the gloaming , maybe andrew strauss should have tested him earlier with the off-breaks – and the presence – of graeme swann.the england captain recalled his off-spinner for the 59th over t it would be prove to be the last one of the day and the last one of khawaja's innings t no , the ball was not going to bounce and turn viciously off this surface t but after two hours of composure we were now reminded that khawaja is still a novice t strauss and swann tempted him deliciously and he succumbed.all but two fielders (the slip and the forward short leg) were saving singles when swann started the over , even the man just behind square on the leg-side , who is habitually placed on the boundary for the off-spinner t khawaja defended the first three balls with no difficulty.now captain and bowler started fiddling t ian bell was summoned from mid-wicket to silly-point; they kept jonathan trott at square leg up for the single t there were acres of space on the leg-side.khawaja advanced down the wicket to the next delivery t swann sensed him coming and adjusted his length accordingly t khawaja middled the ball to mid-on , although he was not perfectly positioned t a small moral victory to the off-spinner and a raised eyebrow t a chastened batsman defended the next one , but to the last ball of the over khawaja was seduced by those wide , open spaces t he swept vigorously and up went the top-edge into the hands of jonathan troft.upon his return to the pavilion the members stood and applauded as if khawaja had scored a century t he had offered hope of a new australia side t but he reacted how any proper batsman , who had only scored 37 , should t he kept his eyes on the turf and his bat behind him rather than raised to the sky in acknowledgment t he is an intelligent young man t he recognised that despite batting silkily for two hours , he had squandered his first opportunity t but there will be many more.australia cricket teamengland cricket teamthe ashescricketvic marksguardian.co.uk
• england seal series with a win by an innings and 83 runs• tremlett takes final wicket , causing beer to chop on to stumpsthey came in their thousands to form an english corner of a foreign field for the climax , a day of days in the history of the england team and another one of abject misery for a once-proud australian team fallen on hard times t not even the snap showers washing in to interrupt play , and a flatness to the team on the field , could deny them a third overwhelming victory which came , by an innings and 83 runs , at 11.56 , four minutes before the shipping forecast , and just as billy the barmy trumpeter was playing a poignant last post for the demise of australian cricket.to chris tremlett went the honour , the debutant tail-ender michael beer chopping on to his stumps to spark the celebrations that would go on long into the night t but it took the second new ball to finish the job , as steve smith , who remained unbeaten on 54 , and peter siddle , who had denied england when they had hoped to finish things on the fourth evening , took their eighth-wicket stand to 86 before siddle (43) hit graeme swann precisely to jimmy anderson at deep midwicket.anderson then found the edge of ben hilfenhaus's bat for matt prior to take his 23rd catch , an england record for a five-match ashes series t it took anderson – the fellow too soft to bowl to australians , remember , according to justin langer – to 24 wickets for the series , more than any england pace bowler in australia since frank tyson terrorised them in 1954-55 t australia have now been beaten by an innings three times in the series , unprecedented for them.it was set up on the fourth day by anderson , not just good but brilliant jimmy , indisputably the bowler of the series with daylight second t anderson plunged the knife into what life was left in the twitching carcass of the australian cricket team t the old ball reversed , as it always seems to do for england – the same england , said the sages here in the pre-series propaganda war , who would not know how to use a secondhand kookaburra – and not for australia.but anderson did not just use it , he had it talking , gabbling away , a ball with verbal diarrhoea t with it , he produced one of the best cameo spells of the series and knocked the heart out of the middle of the australian innings: the left- hander usman khawaja , tyro and promising but given a strong lesson in this match that there is a giant step up to the top level , seduced outside off stump as the ball wafted away from him; the right-handed skipper michael clarke , destined perhaps to try to pick this side from the basement and not a great player in sight , put through the wringer , utter torture , before he found no answer to an away-swinger and mercifully also edged to prior.this was an australian side in distress t the first innings in brisbane and the third test in perth were their peaks in a series of otherwise total england domination t the stuffing had long been knocked out of them by the england batsmen , but there was a sorry capitulation where fight was needed t shane watson flamed briefly but ran himself out for once rather than his partner and tim bresnan took advantage of phil hughes's laboured endeavours to become an opening batsman of substance by sliding one across him and watching as the bat nibbled out like a fish taking the bait t it was all too easy.throughout the bulk of the series , australia have been offered little respite by the england attack t wave of attack had followed wave t key to this has been the reverse and england are masters at it , their ability to get a ball into a condition to go after no more than 20 overs a skill that in part involves bowling it with a cross seam so that it first scuffs on the surface (such a delivery accounted for hughes) and is then polished on one side only t but then comes the further skill in using it , for anyone might have a lock pick but not everyone can pick a lock.each of the three seamers is a practitioner and each benefited t when anderson gave way to bresnan after his mesmeric spell , the yorkshireman responded by getting mike hussey caught in the gully , just as hussey had opened the series by catching andrew strauss there with the third ball t and when , at the randwick end , graeme swann conceded the crease to chris tremlett , the giant thundered in to rip out brad haddin and mitchell johnson with successive deliveries , a brutal bouncer followed by a wicked inswinger t when he had the bit between his teeth and the crowd roaring behind him , he looked a very serious proposition.the thing that truly disheartened australia though , that from which there was no response , was another monumental innings from england t in the second innings at brisbane they made 517 for one to give notice of their potential; in adelaide it was 620 for five; and melbourne 513 t killer innings all t but here they made 644 before the final wicket fell by which time australia had taken a third new ball and sent down almost 178 overs.to place it in context , it is the seventh highest total england have ever made and their highest in australia t it meant that england's runs per wicket for the series stood at 51.14 t there were more records , for surely this has been a record series for records t the century that prior scored , the fourth and most robust of his test career , came from 109 balls , the fastest for england since ian botham's flogathon at old trafford in 1981 , with nine fours , a six and a lot of scampering t having added 107 for the seventh wicket with ian bell , prior then helped bresnan put on 102 for the eighth , before swann added insult to johnson's bowling injury t no side in the history of test cricket have managed century stands for sixth , seventh and eighth wickets in the same innings.the ashesaustralia cricket teamengland cricket teamcricketmike selveyguardian.co.uk
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