England tour of Australia: Australia Vs England 4th Test at Melbourne, Dec 26-30, 2013
Teams: Australia Vs England
Venue: Played at Melbourne Cricket Ground
Toss: Australia who chose to bowl first
Preview
Ashes has been swiftly decided. Australia's march to a 3-0 margin from as many matches caused a major outpouring of joy and relief across the host nation, while England was caught up in a similar level of disbelief, anger and finger-pointing. Having had a few days to get their heads around the fact that the Urn will not be flying north at the end of the series.Australia have shown absolutely no desire to rein themselves in after building unstoppable momentum through the first three matches of the series. Theirs is a team of the now, with every intention of making the most of that richly rewarding present. It should not be forgotten that many members of this team not only experienced the loss of the Ashes at home in 2010-11
Last five matches
Australia: W W W D L
England: L L L D W
Match Stats
1.England have not lost a series by a margin greater than 3-0 since their 5-0 defeat in Australia in 2006-07
2.Kevin Pietersen needs 63 runs to move past Geoff Boycott and into fourth place in England's all-time list of Test run scorers
Match Squads
England:AN Cook(c), MA Carberry, Joe Root, KP Pietersen, IR Bell, Ben Stokes,Jonny Bairstow,SCJ Broad,TT Bresnan,JM Anderson,MS Panesar
Australia team:DA Warner,CJL Rogers,MJ Clarke(c),SR Watson,GJ Bailey,RJ Harris,BJ Haddin(wk),SPD Smith,PM Siddle,MG Johnson,Nathan Lyon
