Just when it seemed like Australia have been inside touching distance of an Ashesh sequence win, England performed fearless crickets to stage the Ashes sequence on a dramatic ultimate day of the fifth Test at The Oval. Australia have been well-placed at 264-3, chasing a mammoth 384 to win, and even had they arrive away with only a draw, that may have been sufficient to safe a 2-1 sequence success. But as an alternative they suffered a dramatic collapse after a prolonged rain delay on the fifth day at The Oval.

Ravichandran Ashwin gave his tackle the Drawn sequence. “A mistake that Australia did in the last three Tests is that, when your foot is on the pedal, you should not even think about hitting the brake or think to play it safe. That’s what England showed to Australia. The same Australia when they played India at they same Oval, they scored excess of four runs per over. I don’t know whether their DNA got mapped this way or whether their ego took over to prove England by playing too slowly. They lost the plot in all three Test matches playing too slowly,” he mentioned on his YouTube channel.

“Australia retained the Ashes, but England have shown yet again that they are playing a form of cricket that is entertaining,” the 36-year-old added.

Ashwin defined that Australia badly missed the companies of Lyon. “Even in the first Test, England played at the same tempo. But somehow, Nathan Lyon ended up picking eight wickets. It looked like England batted well, but they would have scored only 270-280. You can’t score 6-7 runs in his overs consistently. Mitchell Starc picked up wickets in the last four Tests, but it’s not easy to be as accurate as a Nathan Lyon, pitching the ball consistently and getting turn.

“Nathan Lyon was extra like an vital cog within the wheel. It’s not straightforward to interchange the cog within the wheel. This Ashes is a first-rate instance of that. Once Lyon obtained injured, their assault turned one-dimensional.”