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Some solace for England

AFP, Sydney
England finished their miserable Ashes tour on a victorious note with a 225-run thrashing of Australia to prevent a historic 5-0 series whitewash in the final Test here on Monday.
Pounded in their first three Tests to lose the series in a whirlwind 11 playing days before exerting pressure in the fourth Melbourne Test, Nasser Hussain's tourists saved their best until last to outplay the Australians.
Buttressed by Michael Vaughan's majestic second innings of 183 and 34-year-old paceman Andy Caddick's 7-94 to skittle Australia for 226, England shoved to one side the memories of Australia's superiority to savour a special victory.
England set Australia an overwhelming task of chasing 452 for victory, but swept to a massive victory as Caddick produced his second-best bowling performance to wreck the vaunted Australian batting line-up.
In the end the victory was completed in 54 overs -- 34 overs on Monday -- as Australia collapsed under the concerted pressure with bowlers Andy Bichel (49) and Brett Lee (46) the topscorers.
It was Australia's first Test defeat at home in four years since England claimed the 1998 Boxing Day Test in Melbourne and only their third to England in the last 15 Ashes contests.
But Hussain was looking at the bigger picture when asked if Monday's euphoric victory helped ease the pain of the 4-1 series
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defeat.
"No, not really, it's the same old story, we lost the Ashes 4-1 so that's the bottom line," Hussain told his post-match press conference. "But, it's been a very enjoyable five days, it was a great Test match, one of the best I've played in, not only because we won, but because of the (crowd) support, the conditions, Steve Waugh, their team, our team... it was a great Test match.
"Let's not suddenly make out that everything's turned around," he cautioned. "When we play on a wicket and the ball swings around we have bowlers and batsmen who can cope with that."
Waugh said Australia missed their opportunities with some dropped catches on the opening day and England outplayed Australia.
"The guys are a bit tired and weary, we've played eight Tests in the last 12 weeks with some travelling and one-dayers in between, and the Tests in Sharjah, whilst they weren't very long, certainly took something out of our bowlers,' he said.
"It's hard to maintain that sort of intensity and quality over a long period of time and in this Test match we just weren't good enough and England capitalised better on their opportunities."
Caddick maligned for much of the one-sided series, had his day on
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Monday with the wickets of Waugh, Bichel (49), Adam Gilchrist (37), Lee (46) and Stuart MacGill (1) to add to his dismissals of Justin Langer (3) and Ricky Ponting (11) on Sunday evening.
It was his best Test match return since his 7-46 against South Africa in Durban in December 1999.
Caddick's 10 match wickets wickets gave him 234 Test wickets and just two behind Alec Bedser (236), the sixth all-time leading English wicket-taker.
The New Zealand-born fast bowler condemned Australia to a heavy defeat when he snared the vital wicket of Australian skipper Waugh, who defied them with an exhilarating 102 in the first innings on Friday.
Waugh played on to Caddick for six, and with the 10,000-Test rungetter back in the pavilion, Australia had no-one who could extricate them from the deep hole.
Caddick wrapped up the Test with the wickets of Lee and MacGill after lunch the Test match finishing at 2.08pm (0308GMT).
Vaughan was chosen as man-of-the-match with his second innings 183 and also judged the man-of-the-
series, even as a member of the losing side.
It was his third hundred of the series to propel the Yorkshire opener to 663 runs for the series at an average of 63.3.
Steve Waugh was among Vaughan's many admirers.
"To get three big hundreds in a losing side against probably the best attack in the world, playing away from your own country that's a great performance, one of the best in Ashes history," Waugh said.
The Australians were bidding for only the second 5-0 Ashes clean sweep since Warwick Armstrong's team beat England here in 1920-21.
The Sydney Test was watched by the second-biggest attendance on record with a five-day aggregate of 181,778 people.