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'Aussie selectors erred'

AFP, Sydney
Chairman of selectors Andrew Hildilch on Monday refused to blame his panel for Australia's shattering loss of the Ashes to England.
Australia's 197-run loss in the fifth Test at The Oval on Sunday, which delivered England a 2-1 series victory, led all the news bulletins in sports-obsessed Australia on Monday as the ramifications sankin.
Ricky Ponting's captaincy and the selectors' decisionmaking came under fire for the series loss but they appeared likely to hold on to their positions with Cricket Australia's chief executive James Sutherland fully supportive of their performances.
Ililditch admitted his panel erred by not choosing specialist spinner Nathan I lauritz for the final Test, but he refused to blame the selection of an unbalanced side on a spinfriendly pitch for Australia's humiliatingdefeat.
Ponting became only the second Australian skipper in more than a century to have twice lost an Ashes series in England, and Ililditch said he was gutted and in a state of disbelief over the final Test defeat inside four days.
"We would've changed the side (from the fourth Headingley Test) if we'd read the wicket right, and we would've played Nathan Hauritz," Hilditch told a news conference in Adelaide on Monday.
"But it would be an oversimplification to say that meant we lost the Test match, that'd be incorrect. We lost the Test match because we got 160 in the first innings.
"Jamie Cox was the selector on duty, but everybody misread the wicket, from our entire playing group, captain
and coach included, and that just happens.
"To see the hard work that all those players put in, a very important series for everybody. to see It fall apart at The Oval was hard for everybody."
Hilditch, who has been a frequent target of critics during his controversial tenure as chairman, said he was shocked by the Ashes outcome.
"I'm feeling gutted and In some disbelief over the last coupleofdays," hesaid.
"Tlte traditional signs of who's going to win aTest series are all there and it should have been Australia.
"We had six of the top seven batsmen, 10 centuries, eight of them Australian, the three leading bowlers in the series were all Australian.
"Everything indicates that we dominated theTest series."
But he said that "we lost the Test series through five hours of cricket. We lost the Test series in the last hour in Cardiff (first Test) when we should have won. I thought at the time it was going to hurt us, which it did.
Other key phases were" two hours of batting at Lord's in the second Test and maybe even an hour's batting at The Oval in the first innings, when we really needed to get 400-500 runs and get into a good position.
"The Test series really came down to us losing key moments and England winning key moments. It didn't come down to individuals, it came down to England winning the critical moments and (us) losing them."
Hilditch said Australian cricket was in a rebuilding phase following the keenly felt retirements of Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden and Glenn McGrath.
"The reality check is we' re a young side, a rebuilding side, we've lost a lot of great players but had no time to reflect on
that, we've got to reflect on the future," he said.
"We re going to have ups and downs in performance j over the next couple of years while we continue a rebuildingprocess.
"The process is far from over. We've still got players we're going to lose in the next coupleofyears."
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard ar crumps on the fourth day ol rhe fifth and final Ashes Test between England and Australia al The Oval on Sunday.
ENGLAND: First innings 332 (Bell 72, Strauss 55; Siddle 4 75, Hilfenhaus3-71)
AUSTRALIA: First innings 160 (Katich 50; Broad 5-37, Swann 4-38)
ENGLAND: Second innings 373-9 deci (Trott 119. Strauss 75, Swann 63; North 4-98)
AUSTRALIA: Second innings (overnight 80-0)
Watson lbw b Broad 40
Katich lbw b Swann 43
Ponting run out (Flintoff) 66 Hussey c Cook b Swann 121 Clarke run out (Strauss) 0
North st Prior b Swann 10
Haddinc Strauss bSwann 34
Johnson c Collingwood bHarmison 0 Siddle c Flintoff b Harmison 10 Clarke Cook bHarmison 0 Hilfenhausnotout 4
Extras: (b-7,lb-7,nb-6) 20
Total: (All out m 102.2 overs) 348 Fall of wickets: 1-86, 2-90, 3-217, 4-220. 5-236, 6-327, 7-327,8-343,9-343.
Bowler O M R W
Anderson 12 2 46 0
Flintoff 11 1 42 0
Harmison 16 5 54 3
Swann 40.2 8 120 4
Broad 22 4 71 1
Collingwood 10 10
Result: England won by 197 runs and clinched five-Test Ashes series 2-1.
Man-of-match: Stuart Broad. Men of the series: Andrew Strauss (England) and Michael Clarke (Australia)