The Ashes live cricket scores: Australia and England resume battle in fifth and final Test at the SCG

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Australian players celebrate with the Ashes Waterford Crystal trophy after winning the Ashes series 4-1.
Australian players celebrate with the Ashes Waterford Crystal trophy after winning the Ashes series 4-1. Credit: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Cricket: The series may be decided, but plenty of pride will be on the line in the fifth and final Test of The Ashes between Australia and England at the SCG.

The tourists were able to put what had been a torrid tour where they surrendered the urn inside 11 match days behind them by claiming their first victory on Australian shores in 15 years in a fast-forward Boxing Day Test.

Australia’s hopes of a 5-0 whitewash were swept away with the loss, but Steve Smith’s side will be looking to ensure England are sent home with a bitter taste in their mouths.

Stay across the latest Ashes action as Australia and England resume their battle in Sydney.

WICKET Head c Carse b Tongue 29

FOUR! Short and Head uppercuts over gully to bring Australia’s target under 100.

OUT! Gone next ball as Head charges down for a wild hack to send a top edge straight up!

Carse moves from mid-off and takes the catch comfortably. Head’s series comes to an end with 629 runs.

10th Over - AUS 0-57

Another 50 partnership is brought up with this pair as Head slaps two.

There’s a swipe for one into the legside.

FOUR! Weatherald reverses again without much control, but there’s no third man as he rolls to the boundary.

9th Over - AUS 0-49

Carse continues.

More plays and misses from Head.

FOUR! Connects the cover drive.

FOU! Weatherald now splits the gap at cover to add to Carse’s frustration.

8th Over - AUS 0-40

Jacob Bethell takes the relatively new ball.

Can he back up his batting heroics?

FOUR! Weatherald breaks out the reverse sweep and nails it.

Pushes one off the back foot.

There’s some turn back into Head who is defensive.

Short and Head middles one to deep cover.

Snicko strikes again

Stokes reviews for caught behind as Weatherald misses another cut.

There’s a murmur as the ball passes the toe of the bat, but it’s not a clear spike. The Barmy Army is cheering every replay while Stokes is high-fiving his bowler.

But the umpire says there’s not enough to overturn and Weatherald survives.

Carse has words with umpire Raza and has to be separated by Brook.

Stokes has his own words now.

England are furious and there are words between Weatherald, Brook, Stokes, Carse and Head now.

“At the point of the ball going past the bat, there was a murmur. It has to be given out,” says Michael Vaughan on Fox Cricket.

“There’s a bit going on out there. That’s just frustration. Fifth Test, boiling over. Let’s allow the players a little bit of leeway,” says Gillespie.

That’s drinks!

6th Over - AUS 0-28

Head knocks one into the legside.

Inside edge saves Weatherald from another LBW.

Defends the rest of the over.

5th Over - AUS 0-27

Head hits a single to deep cover.

Weatherald gets one to point.

CLOSE! Head is rooted to the crease with no foot movement and goes to drive as it moves away to miss the edge.

Short and Head mistimes a pull for one.

4th Over - AUS 0-24

Weatherald gets another single.

Head pushes nicely down the gournd but it’s cut off for one.

Weatherald gets a single off the hip, in fact it’s a leg-bye.

Loose! Wide, and it moves away to beat Head’s cut.

Again! Same ball, same result, though this one bounces more.

Head gets behind this one to keep the strike with a single.

3rd Over - AUS 0-20

Head works one off the hip.

Weatherald drop and runs into the offside.

Head keeps out the yorker, but Carse is attacking the stumps well here.

2nd Over - AUS 0-18

Josh Tongue to share the new ball instead of Matthew Potts. Good move this.

LBW shout first ball as Weatherald moves across but it was heading down.

Short wide, and Weatherald cuts two forward of point.

Full on the pads, but Weatehrald connects this time to get two forward of square.

FOUR! Short wide, and Weatherald crashes it through cover point.

Defends the last

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