Jonathan Agnew

Extreme low scores at those two two-day tests.

The first time there's been two two-day tests in a series since the 1890s.

Australia, two 500-plus first innings, two sub-200 first innings, which is unique in test history in a single series.

Look at the overall runs per wicket.

33.5 for Australia batting, 26.7 for England batting.

Actually, of the nine Ashes series England's lost in Australia since 1990, that was the lowest margin of thrashing in terms of runs per wicket.

But I'm not sure it tells the whole story of the series.

Look at runs per over.

Australia 4.25 in this series, their fastest scoring Ashes series.

England 3.89.

It's the first Baz Ball series in which England have been

outscored in terms of runs per over.

And you compare it with 2023, England scored at 4.74, Australia at 3.35.

So a huge turnaround from that series and Australia scoring at the sort of rate that we've seen from England since Stokes and McCullum took over.

If we break

Stokes mentioned the first couple of years, particularly that first of 18 months up to the end of the 2023 Ashes when they basically played a good series, could have won it, pushed Australia close and scored very fast against Cummins, Hazelwood and Boland in particular in a way that no other team has done before or since.

At the end of that series, England had won 13 and lost 4 out of the 18 tests since Stokes and McCullum took over.

They'd scored at 4.8 and over and conceded at 3.3 per over.

Since then, 28 tests, 13 wins, 14 defeats.

They've scored at 4.3 and conceded at 3.7.