Jonathan Agnew

Labouchagne had 10 catches in the series as well.

Mitchell Starks, 31 wickets, averaged just under 20.

And particularly effective at the start of the series.

Against England's top seven, 23 wickets at 21.

Which, over the course of the first part of the series, was one of the decisive factors.

But good support from...

Nyssa and Boland, 15 and 20 wickets for those two respectively.

Nyssa averaged just under 20, Boland averaged just under 25.

He went at 3.12 per over.

Since the start of basketball, only Jasprit Bumrah amongst seamers has gone under 3.4 and over against England.

So we saw them really attack Boland in 2023 in the first innings in Perth effectively, but after that he got a control.

restricted England throughout so Stark had that excellent level of support from those two very experienced bowlers they've taken more wickets by bowlers aged 35 or more than any team in test history and just finally I've been looking at quite a lot in the last couple of weeks

is the number of starts England have had so we look at England's series Joe Root had these two fine hundreds but he had seven failures seven scores below 20 Ben Stokes had seven scores below seven or eight scores below 20 Harry Brook had seven innings of 30 or more but only one score over 52 Ben Duckett had six scores over 20 but no 50s

Lots of unconverted starts.

In terms of reaching 25, England did so in a higher proportion of their innings than Australia, but conversions of 25 to 50s, England only had 11 50-plus scores out of 37 25-plus scores, and that conversion rate just under 30% quarter-centuries to half-centuries, which is a bit of a niche stat, but I think does tell a lot about the story of this series.

The third worst ever by a team in an Ashes series, Australia by comparison.

converted 15 out of 28 so just over half which was above average but not exceptional but England's was a real problem for them throughout this series.

Exhaustive as ever.

Thank you very much.

Exhaustive or exhausting?