Steve Smith also stressed the importance of winning every Test match in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC). The stand-in captain also hailed his group for standing up at difficult times throughout the series.
In the five-match Ashes series, the left-arm pacer scalped 31 wickets in 10 innings at a superb average of 19.93, along with two five-wicket hauls. Starc, who finished as the highest wicket-taker, played a crucial role in Australia's 4-1 Ashes victory over the Ben Stokes-led England.
After Australia clinched the five-match Ashes series 4-1 in Sydney against England, Usman Khawaja, who played his final international game, opened up that he found it hard to control his emotions through the fifth and final Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Australian seamer Mitchell Starc joined an illustrious club of bowlers picking 30 or more wickets in an Ashes series this century, according to cricket.com.au.
A fantastic all-round display from Australia as they defeated the Ben Stokes-led England by five wickets in the fifth and final Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney. With this victory, the hosts clinched the five-match Ashes series 4-1.
Australia are on the verge of defeating the Three Lions in the fifth Test of the 2025 Ashes, reaching 71 runs in the second innings on Day 5 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Veteran England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow has hailed his teammate Joe Root for scoring two Test centuries on Australian soil in the ongoing Ashes series. Bairstow has called Root the best player of his generation.
Playing his fifth Test in the ongoing Ashes series, Travis Head has become the first batter to rack up 500 in an Ashes series with a strike rate of more than 75.
England veteran batter Joe Root became the joint-third highest with the most Test hundreds in international cricket, according to the International Cricket Council (ICC).