THE ASHES: The Daily Mail’s Nasser Hussain thinks Melbourne was the perfect performance from England. Discipline sums it up. In The Financial Times Matthew Engel says that in a manner one can only describe as un-English, England have done everything right. Australia watched in some awe and with an unfamiliar kind of respect. The Guardian’s Mike Selvey credits England’s astute choice of selecting Tim Bresnan for driving Australia into the abyss. In The Times Simon Barnes says never let the fact that Australia have been, by their high own standards, a bad team obscure the fact that England are, by their own much lower standards, a very good team. Matthew Syed thinks the most vital and intriguing question surrounding Andrew Strauss and his men today is not technical or tactical, it is psychological. It is a question of whether they can continue to repudiate the slightest tendency to contentment. The Daily Mirror’s Oliver Holt thinks England have finally banished their ghosts and the Aussies have started to hate themselves. What a series. Ian Botham believes England have not just beaten the Aussies , they have broken them. England will be hungry for more in Sydney. The Independent’s Mark Steel says it feels like we’ve all taken part in the victory because it takes effort to stay up all night watching The Ashes. Those of us who took the trouble have earned the trophy. Peter Roebuck thinks England deserve enormous credit for the sustained excellence of their cricket in this series. Watching them has given pleasure to all save the most one-eyed observer, a breed not unknown in either nation.
ANCELOTTI UNDER PRESSURE: The Independent’s James Lawton argues that if Carlo Ancelotti goes the way of JoseMourinho and Luiz Felipe Scolari, Roamn Abramovich's gunbelt notches will provide the darkest evidence of his extraordinary belief that in football matters he knows best.
QUOTE: ‘I definitely have to re-evaluate where I'm at as far as being a Test batsman is concerned.’ Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
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