Ashes 2015: Fifth Test - day three | Photos

Updated August 23 2015 - 10:37am, first published 10:30am

So this most abstruse and paradoxical of Ashes series is set come to its only fitting end. England, after losing by an innings, some time on Sunday ought to be spraying champagne and shouting hoorays and clambering aboard an open-topped bus to parade around London and be presented with the keys to the city.

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