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Steve Waugh leads out his side to collect the honours at the end of the 5th Test


Shane Warne with the Man of the Match champers, the Oval, 2001


Phil Tufnell in the field for England at the Oval, 2001


Phil Tufnell batting for England at the Oval, 2001


Marcus Trescothick takes a run for England at the Oval, 2001


Alec Stewart batting for England at the Oval, 2001


Steve Waugh with an off-drive at the Oval, 2001


Jimmy Ormond ; bowling practice for England 2001


Glenn McGrath ; bowling practice in the Baggy Green


Glenn McGrath in the field at the Oval, 2001


Mark Waugh gets the applause for his innings at the Oval


Brett Lee informal portrait


Justin Langer ,left , and Ricky Ponting celebrate Langer's hundred


Justin Langer pushes his way to a 100 at the Oval


Matthew Hayden with a mighty pull to the ropes


An almost balletic performance from Matthew Hayden


The famous gas holders are an ugly backdrop to the Oval ground


Darren Gough in the field at the Oval , 2001


Jason Gillespie ; bowling practice in Baggy Green cap, 2001


Jason Gillespie bowling study


Mark Butcher with an off drive in the first innings


Mike Atherton in his last Test match


Usman Afzaal, more than pleased at getting his first Test match half century


Steve Waugh with the replica Ashes urn


Steve Waugh receives the npower Trophy as 4-1 series winners


Man of the Match Shane Warne with the npower Trophy


The victorious Aussie team with the npower Trophy


Alec Stewart leaves the Oval probably for the last time as a Test bat


Stewart takes a sweep at a Warne delivery


A Colin Miller view of life at the Oval


A dejected England team at the end of the 5th Test


Three giants of modern Australian cricket, Warne, McGrath and Steve Waugh


Steve Waugh triumphant, leads off his team at the end of the match


All a-go for Shane Warne as he gets the wicket of Hussain


Resistance from Mark Ramprakash, here sweeping Warne, was not for long on day five


Trescothick gloves this ball back to bowler McGrath and is out in the second innings


Gilchrist leaps for a high return from the field


England openers Butcher and Trescothick come to the wicket with saving the game as the main object


Steve Waugh leads Australia on to the field on the last day of the 2001 Ashes series


The Oval wicket prior to day 5 of the fifth Ashes Test


A wonderful cut stroke from Ramprakash in his first innings of 133


Mark Ramprakash's innings comes to a close at a score of 133


Darren Gough manages a sweep against Warne


The Darren Gough heave; an Ashes study


Darren Gough is stumped by Gilchrist to end the England first innings


Mike Atherton leaves the Oval field for probably the last time as an England bat after his second innings of 9


Mark Ramprakash celebrates his wonderful century


Shane Warne gets Andy Caddick out first ball, to get wicket number 401


Shane Warne has got Alec Stewart out and thus his 400th Test match victim


Alec Stewart hooks McGrath for four in the England first innings


Glenn McGrath belts out an appeal against Afzaal , but does not get the wicket


Brett Lee pleads for the wicket of Ramprakash, but does not get it


Afzaal looks skyward as he reaches his maiden Test fifty


Afzaal is clearly angry to have got out for his half century just before the tea break


Usman Afzaal hooks this delivery from McGrath only to be caught on the long leg boundary


Smiling Warne has just seen the back of Marcus Trescothick for 51


Ramprakash plays a dogged innings , here keeping out Gillespie


Ramprakash sweeps Warne and gets a single


Hussain with a fine pull for four in his first innings


Nasser Hussain with a lovely off drive for four


Hussain sweeps Warne for two runs on the third morning of the match


Steve Waugh and his slips at the ready


Mike Atherton is clean bowled by Warne for 14


Warne can celebrate as Athers is his victim


Mike Atherton sweeps Warne for four in his innings of 13


Gilchrist turns a ball round the corner in front of a flagging England field


Steve Waugh plays a delivery round to the leg side in his sapping innings


Steve Waugh slides home for his 100th run and his 28th Test Match hundred


Mark Waugh is bowled by Gough for 120


Mark Waugh gets the applause at his 20th Test match century


Steve Waugh is pushed back to his stumps by a Caddick delivery


Steve Waugh with an ungainly slash in the Australian innings


Steve Waugh with a lovely cover drive as Stewart watches from behind the stumps


Mark Waugh with a deft leg side flick in the Australian innings


Mark Waugh and James Ormond battle it out on day two of the Oval Test


Ormond bowling in his first Test match


A first test wicket for Ormond, that of the departing Ponting


Mark Waugh having no problem avoiding an Ormond bouncer


Langer is helped from the pitch by medical staff


Justin Langer receives attention after being hit by Caddick


Justin Langer is felled by a Caddick delivery


Ponting sweeps Tufnell for four runs


Langer, left, and Ponting on the right, as Langer gets a test ton on his recall to the side


Langer drives a ball back past the diving Tufnell on his way to a hundred on his recall


England's Test debutant James Ormond


Stewart whips off the bails but Langer is safe in his ground


Langer manages to nurdle a Tufnell delivery down the off side


Langer survives a bat pad chance to Afzaal at short leg off Tufnell


Phil Tufnell, CricInfo columnist, recalled again to the England side


Justin Langer edges a Gough delivery just short of second slip Butcher


Justin Langer drives Caddick for four


Justin Langer, recalled to the Aussie Test side


Hayden pulls Caddick for four runs


Matthew Hayden swivels to let a Gough delivery by in the first over of the fifth Test


Darren Gough whistles a bouncer past Hayden on the first morning of the Test


I'm aiming for an early return to the England side - Alec Stewart's Diary

Tufnell: It's a funny old game. . . sometimes

Jason Gillespie's Diary: Well played England, but now the aim is 4-1

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