AUSTRALIA

MARCUS HARRIS 2 A walking wicket after replacing Cameron Bancroft. Didn’t reach 20 in six attempts, and had no answer to Broad or Archer from round the wicket.

DAVID WARNER 1.5 A catastrophe. Proclaimed after 61 in the first innings at Headingley that he had relocated his off stump, then made 0, 0, 0, 5 and 11. Averaged 9.5 and fell seven times to Broad. His rictus grin fooled no one: this hurt.

MARNUS LABUSCHAGNE 8 gOt his chance because Smith had concussion, but grabbed it and didn’t let go, scoring four fifties in succession. His leaving outside off was exemplary, and he took the vital wicket of leach with his leg- spin in the final hour in Manchester.

STEVE SMITH 10 tHE best since Don Bradman. Not until the fifth test did England force him into errors, but by then he had already won Edgbaston and Old trafford more or less by himself. MATTHEW WADE 7 BEgAN and ended with a hundred, and yesterday came through a

lightning spell from Archer. Didn’t manage many runs in between, or win many friends.

MITCHELL MARSH 7 BrOugHt in at the death, and responded with a career-best five-for, plus a touching press conference in which he suggested: ‘Most of Australia hate me.’ Failed to impress with the bat.

TIM PAINE 6 HE leaves England with the urn, which is why he scores as many as six. His batting was sketchy and his use of the DrS abominable.

PAT CUMMINS 9 AlWAyS in the game, he took at least three wickets in an innings eight times out of 10, and underlined his status as the world’s No 1 bowler. the only miracle was he never claimed a five-for.

PETER SIDDLE 6 AuStrAlIA preferred Siddle to Starc at Edgbaston, where he responded by going at two an over. But two more tests produced average results.

NATHAN LYON 6.5 StArtED superbly with nine wickets in the first test, but England decided to play him off the back foot, with profitable results: his 11 wickets in the last four tests cost 46 each.

JOSH HAZLEWOOD 8 NOt far behind Cummins, despite his omission at Edgbaston, and played a big part in keeping root quiet.

JAMES PATTINSON 7 uNFOrtuNAtE to play only twice: Australia’s tightest bowler, at 2.56 an over.

USMAN KHAWAJA 5 COuNtEr-AttACkED elegantly a couple of times, but could not pass 40.

MITCHELL STARC 6 vICtIM of Australia’s policy of bowling dry, and played only once.

CAMERON BANCROFT 4 DIDN’t make it beyond the second test — squared up too easily outside off stump.

TRAVIS HEAD 5.5 HElPED save the lord’s test, but struggled against England’s roundthe-wicket attack.