LAWRENCE BOOTH IN SYDNEY: Australia completed an action-packed five-wicket win on the final afternoon at the SCG to wrap up a well-deserved 4-1 series triumph.

Despite Jacob Bethell's classy century, the Lions will need something special to stop the Aussies sending Khawaja out a winner in his final Test.

Daily Mail Sport's LAWRENCE BOOTH was at all five Tests and below are his Ashes series player ratings.

He only scored six in his final innings and didn't get to hit the winning runs at his beloved SCG - but said he'll cherish the last day of the fifth Test forever.

England paceman Brydon Carse provided some on-field spice after losing his mind at umpire Ahsan Raza on day five of the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney on Thursday.

David Warner has rallied to the defence of Australia selector George Bailey and head coach Andrew McDonald in the wake of the ABC controversy that has engulfed the final Ashes Test.

Usman Khawaja is taking part in his final day as a Test cricketer - but there is a major question mark on the role he'll play in Australia's fourth innings chase

ASHES BREAKFAST: Jacob Bethell danced down the track to an off-break from Beau Webster and launched it over midwicket for the boundary to his parents' delight.

Tomorrow, thank God, the Ashes will come to an end, bringing the curtain down on a series of unforgivable crimes against cricket.

LAWRENCE BOOTH IN SYDNEY: Cause for celebration, then, at the end of a long, humiliating tour, but also cause for regret. This ought to have been Bethell's 14th Test, not his sixth.

Until the bitter end, we have been confronted with the cool indifference of Brendon McCullum, a man more absorbed with his own image than the catastrophe he has visited upon English cricket.