England recall James Anderson for fifth Ashes test

The 34-year-old’s impending departure from Tests, his last remaining global format, was disclosed on Saturday, the day England officially regained the Ashes.

Symonds comments came as Clarke lashed critics over persistent talk of disharmony in the Test team and claims the presence of the WAGS was a factor in losing the Ashes.

“The last thing I want to do is take the thunder away from Alastair Cook and the England team”, Clarke said. “I think there is more to come” – Sky Sports.

Former Australian cricketer Shane Warne tweeted: Congrats on a great career buddy.

“Hopefully I’ll get a microphone and sit beside you in the commentary box”. As far as captaincy is concerned, Cooky has just won the Ashes for the second time, so hopefully he’ll be in charge of us for a long time.

Steve Smith is likely to take over.

He also said Smith, who lead Australia to victory against India in the home summer, was more than ready to fill Clarke’s shoes despite the 26-year-old’s disappointing Ashes with the bat. My performances over the last twelve months have not been acceptable to me.

“The players are as tight as any team I’ve been a part of”.

“He wasn’t putting too much pressure on himself, which I think happened in the past”.

The whole innings was over and done with in 18.3 overs.

“It still affects me personally but as an Australian sportsman, you need to be leading from the front and still performing and unfortunately I haven’t been able to do that”.

“I think it’ll be a smooth transition”.

“People say, ‘Are you sure you’re not going overboard with these guys?’, but it’s fantastic the skill levels they’ve got”.

Alastair Cook called on the crowd to pay tribute to his vanquished counterpart during the post-match ceremony.

Australia have lost seven Ashes Tests under him, the most by any Australian as a captain.

The Nottingham nightmare is Clarke’s 13th away defeat as Test captain.

Australia’s decision to drop Mitch Marsh for the fourth Test in favour of his specialist-batsman brother Shaun Marsh was roundly criticised, especially by English pundits, since the time it was disclosed at the toss on Thursday.

“It’s pretty unbelievable. It’s not sunk in”, Broad told Sky Sports during the innings break after drawing level with England great Fred Trueman’s career tally of 307 Test wickets.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Sunday that Clarke will be missed as captain.

It was also the first time this year that England, whitewashed 5-0 in Australia in 2013/14, had won back-to-back Tests.

“And disappointing given we have had some significant highs including a World Cup win only just a couple of months ago”.