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Imran took 16 wickets in seven matches, including a hat-trick, as he spearheaded Peshawar to the title with a win over Karachi in Tuesday’s final.

Hales made his name as a dynamic ball-striker in white-ball cricket but has been selected to tour the Emirates despite a lean Royal London series against Australia.

After winning the Ashes series 3-2 against Australia, England has climbed three spots to third position in the global Cricket Council Test team rankings.

Peter Siddle made the breakthrough when he trapped Mark Wood lbw for six before Jos Buttler chipped Mitchell Marsh to mid-off for 42.

An abysmal batting performance by England has given Australia a commanding advantage in the final Test of their tour, with the tourists eager to end a frustrating summer of five day cricket on a high.

Earlier, a ninth-wicket stand of 57 between Moeen Ali and Mark Wood saved just a few, but not many, of England’s blushes before the same pair both fell to Johnson in a fitting anti-climax to an unsatisfactory batting display.

That was in 2013. It is not as if the batsmen are on top either.

He has watched England’s success this summer from afar, but enthusiastically.

England’s all-time leading wicket taker missed the fourth Test with a side strain suffered during his team’s eight-wicket win in the third Test at Edgbaston.

Board would write himself into English cricket folklore by bowling out Australia for a meagre 60 runs in their first innings.

England’s Ben Stokes, 2nd right, is congratulated by Mark Wood, right, and teammates after catching Australia’s Adam Voges, bowled by England’s Stuart Broad for 1 run during day one of the fourth Ashes Test cricket match, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, England.

At lunch, Australia were 14 without loss in their second innings – still 317 runs behind – as England eyed a win that would put them 3-1 up in the five-match series and see them regain the Ashes.

He will play the final Test at The Oval on August 20 before the curtain comes down on a distinguished career.

The England team celebrates as Mark Wood bowls out Australia’s Nathan Lyon to wrap up the fourth Test and seize the Ashes series at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Saturday.

“There’s going to be some tough times but the talent we have in the Australian sporting community is like no other”.