The paper round

Ahhh, here we go. I was expecting Cricinfo to do a round-up of the Ashes coverage, and here it is in all its pomp. Dan also wanted to know what the Aussie papers are saying, so here is coverage of the final day from the Melbourne Age, here is The Australian's list of the ten reasons the Aussies lost the Ashes and here is the same paper's gracious summary of the series. Ricky Ponting meanwhile signs the series off with some naval gazing in his own column.

Both Aussie papers also report the story that the series might have been Shane Warne's last ever in whites.

In other news, the Australian defeat looks like it may have an impact on the upcoming Super Series - with the ICC indicating that if Australia continues with its sub-par performances then it is unlikely to repeat the experiment.