Australia had a few nervous moments but safely chased down their 160-run victory target before tea on the final day of the fifth Ashes Test match against England, earning a five-wicket victory and a 4-1 series triumph.Seamer Josh Tongue led England’s battling rearguard with 3-42 but Alex Carey got Australia across the line with a four through the covers in the company of Cameron Green on Thursday.“We’ve played so well as a team,” said Steve Smith, who was standing in for Pat Cummins as Australia captain for the fourth time in the series.“We’ve had some incredible individual performances but … everyone else just stood up at different moments. I think that’s what makes a really good team. We won those big moments throughout the series.”England will take credit for making a game of it and not being ground into the Sydney dirt as previous tourists have in end-of-series dead rubbers at the famous old ground.Without the bowling of injured captain Ben Stokes, however, defending 160 was always going to be an uphill challenge on a good wicket.Australia’s openers managed to get the target under 100 runs before Man of the Match Travis Head, whose third century of the series underpinned his team’s first-innings 567, ballooned a sho …
