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Geoffrey Boycott has hailed Mike Hussey's series-levelling efforts in the third Test as "textbook" and "magnificent"

A week before the Ashes series Ryan Harris didn't expect his body would let him play

Ricky Ponting has told his team to maintain its newly-found high standards after Australia's breakthrough victory ended a five-Test winless streak and squared the Ashes series

It was England's batting that let them down at Perth, but it is the state of their bowling that will give Andrew Strauss and Andy Flower the greater food for thought in the build-up to the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne

Mitchell Johnson has spied the doubts in the eyes of the England batsmen after regaining his powers as one of the game's most potent fast bowlers

Ricky Ponting rates himself "a good chance" to play with his broken little finger on Boxing Day, but won't be too proud to stand down if he's not fit

Australia wasted no time in levelling the Ashes series with a crushing 267-run victory at the WACA as Ryan Harris tore out the remaining resistance with a Test-best 6 for 47 to humble England

In the build-up to this Test match, England referred back so often to Headingley and Johannesburg, the scenes of their capitulations in their last two marquee series against Australia and South Africa, that complacency could not have been further from the

Peter Siddle and his team-mates are basking in Australia's dramatic turnaround but realise the job of regaining the Ashes is far from complete

Plays of the Day from the third day of the third Ashes Test between Australia and England at Perth

Australia's charge towards a series-levelling victory was upset by Ricky Ponting suffering a suspected broken finger that could rule him out of the rest of the campaign

Australia are closing in on a series-levelling victory at the WACA after ripping out five England wickets during the final session to back up Michael Hussey's 116 which continued his phenomenal series

Australia have made a concerted effort to turn up the volume on England and the extra sledging is increasing the tension between the sides

Ian Bell is confident that one bad day will not be allowed to derail England's Ashes campaign, after the tide turned dramatically on the second day at the WACA following a brilliant six-wicket haul for the man of the moment, Mitchell Johnson

Mitchell Johnson has rated his devastating return of 6 for 38 as better than his career-best haul against South Africa here two summers ago

Plays of the Day from the second day of the third Ashes Test between Australia and England at Perth

An enthralling day of action moved the third Test along in fast forward at the WACA with Mitchell Johnson reviving his career and Australia's Ashes fortunes with a brutal 6 for 38 to dismiss England for 187

Australia's Ashes situation is so perilous that the hosts will look anywhere for a good omen. After another day of being dominated by England, Michael Hussey peered back four years to the WACA match when Australia wrapped up the urn on the way to a 5-0 cl

After a wicket from the third ball in Brisbane and one from the fourth delivery in Adelaide, there was more opening-over excitement in Perth

Australia's problems continued on the opening day at the WACA as they struggled to 268 against more impressive bowling from England