From his first-ball slog, he had no intention of hanging around and, at 2.08pm, when Caddick clean-bowled him, England achieved the result nobody thought possible three weeks ago. Brett Lee smote the ball to all parts of the ground in a whirlwind 46 before Caddick snared him, caught behind.This brought Australia’s last man, Stuart MacGill, to the crease. Like too many batsmen in this series he did not want to go, but the umpire Russell Tiffin sent him on his way. Australia were 181 for 8 and the result was inevitable.Lunch dragged out the tension for another 40 minutes as each England supporter asked another: “Surely they can’t blow it now, can they?” But then, nobody expected Australia just to give England the win they so badly wanted, and they did not.

This assault did not please Hussain, who brought Caddick back into the attack. The change worked as Caddick produced a snorter in his first over to remove Gilchrist, the centurion on the first innings only able to glove the ball to slip. Out.The applause started again as he departed but, embarrassed by his failure, Waugh ran off to the silence of his dressing room. When the off-spin of Richard Dawson proved too much for the passive Damien Martyn, many of the 20,652 who had turned up felt the game could be over by lunchtime.Australia now had their last two recognised batsmen at the crease and every England player or supporter was realising that one more wicket could see them to victory. It was Stephen Harmison who produced the ball that sealed Australia’s fate and there was very little Martin Love could do about it. The ball was pitched short of a length, it grubbed and hit off-stump halfway up.With England now into the tail, Adam Gilchrist decided that it was time to play some shots and he struck Harmison for four fours in an over.

Waugh struck his first ball for four but he was beaten, when he had added just two more runs, by the alarming bounce Caddick was at times extracting from the pitch. Waugh managed to play a defensive shot in mid-air but he could only watch helplessly as the ball ricocheted on to his pad and rolled on to his stumps. It dislodged only one bail but the result is the same as sending stumps cart-wheeling. This time, however, it was apt because there is a fair chance this was his last innings for Australia on his home ground.