Local press relatively restrained in coverage of Australia’s series winOverall sentiment that hosts deserve to have wrapped up victoryAustralia’s press took to England with subdued vigour in the wake of a comprehensive Ashes victory, secured on the final day of play in the third Test at the Waca.Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, no stranger to hyperbole, was the most enthusiastic, declaring: “Rivalry dead: Brilliant Aussies humiliate pathetic Poms”. Other major news outlets settled on recycled puns, with the West Australian editorialising that Australia had “urned” it, while the Herald Sun simply ran with “Smashes!” Continue reading…
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