Sport - Ashes 2nd Test Day Five Swann mops up before the storm

Hold that pose Peter. Ta. That's a great shot.

For Australia the rain, in vain, fell a long time after the game. By then England had wrapped up the Adelaide test, beating Australia by an innings for the first time in 24 years. To my son that's a whole lifetime. To the rest of us, it just feels like one.

England is never expected to play the perfect game, whatever sport you care to talk about. We win with wobbles. We win with fingernails chewed to the base. Not this time. This time we won with aplomb. And, of course, a Swann.

Celebrate good times, come on!

Swann knocked over the last three batsmen with ease, a trait previously unknown in English bowlers for a long time. This boy does it for fun. Final figures of 5-91 should have put paid to the knockers who were trying to claim Swann had lost his mojo based on four overs of Aussie attack at the Gabba. Finger spinners at the Gabba  have about as much chance as Chappell against Botham in a car park brawl

Help arrived earlier, for Swann not Chappell, in the form of Anderson (two in two balls, including a golden pair for the hapless Harris) and Finn (the huge wicket of Hussey). Finn took eight balls with the new ball to make the breakthrough, something he might have to do a lot more of now Broad is out of the tour. Tremlett now may have his chance in Perth.

Take away the rain breaks and England actually won this game inside four days. It's impossible to see this Australian attack taking 20 wickets on flat pitches. Australia are in deep trouble. England are in fairytale land.

Australian tears washed down from the stands.