'We know we're behind the game again, in the situation we currently stand.'
England called up spinner Shoaib Bashir and seamer Matthew Potts for the final Ashes Test against Australia beginning on Sunday with one of them set to fill the void created by Gus Atkinson's injury-induced absence.
From afar on Saturday, the SCG track looked to have a distinct tinge of green on it as the groundsmen ran the roller over it.
With the Ashes urn in their hands, Australia decided to rule Cummins out of the two remaining Tests.
Steve Smith returns to action in the Boxing Day Test against England as Australia opted to include four fast bowlers in their 12-man squad.
Besides his batting, he was just as exceptional behind the stumps, taking some really clean catches to prove his mettle as one of the best glovesmen in world cricket right now.
Cummins, who was previously optimistic of taking part in a significant chunk of the series, appears to have no chance of playing the series opener in Perth from November 21 and could even miss all five Tests, leaving superstar batter Steve Smith as his stand-in captain.
England tearaway Jofra Archer is willing to do everything in his power to secure a ticket on the plane that will fly to Australia
Even if Australia lose the series for the first time since 1987, they will welcome the urn home next year
Ricky Ponting has reopened the age-old debate about where the Ashes urn is held by declaring Australia should be rewarded with the real item if they defeat England this summer.
The four-inch high artefact was sealed in a protective case and had its own seat in business class as it arrived in Sydney for a three-month tour.
Not even the guardians of the Ashes at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) museum are exactly certain what is in the urn given to England cricket captain Ivo Bligh by his future wife while on a playing tour of Australia in 1883.
England ripped out the last three Australia wickets for 12 runs to win the fourth test by a crushing innings and 78 runs at Trent Bridge on Saturday and regain the Ashes.
The hero of Australia's Ashes whitewash, David Warner, rubbed salt into the wounds of the England team with his picture sleeping with the urn.
'England can regain the urn next summer'
Australia's captain Pat Cummins also dismissed the "completely made up" suggestion that Warner and Smith would walk away at the Oval and said they were focused on the task at hand.
Australia coach McDonald dismisses 'far-fetched' Cummins resignation talk
Leach was ruled out of the five-match series on Sunday due to a stress fracture in his back
Australia opener Usman Khawaja has vented his frustration after the team lost 10 World Test Championship (WTC) points for slow over-rates.
Ben Stokes said there would be no change in his team's approach to the Ashes
Images from the 5th day's play of the 3rd Ashes Test played at the WACA in Perth on Tuesday.
'That's great for our team and in a way Ashes are bloody hard to win. It's not going to be easy but if we were to win it, that is legacy defining stuff.'
England's audacious 'Bazball' flamboyance was trumped by some true Australian grit after five days of cut and thrust Ashes cricket.
Stuart Broad picked up the final two wickets in his last appearance for England to guide the hosts to a series-levelling 49-run victory in the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia.
As the prestigious Ashes gets underway, here's a look at the milestones that can be achieved.
Australia's triumphant Ashes team was feted by thousands of fans and the country's Prime Minister at Sydney Opera House on Tuesday. Take a look how.
Group-hugs and beery celebrations for the retrieval of the Ashes were splashed all over Australian newspapers on Wednesday, as the nation hailed a cricket team that only weeks before was regarded largely with derision.
Alastair Cook has said England were not intimidated by Australia's invincibility at the Gabba and were looking for a big first innings total to set up a breakthrough win at the Brisbane ground.
Goodbye makes ordinary places, ordinary people and ordinary events become interesting, observes Mayur Sanap.
The Ashes urn regained from Australia, England captain Andrew Strauss now wants his teammates to become more consistent and use the triumph as a "stepping stone" to become the world's number one Test side.
Former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan thinks that there are only two small things that need to be sorted out if England are to contemplate retaining the Ashes urn won last year improved batting and better bowling.
A lacklustre Australia maybe on the brink of losing the Ashes urn to England but Ricky Ponting, a superior skipper than his predecessor Steve Waugh, is still the best man to lead the side in Tests, according to former captain Ian Chappell. Chappell felt the selectors sold Ponting down the river, picking an all-pace attack for the unresponsive pitch at The Oval and blaming Ponting for the debacle would be barking up the wrong tree.
Despite retaining the Ashes urn England needs to bring in huge changes to achieve their dream of becoming the best team in the world, feels Australian spin legend Shane Warne.
Legendary Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson has ruled out any chance of England winning the Ashes urn despite the return of Andrew Flintoff who has been declared fit for his swan song Test.
Australia had entered the series in fifth position on 97 points, while England were in the third slot on 105 points.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard made a public appeal on Wednesday for England to hand the Ashes urn over to Australia, saying it may give the battered English team an incentive to win the trophy back.
The England cricket team beat Australia by an innings and 78 runs to regain hold of the Ashes and, like always, their families were over the moon.
Bowling at a slightly slower pace than he did at Lord's, Archer said his style reflected the conditions.
'To stick to your guns when all the cricketing greats, coaches and textbooks say you are wrong -- that takes real courage. And now everyone is watching him bat in amazement, and trying to learn from him. The textbooks on batting technique may need to be rewritten'
Former England batsman Jonathan Trott has called Mitchell Johnson as his 'executioner' during England's ill-fated 2013 tour to Australia. Trott, who pulled out of the series after the first Test due to stress-related issues, described the Australians "like hyenas round a dying zebra" as a frighteningly fast Mitchell Johnson terrorised him. Trott expressed his thoughts in his recently released autobiography.
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