Sealed with a kiss! Steve Smith embraces wife Dani Willis while Nathan Lyon's girlfriend Emma McCarthy takes snaps with the urn during champagne celebrations as Australia retain the Ashes
- Australia lost match by 135 runs meaning they drew the five-match series 2-2
- Loss did not dampen spirits because a draw was enough to retain the Ashes
- Nathan Lyon's glamorous young girlfriend posed for snaps with the urn
- Steve Smith, Australia's best player was seen sharing a kiss with wife Dani Willis
Nathan Lyon's glamorous young girlfriend posed for Instagram snaps with the urn during wild celebrations after Australia retained the Ashes overnight.
Real estate agent Emma McCarthy, 27, shared a photo with the 31-year-old spin bowler captioned: 'Keeping the urn, so proud of you.'
Steve Smith, who was Australia's best player in the series, was seen sharing a kiss with wife Dani Willis as the jubilant Aussies sprayed each other with champagne.
Nathan Lyon's glamorous young girlfriend posed for Instagram snaps with the urn during wild celebrations after Australia retained the Ashes overnight
Steve Smith, who was Australia's best player in the series, was seen sharing a kiss with wife Dani Willis on the pitch after the game
Australia players celebrate retaining the Ashes with captain Paine lifting the urn at The Kia Oval, London
Australia celebrate with the Urn after Australia drew the series to retain the Ashes
Australia lost the Test match by 135 runs meaning they drew the five-match series 2-2.
But the loss did little to dampen spirits because a draw was enough for the baggy greens to retain the Ashes after they won in 2017-2018.
Miss McCarthy has been in the UK supporting boyfriend Lyon throughout the series.
She shed tears of joy when Josh Hazlewood took the final wicket of the fourth Test in Manchester as Australia retained the Ashes in England for the first time since 2001.
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Lyon split from his previous partner and mother of his children Mel Waring at the end of 2017.
Miss Waring took to social media last week to say she was not jealous of Miss McCarthy's relationship with Lyon.
The mother-of-two said she has 'never been happier' despite recent articles claiming she was 'gutted' to see the spin bowler's girlfriend trying on wedding dresses while in England.
Eagle-eyed fans also noticed Lyon's girlfriend of two years Miss McCarthy donned a 'N' necklace while dressing up in the glamorous white gowns with fellow WAGs.
Real estate agent Emma McCarthy and spin bowler Nathan Lyon pictured together
Eagle-eyed fans also noticed Lyon's girlfriend of two years Miss McCarthy (second right) donned a 'N' necklace while dressing up in the glamorous white gowns with fellow WAGs
The fifth Test finished with Root, who had the haunted look of a beaten captain before this final Test, flinging himself to his left to catch Josh Hazlewood and give his side the 135-run victory.
Australia never really looked like getting near their formidable target of 399 to win the series as well as retain the urn.
But they made England work hard for a victory that was sealed just after 6pm by two catches by Root off successive Jack Leach deliveries.
The unlikely and spiky figure of Matthew Wade played brilliantly to make his second century of this Ashes.
He finally became the eighth wicket to fall trying to lift Australia somewhere close to what would have been the fifth greatest chase in history.
Stuart Broad registered figures of 4-62 in Australia's second innings as England won the fifth Test to draw the Ashes series
England bowler Jofra Archer stares at adversary Matthew Wade during a tense afternoon battle
A Matthew Wade century gave Australia a brief glimmer of hope of winning the series as day four drew to a close
Jack Leach appeals towards umpire Kumar Dharmasena after trapping opposition captain Tim Paine lbw
Nothing summed up the drama and pure cricketing theatre we have been treated to throughout this summer than the battle between one of Australia's irritants in chief in Wade and England's new fast bowling sensation in Jofra Archer.
All series Wade has been a provocative presence at short leg aiming verbal blows at England, so much so that the stump microphone yesterday picked up Jonny Bairstow saying 'let's have the s***-stirrer' when Wade first came to the crease.
Now here was Archer, making such an impact with white ball and red in his debut international season, digging deep during a mesmerising spell of eight overs to try to prise out the Big Bash captain who had questioned his loyalty to Hobart at Old Trafford.
Archer, who had been having one of his quietest days of the series, cranked up his pace above 95 miles per hour, hit Wade on the shoulder and shared both words and stares with a batsman who refused to back down within sight of his century.
It was Test cricket at its very best and it was a battle won by Wade when he came through the onslaught and then reached his hundred with a scampered single and a roar of triumph before finally being stumped by Bairstow off Root.
Australia's star batsman Steve Smith looks to the heavens after being dismissed for 23 at the KIA Oval
Stuart Broad celebrates after seeing the imperious Steve Smith caught by Ben Stokes at leg slip
If that was the wicket that finally swung the match decisively in England's favour then a victory that preserved Trevor Bayliss's unbeaten home Test record in his final series as coach was inspired by a bowler who always rises to the Ashes occasion.
Stuart Broad, remember, began this summer far from certain of his Test place but it is always dangerous to write him off, especially when Australia are in town, and how brilliantly he has performed in the absence of his old strike partner Jimmy Anderson.
It was Broad, bowling faster and fuller this summer than for many a year, who sent back both Australian openers after slogging Pat Cummins for two sixes at the end of England's second innings, dismissing David Warner for an astonishing seventh time.
And it was Broad, gloriously, who was then to claim the biggest scalp of them all in luring Steve Smith into a trap set by England and falling for just 23 as he flicked the new leader of England's attack to Ben Stokes at leg-slip.
Broad's four wickets in all made him the first England bowler to take more than 20 wickets in four Ashes series and there will be no doubt now over his place on the tours of New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka this winter, even if Anderson returns.
There were four wickets, too, for Leach, the cult batting hero of Headingley who now proved he can do his principal job with the ball, firstly when he claimed Marnus Labuschagne with the help of a brilliant Bairstow stumping.
