Australia captain Ricky Ponting's superb century paved the way for the world champions to beat England by four wickets in the fifth one-day international (ODI) at Trent Bridge. Victory saw Australia go 5-0 up in the seven-match series as they stayed on course to whitewash their oldest foes. Set a seemingly challenging 300, master batsman Ponting's 126 - his best ODI score against England, surpassing the 119 he made at Melbourne in 2002 - took Australia to within sight of victory. They still needed 39 off 36 balls after Stuart Broad had struck twice in the 44th over, Callum Ferguson plumb lbw and Ponting driving to Owais Shah at long-off. But Cameron White and Mitchell Johnson, who ended the match with a six off Ryan Sidebottom saw them home with 10 balls to spare. England's batting had repeatedly failed this series.
