Vaughan Heroics Seal England Victory

Andrew Caddick was the hero with seven second-innings wickets as Australia were dismissed for 226, giving England a 225-run win.

Caddick struck two early blows to Australia's hopes of foiling England's victory bid and extending their unbeaten home record in Test cricket beyond four years.

The Somerset paceman, who overtook Darren Gough as England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker on Saturday evening, made the first in-road with his fourth ball of the day.

Another leg before decision accounted for Andrew Bichel, who had made merry on a crumbling Sydney strip, having been sent in to take the shine off the new ball.

But Caddick, followed a steepling delivery with one that nipped back to dismiss Bichel for his overnight total of 49, the Queenslander's Test-best score.

That brought Australian captain Steve Waugh, subject to much conjecture over his future as an international cricketer, to the crease.

Waugh met the prospect of batting out three sessions by tucking his first ball off his pads for four.

However, the veteran's stay at the crease was brief as the Australians, needing an increasingly unlikely record fourth-innings total of 452 to complete a 5-0 series whitewash, slipped to 99 for five.

Caddick claimed his fourth wicket of the innings somewhat fortuitously as one jagged back to squirm onto off-stump via a combination of Waugh's inside edge and his boot studs.

Waugh left the field for the final time in his record-equalling 156th Test match at a gallop, to a standing ovation from the smattering of members in the pavilion.

With his departure, Australia's hopes deteriorated further and Martyn Love was greeted with another delivery that exploded off the surface from Caddick, the batsman taking a blow to his shoulder.

Caddick's spell of 7-2-12-2 provided the initial damage and off-spinner Richard Dawson claimed a third wicket in the 17th over of the morning.

The Yorkshireman turned one sharply, Damien Martyn inside-edged onto his thigh and wicketkeeper Alec Stewart reacted smartly to hold the rebound one-handed to his right.

And Love, who made a breezy 27, soon followed in Steve Harmison's third over- having survived a confident leg before appeal two balls earlier, a shooter crept through his defence to hit middle stump.

First-innings centurion Adam Gilchrist then launched a counter-attack with a 29-ball 37, which included four boundaries off consecutive legitimate Harmison deliveries.

But the returning Caddick accounted for him, the Somerset bowler completing his five-wicket haul with with a snorter that reared to head height and rapped the glove to provide a simple catch for Mark Butcher running around from second slip.

Then, another blitz by Brett Lee, which included 26 runs from two Caddick overs, was halted when extra bounce gave Stewart a catch behind and Caddick finished things in the same over when Stuart MacGill swung and missed a straight one.