Recent Boxing Day Ashes Test matches

2006 Fourth Test...

Australia Won by an Innings and 99 Runs (Series 5-0)

Man of the match: Shane Warne

England 159 (Strauss 50, Warne 5/39) and 161(Lee 4/47, Clark 3/30) def by Australia 419 (Hayden 153, Symonds 156)

2002 Fourth Test...

Australia won by five wickets (Series 4-1)

Man of the match: Justin Langer

Australia 6 dec 551 (Langer 250, Hayden 102, S Waugh 77, Love 62 no, C White 3/133) and 5/107 (Ponting 30, Langer 24, Caddick 3/51) def England 270 (White 85, Gillespie 4/25) and 387 (Vaughan 145, Key 52, MacGill 5/152, Gillespie 3/71)

1998, Fourth Test...

England won by 12 runs Series (3-1A)

Man of the match: Dean Headley

England 270 (Stewart 107, Ramprakash 63, MacGill 4/61, McGrath 3/64) and 244 (Hick 60, Hussain 50, Stewart 52, Nicholson 3/56, MacGill 3/81) def Australia 340 (S Waugh 122 no, Langer 44, MacGill 43, Gough 5/96, Mullaly 3/64) and 162 (M Waugh 43, S Waugh 30no, D Headley 6/60, Mullaly 2/20)

1994 Second Test...

Australia won by 295 runs (Series 3-1)

Man of the match: Craig McDermott

Australia 279 (S Waugh 94no, M Waugh 71, D Gough 4/60) and 320 (Boon 131, Slater 44, Gough 3/59) def England 212 (Thorpe 51, Atherton 44, Warne 6/64, McDermott 3/72) and 92 (McDermott 5/42, Warne 3/16)

1990 Second Test...

Australia won by eight wickets (Series 3-0)

Man of the match: Bruce Reid

England 352 (Gower 100, Stewart 79, Larkins 64, Reid 6/97) and 158 (Gooch 58, Larkins 54, Reid 7/51, Matthews 3/40) def by Australia 306 (Border 62, Taylor 61, and 2/197 (Marsh 79 no, Boon 94 no)

1986 Fourth Test...

England won by an innings and 14 runs (Series 2-1)

Man of the match: Gladstone Small

Australia 141 (Jones 59, Small 5/48, Botham 5/41) and 194 (Marsh 60, S Waugh 49, Edmonds 3/45, Small 2/40, Emburey 2/43) def by England 349 (Broad 112, Lamb 43, Gatting 40, McDermott 4/83, Reid 4/78)

1982 Fourth Test...

England won by three runs (Series 2-1)

Man of the match: Norman Cowans

England 284 (Tavare 89, Lamb 83, Hogg 4/69, Yardley 4/89)  and 294 (Fowler 65, Botham 46, Pringle 42, Lawson 66, Hogg 3/64, J Thomson 3/74) def Australia 287 (Hughes 66, Hookes 53, Marsh 53, Willis 3/38, Miller 3/44) and 288 (Border 62 no out, Hughes 48, Cowans 6/77)