Mitchell Johnson

Mitchell Johnson's retirement was a surprise to Australia's captain Steven Smith, who described the departing fast bowler as "the ultimate professional"

As he foreshadowed before the WACA Test, Mitchell Johnson has had enough, and will retire immediately from international and first-class cricket at the end of the match

Australia's pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson says he is at that stage of his career where every Test could be his last

Australia's coach Darren Lehmann admits he has no idea how long the team will have Mitchell Johnson, but he believes there are enough good young fast bowlers who can step up whenever Johnson retires

Australia have a 19-0 win-loss record in their last 26 Tests at the Gabba

At 34 and with 71 Tests to his name, Mitchell Johnson is the old veteran of Australia's team, but he is far from spent

Test bowlers Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Johnson were among the wickets as Western Australia sealed victory over Tasmania in the final session of the day-night Sheffield Shield match in Hobart

Mitchell Johnson has admitted to contemplating retirement after watching several of his mates shuffle out of the dressing room

ESPNcricinfo rates the Australia players involved in the Ashes series

Australia's cricketers have responded angrily to suggestions that the presence of their partners and children on tour contributed to the team's loss of the Ashes

ESPNcricinfo looks back on the four Tests in a fast-forward series which decided the Ashes with a match to spare

While the Australian side has maintained unity in the controversy following Brad Haddin's demotion in the side but there appears to some angst about the sequence in which events took place.

Mitchell Johnson is hoping to return to the aggression that saw him bounce out Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes at Edgbaston

In a series of remarkable swings nothing is certain, but Australia are facing some familiar foes as they attempt to recover from their Edgbaston thrashing

It called for eight seconds of trigger-pressing to capture the fast bowler's celebration of Joe Root's wicket at Lord's

Mitchell Marsh's muscular medium fast bowling will lengthen Mitchell Johnson's reign of terror by shortening the length of his bowling spells

Soggy in Cardiff, he was back to red-hot at Lord's, providing a fine exposition of the art of heavy metal bowling

Day four at Lord's will have been traumatic for the England dressing room, but in Australia's celebrations would rightly have been long and loud. How quickly things change