Pat Cummins is rolling around with his son Albie in the middle of the Adelaide Oval. It's just under an hour after Australia have wrapped up a hard-fought 82-run victory to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series. Not too far from this lovely father-son moment, a few of the players' kids are involved in a game of impromptu cricket. The Australian captain, who is in his socks, would claim later to have lost to this particular team, which is led by Alex Carey's son Louis, which is also where he lost his shoes.

A loss he didn't seem to mind on a day when he'd claimed the biggest prize there is for an Australian captain. He'd led his team to Ashes glory for the second time in his career. That too in straight sets with two Tests still to go. That too in what was billed as the most anticipated Ashes tour Down Under from an English team in decades. In what was hyped as probably the best chance an English team has had in this century to not just beat Australia but to teach them a lesson. In what was built up, from an English perspective anyway, as a campaign from Ben Stokes and his team to create a legacy.

All it took the Australians to put all that to rest was 11 days of cricket, most of which they dominated. Most of which they dictated terms in. Most of which they set the tempo to.

All Australia needed to do in the end was play like Australian teams do on Australian soil. Be cerebral. Be unrelenting. Be unwavering. Be ruthless. Like they managed to be after an untoward start on the opening evening of the series in Perth. In what feels a long time ago now.

But it's not that the English gave them much to think about. It's not like the English really challenged them to move away from their original gameplans. Instead the English allowed Australia to play the last two Tests on their own terms, save a few examples of their players showing some fight and grit. Like they did on the final morning of the Adelaide Test.