The Ashes: Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton on whether MCG pitch was acceptable with Cricket Australia set to lose millions of dollars

The drought is over.

After 15 years, England have finally won another Test in Australia, coming out on the right side of a fast-moving, two-day clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Talk of a 5-0 whitewash can now be parked but you sense there will be plenty more chat about the MCG surface, which featured 10mm of grass, as 36 wickets fell in just 142 overs of a wild match.

None of those 142 overs were bowled by a spinner with seamers monopolising on a heavily-grassed pitch on which no batter passed 50 - Travis Head's 46 for the hosts the best of the lot.

The brisk finish will cost Cricket Australia millions of dollars as ticket refunds are issued and the organisation suffers lost sales in merchandise, food and drink.