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Chester-le-Street: Graeme Swann took 5 for 28 as England bowled Australia out for 176 and won 7th and last One-day by 4-wickets with 10 overs spare on Sunday and avoid first 7-0 whitewash.
England's desire to avoid humiliation proved a greater incentive than Australia's desire to complete an arduous tour with an unprecedented 7-0 whitewash (but only just), as Graeme Swann's maiden five-wicket haul proved the difference between the sides in the final match of the series at Chester-le-Street.
England being England, they still managed to make a meal of their chase of 177 to win, slumping from 106 for 0 to 141 for 5 before Paul Collingwood dragged them kicking and screaming to a spectacularly inglorious victory. Coming on the last official day of summer, and comprehensively overshadowed by a pulsating Manchester Derby in the Premier League, this was quite simply a contest too far. Tomorrow the teams jet off to South Africa for the Champions Trophy, and on the evidence of the past three weeks, you might as well send England straight back home again.
Earlier, Graeme Swann took 5 for 28 as England bowled Australia out for 176 on Sunday.
Although Ricky Ponting made 53 to become the third highest One-day scorer of all time, Australia had no real answer to the off-spin of Swann, who also caught opener Shane Watson with no runs on the board. Michael Hussey contributed 49 and Michael Clarke 38 for Australia.
The Australians didn't make it to the 47th over and the impressive bowling performance, in which Graham Onions also conceded only 28 off nine overs, gave Andrew Strauss' team a good chance to end the series with a victory. Six straight One-day losses had taken some of the shine of his team's triumph over the Australians in the Ashes Test series.
Watson lasted only four balls before he edged a delivery from Jimmy Anderson to first slip and Tim Paine, who scored 111 at Trent Bridge on Thursday, made only four before snicking a catch to wicketkeeper Matthew Prior off the returning Onions.
That left Australia in trouble at 17/2 in the fourth over but Ponting and Clarke steadied the innings with a third-wicket stand of 79 during which the Australian captain overtook Pakistan's Inzaman-ul-haq to move up to third in the all-time batting list.
Ponting reached his 68th One-day half-century by pulling a short ball from Paul Collingwood over square leg for his eighth boundary before he mistimed a delivery from Swann to Collingwood at mid-on.
James Hopes added 11 off 23 balls before he lobbed an easy catch to bowler Swann and the spinner removed Mitchell Johnson for 10 and Brett Lee in the same over.
Swann conceded only 28 runs off his 10 overs and England's other spinner, Owais Shah, caught Nathan Hauritz off his own bowling for three.
Hussey defied England by hitting paceman Anderson for four and six off successive balls but was out one short of his 50 when he lofted a catch to Joe Denly to give Tim Bresnan a wicket.
Brief score:
Australia: 176 (Ponting 53, Swann 5-28)
England: 177 for 6 (Denly 53)
Result: England won by 4-wickets
Man of the match: Graeme Swann (England)
Man of the series: Cameron White (Australia)
Series: Australia won 7-match series by 6-1.
