Sydney: Australia's cricket coach Darren Lehmann took responsibility for the crushing Ashes defeat to England, saying that his players were desperate to make amends in the final Test at The Oval.


Darren Lehmann 

"On behalf of our team I want to apologise for the manner in which we have lost, especially to those tour groups and individual fans who paid to travel to the UK to watch us and to the millions more tuning in at home," Lehmann wrote in a column for Cricket Australia website.