The Ashes have been taken from Australia after 16 years and returned to England by the most unlikely of heroes - a cocky, South African-born batsman with a streak of dyed hair and a massive sense of occasion.
Kevin Pietersen helped England overcome the monumental efforts of the man who has carried Australia's hopes throughout this most gripping of Ashes series, Shane Warne, and ended Australia's long era of Ashes supremacy with a defiant, maiden Test century at the Oval.
