Know Mitchell Johnson who won back Ashes single handedly

New Delhi: Australia regained the Ashes with 3-0 lead in the 5 match series on Tuesday at WACA ground. The chief player in the victory of the Aussies was speedster Mitchell Johnson. It was Mitchell Johnson steaming in with the wind at his back who took the wicket which ended England's three-series hold on the urn. Johnson wasn't considered to be in good enough form for the last Ashes tour, when England completed a 3-0 win at their home turf in August this year.But back on Australian soil, he terrorized the England batsmen, taking 23 wickets to help Australia secure its most coveted prize with two matches to spare. Australia came to the WACA ground needing just one win from the last three tests to secure the Ashes for the first time since their 5-0 series sweep in 2006-07. Mitchell Johnson, with some fiery spells, was man-of-the-match in the 381-run win in Brisbane and the 218-run victory in Adelaide.Mitchell Johnson was called back to Australia from India when the Aussies were on Indian tour in November to warm up for the Ashes, many cricket specialists criticized this decision of the ACB but the decision is now looking like a well rewarded one.On 23rd November 2006, Johnson debuted for the first Ashes Test beginning but was 12th man in all of the games. On 10 November 2007, while playing in 11 men in test match against Sri Lanka at his home ground in Brisbane, Johnson took his first wicket, that of Thilan Samaraweera, caught by Adam Gilchrist. Johnson went on to take 4/96.And then there is no looking back for this young man.He is also good with the bat as on 19 January 2008, Johnson scored his first ever Test half-century, against India at Perth. Till now his best ever test performance with the ball is 8 wickets for 61 runs against South Africa in 2008.He has got 234 wickets in 55 test matches. With the bat he scored 1553 runs in 55 test matches with an average of 23.17 studded with one century and 8 fifties.