The Australian media ruthlessly hammered their players as they covered off the Ashes disaster in Trent Bridge Test.
"Before lunch, Australia had already been Broadsided. By stumps their Ashes campaign was all but Rooted," was how Sydney's Daily Telegraph decribed the day one in Nottingham
that saw Stuart Broad taking 8-15 as Australia were dismissed for 60 and then Joe Root score 124 as the hosts took 214 runs lead at stumps on the day 1 of the fourth test at Trent Bridge.
that saw Stuart Broad taking 8-15 as Australia were dismissed for 60 and then Joe Root score 124 as the hosts took 214 runs lead at stumps on the day 1 of the fourth test at Trent Bridge.
Quick collapse of Australia could enable Australia's newspapers to cover the match in their Friday editions despite the time difference between the two countries on either side of the world.
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "Pomicide" and "Nightmare in Nottingham", Melbourne's Herald Sun termed it an "Ashes disgrace" and Brisbane's Courier Mail featured a large image of Stuart Broad's reaction to Ben Stokes' outstanding catch on the front page with the headline "Shocker".
"Australia fielded a team only on paper and they might as well fly home now because the Ashes is as good as over," the Daily Telegraph mercilessly reported.
"The mental disintegration of the Australian batsmen was almost hard to believe."
Australia's Sky News tried went a bit ahead by sarcastically pointing out: "On the positive side Australia passed its lowest ever test score of 36, scored against England in 1902."
News.com waved the white flag for Michael Clarke's team, reporting: "The Ashes are over. When Australia tries and picks up the pieces tonight in Nottingham it will simply be playing the part of the toothless foe that is no threat to even slightly aggrieve England's Ashes victory procession.
"The mental disintegration of the Australian batsmen was almost hard to believe."
Australia's Sky News tried went a bit ahead by sarcastically pointing out: "On the positive side Australia passed its lowest ever test score of 36, scored against England in 1902."
News.com waved the white flag for Michael Clarke's team, reporting: "The Ashes are over. When Australia tries and picks up the pieces tonight in Nottingham it will simply be playing the part of the toothless foe that is no threat to even slightly aggrieve England's Ashes victory procession.
"In the space of half an hour it was over. The famous Ashes urn ripped out of our clutches, by a stunning spell of fast bowling by England seamer Stuart Broad. Bang. Bang. Bang. Just like that it was over and the post mortem into Australia's spectacular Ashes disintegration had begun."
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