“Any chance of getting a refund on the next three, boys?” bellowed a man in canary yellow shirt towards a group of England fans. They do love to stick it to the old country in this part of the world, albeit this exchange occurred early on day three of the second Test.
The worst, it transpired, was still to come. Pushed into an interrogation under lights by Mitchell Starc’s stone-cold 141-ball 77 from No 9, England collapsed under questioning – the kind of late session implosion that means the Ashes urn is unlikely to be changing hands this year.
