I've been having a look at some of the Australian papers online to see what they make of it all (remembering the way their media treated the England team in the 1990's). All good fun to read, I liked this one (from the Australian Telegraph):
'ASKED what the feeling was like in the Australian rooms as the latest collapse became an avalanche, captain Michael Clarke said it was hard to tell.
"There were batsmen putting pads on, batsmen taking pads off." Tasks completed with apparent success. Proving there is at least one aspect of batting the Australians have fully mastered.
But as wickets tumbled at a rate usually only associated with broken election promises, other signs of batting competency were much harder to come by.
Indeed, the latest catastrophe happened in such a blur of flying bails and screamed appeals it was hard to know what to make of it all.
Although, if you had Australias second innings in scorecard form, the best thing to make was a ball scrunched tightly enough to throw with violent force at the nearest waste paper basket.
Abject, pitiful, humiliating. Just some of the words that fail to do justice to an afternoon when Australia managed to turn, in one session, the makings of a famous victory into yet another embarrassing capitulation.'
