Comment: A Melburnian crowd fortified as much by Victoria Bitter as by the haplessness of the Poms revelled in the casual sadism of it all, writes Oliver Brown.
It is on evenings like these, when the sun slips behind the Southern Stand and Australia’s premier pacemen zero in on their quarry like slavering hyenas, that the Melbourne Cricket Ground becomes a place where few Englishmen dare to tread. The beams and columns that hold together this vast amphitheatre veritably shook as Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and debutant Scott Boland bombarded a pitiful excuse of a top order into helpless terror.
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