Joe Root top-scores with 50 but no other batter passes 35 as Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon share six wickets; Haseeb Hameed records England's 50th Test duck of 2021.
The recalled Jonny Bairstow was the only other player bar skipper Root to pass 30, while debuting Australia seamer Boland made another player brought back into the England side, Mark Wood, his first Test wicket when he trapped the tailender, batting as high as No 8, lbw.
Illingworth led England to an Ashes series win in Australia in 1970-71 but the chances of his fellow Yorkshireman, Root, following suit this winter look all-but over with his side demolished for less than 200 for the 12th time in Test matches in 2021 and facing a battle to avoid a record-equalling ninth Test defeat in a calendar year - Bangladesh having lost that many in 2003.
Root strode out at 13-2 - the 14th time in 27 Test innings in 2021 that he has come in inside the first 10 overs - and looked pretty unflappable before the break, putting on 48 from 115 balls with the more sedate Malan. But he then departed after the interval, leaving him 109 runs shy of breaking the record 1,788 runs Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf amassed in 2006, with the England captain now having one more innings in 2021 to try and top that total and, more importantly, help keep his side in The Ashes.
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