Cummins is finally given a taste of his own medicine

ON the day they buckled under Bazball's irresistible onslaught, the evidence was compelling

- Mike Walters

For the first time in this Ashes series, Australia looked as bewildered, dishevelled and listing as their old cultural attache Sir Les Patterson.

As England sensed a chance to blow the doors off at Old Trafford, visiting captain Pat Cummins suffered the kind of chastening for which comic genius Barry Humphries' glorious larrikin often found an eye-watering punchline.

Before the toss at Old Trafford, much of the talk was of England's 'Dad's Army' pace attack, with 145 years and 425 Test caps on the clock between them.

But as Corporal Jones, from the original Home Guard in Walmington-on-Sea, would have said of the Aussies: They don't like it up 'em.