Cricket/Ashes series: This is how the Australian newspapers recorded the second test . . .
Mike Coward - The Australian: England's ineptitude was staggering. Its cricket yesterday was as uneducated as it was unedifying and its defeat among the most humiliating in the annals of the game. This England team has neither the personnel nor the right mind-set for an Ashes campaign of such intensity. It defies belief it should be in such despair and effectively out of this series after just 10 days of cricket.
Greg Baum - The Age: One bad decision, the first of the match, against the England opener Andrew Strauss, prompted a constriction in team-mates' throats. Quickly, it became outright panic. Like medieval royals with syphilis, they went suddenly mad. England lost its last nine wickets for 60, the same England that made 551 for six declared in the first innings. In Brisbane, arguably, Australia caught England cold. But this was the win that re-established the natural order.
Robert Craddock - Brisbane Courier-Mail: Shane Warne made an entire England team freeze on a hot summer's day in Adelaide yesterday to all but guarantee Australia will snatch back the Ashes. Stage-struck England batted like turtles with chronic fatigue syndrome while the Australians were like light horsemen trying to stampede wounded opponents.
Geoff Lawson - Sydney Morning Herald: Ashley Giles, the pet of Duncan Fletcher, batted, bowled and fielded like a dizzy schoolboy. England would have regretted the omission of Panesar as soon as the coin hit the ground. It cost them big time.
Peter Lalor - The Australian: The heroine had taken some losses and endured many an indignity early in the piece, but had managed to survive the beast and find sanctuary. One down wasn't that bad, she thought. All I need to do is draw. There's hope. A heartbeat later the violins shrieked and an axe came crashing through the flimsy door. And there was Shane Warne, a wild look in the eye and a wicked gloating grin on his face. "Honey - I'm home!"
Steve Waugh - Adelaide Advertiser: Two sides turned up but only one believed it could win - the tone was set for the day. Perhaps England should have adopted a one-day mind-set and thrown caution to the wind or at least backed themselves.
