Three months ago, against India and Sri Lanka, England were totalling 500 for fun. Today they couldn't even manage triple figures. As the Wisden Wizard shows, England's 79 all out at the Gabba was their lowest total at Brisbane, and their lowest total in Australia for almost 99 years. It gets worse. It was also England's sixth-lowest postwar total, a figure to rank alongside that Curtly Ambrose-induced 46 at Trinidad in 1993-94, and that Basin Reserve-plumbing 64 in 1977-78, when New Zealand defeated England for the first time in 48 years of Test cricket.

The speed with which England capitulated was startling as well. Twenty-eight overs and two balls does not quite rival the 19.1 overs at Trinidad, but it is still their third-shortest postwar innings. Second place goes to Keith Fletcher's 1981-82 side, who needed just 26.2 overs to manage 102 against Kapil Dev and Madan Lal at Bombay.

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