• Second Test, D3: England 334 & 134-6; Australia 511

• Tourists collapse under lights, still trailing by 43

Saturday night at the Gabba witnessed a collapse to rank among England’s most demoralising on Australian soil. In fact the entire third day could be filed under that category: three sessions of one-way traffic on Vulture Street that mean the Ashes urn is unlikely to change hands.

Even the word “unlikely” is a simple nod to the fact that in nearly 150 years of Test cricket a 2-0 deficit has been overcome once before; that it remains mathematically possible. But the way the first five days of this series have played out – the way Mitchell Starc has taken residence in English minds and painted the walls fuchsia pink – this is the stuff of fantasy.

• Second Test, D3: England 334 & 134-6; Australia 511

• Tourists collapse under lights, still trailing by 43

Saturday night at the Gabba witnessed a collapse to rank among England’s most demoralising on Australian soil. In fact the entire third day could be filed under that category: three sessions of one-way traffic on Vulture Street that mean the Ashes urn is unlikely to change hands.

Even the word “unlikely” is a simple nod to the fact that in nearly 150 years of Test cricket a 2-0 deficit has been overcome once before; that it remains mathematically possible. But the way the first five days of this series have played out – the way Mitchell Starc has taken residence in English minds and painted the walls fuchsia pink – this is the stuff of fantasy.

• Second Test, D3: England 334 & 134-6; Australia 511

• Tourists collapse under lights, still trailing by 43

Saturday night at the Gabba witnessed a collapse to rank among England’s most demoralising on Australian soil. In fact the entire third day could be filed under that category: three sessions of one-way traffic on Vulture Street that mean the Ashes urn is unlikely to change hands.

Even the word “unlikely” is a simple nod to the fact that in nearly 150 years of Test cricket a 2-0 deficit has been overcome once before; that it remains mathematically possible. But the way the first five days of this series have played out – the way Mitchell Starc has taken residence in English minds and painted the walls fuchsia pink – this is the stuff of fantasy.