Sport

England will find themselves in trouble if they abandon Bazball now, with the team to double down on their aggressive tactics heading into Brisbane.

A bombshell double disqualification for McLaren has blown the Formula One driver’s championship wide open and moved reigning champion Max Verstappen into second.

The West Test reached a television audience of 5.8 million people across Australia, as the Perth pitch proved too hot for England to handle.

The Formula One driver’s championship remains a three-way shootout after Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but hopes of a first Australian champion since 1980 are fading fast.

After England capitulated to a defeat inside two days in Perth after being in a dominant position just hours earlier, their media has had their say — and one former captain has been particularly savage.

‘It’s difficult.’

The Wallabies have fallen to France, consigning Joe Schmidt's side to a dubious place in history as the first Australians to lose 10 Tests in a year.

A meme was born and the recriminations began, with a ‘has-been’ biting back hard.

MITCHELL JOHNSON: With the first Test on the line, Travis Head Bazballed the Bazballers and they didn’t have an answer.

The veteran has been exposed by his own teammate and there’s nowhere left to hide.

The four-time Australian Touring Car Champion and four-time Bathurst winner died surrounded by loved ones on Saturday.

Travis Head has scored one of the greatest Ashes centuries in the history of the rivalry to blast Australia to a Perth victory and a series lead in a head-spinning two-day Test. 

‘NASA doesn’t even launch this hard!’

Usman Khawaja played golf on Thursday and then battled back spasms a day later, but Cricket Australia's boss says linking the two things is drawing a long bow.

WATCH: Mitchell Starc continues to put the Aussies on his back in Perth, completing an epic return catch off his own bowling for yet another first-over wicket.