A nightmare in Nottingham as a Broadside embarrasses Australia Jesse Hogan Nottingham A dejected Michael Clarke heads to the pavilion as Stuart Broad is mobbed in the background.
ct online On web, tablet andmobile If you want to be even more depressed, find out how far behind Australia is in our stumps wrap at canberratimes.com.au Australia came into the Trent Bridge Test needing to produce one of its best Ashes performances to save the series. Instead it succumbed to one of the most abysmal starts in Test history, bowled out for just 60 before lunch on the first day. 
While pitch and weather conditions were helpful for fast-bowling, it was unfathomable, even given its capitulation last week at Edgbaston, that Australia could be bowled out in just 18.3 overs, the shortest first innings of a match in Test history. The biggest runs contributor for Australia was -- humiliatingly -- extras: 14.
In the first 37 balls of the match Australia lost all six of its specialist batsmen amid an onslaught that saw acting England lead paceman Stuart Broad snare 5-6 within his first overs with the new ball. He finished with 8-15 in front of his home crowd. Only twice in Test history has any bowler taken eight wickets for fewer runs.
After the first ball of Broad's third over, and the fifth of the match, Australia were at a calamitous 5-23. It raised memories of Cape Town in late 2011, when Australia were stricken at 5-18 on the way to being bowled out for 47 by South Africa. Australia flirted with a lower total here and only managed to avoid it when Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon dug in for a last-wicket stand of 13.
The only specialist batsman to survive the carnage was captain Michael Clarke, but only after he came close to being dismissed from his first two scoring deliveries, almost playing on to his stumps and then almost caught from a top- edged hook.
Clarke was helped by exclusively facing Mark Wood for his first 14 deliveries. When he finally faced Broad, he attempted to assert his authority over him with from his first delivery but produced only a loose attempt at driving that gave an edge that was gratefully accepted by his England counterpart, Alastair Cook.
That he was the only top-six batsman to reach double-figures might be deserving of qualified praise in the circumstances, if not for the way he departed.
Only four times in Australia's Test history has it lost its top six more cheaply than it did in Nottingham.
One was in Cape Town, the other three were in the 19th century. Shaun Marsh was included at the expense of his brother Mitch but fell for a duck.