Another day, another Ashes batting collapse - but, as consolation for Australian supporters still reeling at their series defeat, this time their team was on the right side of it.
England's hopes of winning four Tests in a home series for the first time are in tatters after day two at the Oval, because of their calamitous start in pursuit of Australia's first innings of 481.
The two players recalled by Australia, Peter Siddle (2-18) and Mitch Marsh (3-18), played a major role in England collapsing from 1-46 to 8-92.
Nathan Lyon (2-32) also entrenched his status as Australia's most consistent bowler for the series with two wickets, one of them a superb delivery that bowled opener Alastair Cook. 
That England's first innings was still going at the end of day two was helped by the second instance of the day where a wicket was overturned because the bowler overstepped the crease. Steve Finn's no-ball saved Steve Smith on 92, while Mark Wood got a reprieve on four when Marsh's foot was well over.
England made a rollicking start to their first innings. While Australia did not score their first boundary until the 15th over England scored five in their first 25 deliveries.
While Cook was the first batsman to go, just before tea, the dismissal of Adam Lyth was a bigger factor in England's demise.
The left-hander has been so poor in the series - he averaged 12.29 across the four Tests - it is likely he would have been dropped had his team not been in the ascendancy.
Siddle entered the attack in the 13th over. His second delivery was an inviting short ball that Lyth lobbed to Mitch Starc at mid-on for 19.
There was nothing fortuitous about Siddle's next wicket. Ian Bell tried to defend a good-length ball angled into him but was felled as the ball seamed away from his outside edge and clipped his off bail.
Joe Root's downfall came courtesy of Marsh, via a tiny nick.
Lyth was not the only England batsman to depart to an awful shot. Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes both fell to rash pull shots: Bairstow for 13 as he steered a catch off Mitchell Johnson straight to Lyon at deep square-leg, Stokes for 15 as top-edging the first delivery of Marsh's second spell.
Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler fell between them, bowled by Lyon for one. When Stuart Broad departed for a four-ball duck, caught by Adam Voges at first slip off Johnson, it left only Wood to support Moeen Ali. The latter was welcomed by a Johnson bouncer that hit him in the helmet. Understandably, he focused on survival rather than scoring.
The day began with Australia resuming at 3-287, Smith and Voges unruffled as they began the session.
Losing four wickets in the second half of the session - Voges for 76 and Marsh, Peter Nevill and Johnson for a combined 21 runs - undermined their strong position.
Smith's reprieve, on 92, came from a delivery that involved putrid actions from bowler, batsman and umpire. The first example was Finn's short and wide delivery. The second was Smith's inexplicable waft that saw him caught behind. The third was the replay that showed Finn had dramatically overstepped. The fourth was that Dharmasena had failed to spot such an egregious no-ball.
Dharmasena performed even worse later in the day, failing to spot any of Johnson's eight no-balls in a three-over spell.
Smith went on to reach his century, from 197 deliveries, shortly before lunch.
The ability of Australia to go from 7-376 at lunch to be all out for 481 in the second session was largely down to Mitchell Starc. The fast bowler made 58 from 52 deliveries to dominate the scoring in the 91-run partnership with Smith, who was bowled by Finn for 143. It was Starc's sixth Test score over 50.


AUSTRALIA: 1st innings
                                        R M B 4s 6s
C Rogers c Cook b Wood  43 151 100 7 0
D Warner c Lyth b Ali   85 206 131 11 0
S Smith b Finn    143 389 252 17 2
M Clarke c Buttler b Stokes  15 42 29 1 0
A Voges lbw Stokes   76 171 130 12 0
M Marsh c Bell b Finn   3 22 13 0 0
P Nevill c Buttler b Ali   18 29 27 3 0
M Johnson b Ali           0 2 2 0 0
M Starc lbw Stokes   58 69 52 9 1
P Siddle c Lyth b Finn   1 19 9 0 0
N Lyon not out    5 9 9 1 0
Sundries (1b 24lb 6w 3nb) 34
TOTAL     481
FALL: 110 (Rogers), 161 (Warner), 186 (Clarke), 332 (Voges), 343 (Marsh), 376 (Nevill), 376 (Johnson), 467 (Smith), 475 (Starc), 481 (Siddle).
BOWLING: S Broad 20-4-59-0 (1nb), M Wood 26-9-59-1 (2w), B Stokes 29-6-133-3 (3w/4), S Finn 29.1-7-90-3 (2nb), M Ali 18-1-102-3, J Root 3-0-13-0.
BATTING TIME: 562 mins. OVERS: 125.1.
ENGLAND: 1st innings   R M B 4s 6s
A Lyth c Starc b Siddle   19 51 42 4 0
A Cook b Lyon    22 30 21 4 0
I Bell b Siddle    10 69 42 1 0
J Root c Nevill b Marsh   6 56 39 1 0
J Bairstow c Lyon b Johnson  13 26 15 1 0
B Stokes c Nevill b Marsh  15 41 25 2 0
J Buttler b Lyon    1 4 3 0 0
M Ali not out            8 47 36 1 0
S Broad c Voges b Marsh      0 3 4 0 0
M Wood not out                 8 23 14 2 0
Sundries (1b, 3lb, 1nb)         5
TOTAL (for eight wickets)     107
FALL: 30 (Cook), 46 (Lyth), 60 (Bell), 64 (Root), 83 (Bairstow), 84 (Buttler), 92 (Stokes), 92 (Broad).
BOWLING: M Starc 6-2-14-0, M Johnson 8-4-21-1, N Lyon 9-2-32-2, P Siddle 10-4-18-2, M Marsh 7-2-18-3 (1nb).
BATTING TIME: 182 mins. OVERS: 40.
STUMPS, day two