On any other day Mitchell Starc would have been the lone shining star.

A wicket in the first over of an Ashes series , again. A career-best 7 for 58 to destroy England , again. His second career-best figures in as many Test bowling innings. His 100th wicket in Ashes cricket . Two stunning deliveries to remove Test cricket's second-highest scorer for a seven-ball duck and England's talismanic captain for just 6. His 17th Test five-for, his fifth against England to bowl the visitors out for 172 in 32.5 frantic overs after they had elected to bat.

But when he stood in front of the media at 6.20pm local time, his bowling performance felt like it took place a week ago after an Ashes record 19 wickets had fallen . He was instead left to lament a carbon copy collapse to the one Austra

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