England today crashed to their most humiliating defeat of a miserable tour Down Under after capitulating for a sorry 110.
They chose Australia Day to nosedive to their lowest ebb of the three-month trip, dismissed in just 34.3 overs, and barely stretching the contest into the second half.
Australia were almost halfway to their target, at 54 for one, by the interval and finished the most one-sided encounter between the sides this winter before the floodlights took effect.
The end came in the 25th over when Australia captain Ricky Ponting pulled for four off the recalled Hampshire seamer Chris Tremlett's first ball.
He got to his half-century with another cross-bat shot for two a couple of balls later.
England's solitary success was a result of a mix-up between Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden which saw the former run out.
The earlier collapse followed a similarly woeful display with the bat against New Zealand on the same surface on Tuesday when Andrew Flintoff's men were bundled out for 120.
It was an astonishing collapse, after Flintoff won the toss, with the top half-a-dozen batsmen all out trying to force shots.
They lost their final eight wickets for a paltry 38 runs inside 19 overs - against an attack lacking rested duo Glenn McGrath and Nathan Bracken.
In the build-up to the match, England coach Duncan Fletcher confessed opener Andrew Strauss would have been taken out of the firing line if alternatives were available.
However, the Middlesex left-hander took his tally to 94 runs in five Commonwealth Bank Series innings when he fell for 17, trying to run the ball to third man but only succeeding in providing wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist with his second dismissal of the innings, off Mitchell Johnson.
By that time opening partner Mal Loye, who began in spectacular fashion when he slog-swept Johnson out of the ground, had perished chasing a delivery which would have been called wide from Brett Lee.
Without rib-injury victim Kevin Pietersen, England lack aggressors but positive intent from Ian Bell - including a six over long-off from the off-spin of Andrew Symonds - concluded when he cut a short ball from Stuart Clark straight to point.
Bell's 35 was more than double the score than that of a team-mate - but his departure began the hasty demise.
Ed Joyce, top scorer in the 90-run defeat to New Zealand on the same strip on Tuesday, began fluently with two boundaries but a misjudged pull doubled Lee's wicket tally.
Australia could barely believe what was going on, judging by the bemused expression on Symonds' face when Paul Collingwood drove tamely to mid-off.
At that stage there were still almost 30 overs left and Flintoff and Jamie Dalrymple were faced with the task of occupying the crease.
Yet Flintoff guided a full ball to opposite number Ricky Ponting, stationed at a wide slip, having earlier edged a four through the cordon, and Mitchell Johnson took his haul to four wickets by prising out Dalrymple and Liam Plunkett, playing his first international of the tour.
Dalrymple was the first batsman to be prised out by a bowler, edging one which left him, while Plunkett was shaken up by some steep bounce.
It was left to left-arm spinner Brad Hogg - who only finished playing a one-day match for Western Australia in Brisbane at 11pm last night - to finish the innings off.
Two edges, one to slip from Tremlett's prod forward, the other a leading one from an attempted turn to leg by Paul Nixon, gave Hogg figures of two for 16.
England, opting not to exert James Anderson (back) and Jon Lewis (ankle), employed a new-ball attack of Plunkett and Tremlett.
After a quiet opening Gilchrist cut loose to smash four fours in one Plunkett over.
And it took a run-out to initiate a breakthrough as Flintoff half-stopped a Gilchrist drive in his follow-through, Plunkett seized on the ball at mid-off and threw to wicketkeeper Nixon with both batsmen at the bowler's end.
In keeping with the shoddy display, Collingwood dropped Ponting, on 13, at slip, off Monty Panesar's left-arm spin moments before the break while misfields and overthrows were also prevalent.
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