Writing in The Telegraph Scyld Berry said:
"The third day of this third Test arguably surpassed the last day of the Adelaide Test in 2006-7 as England's most demoralising this century - since the advent of the national academy, central contracts, Duncan Fletcher, and methodical planning.
In the article Paul Newman went on: "It doesn’t get much worse than this. It was the day when the wheels flew off, an embarrassing day of almost total English humiliation.
The headline of the Daily Mail summed it up: "The most diabolical day of this torrid tour as shambolic England collapse."
Ouch! Chins Up chaps...we'll look after them ashes for ya