‘The real Australia have arrived’: Michael Vaughan and Michael Atherton laud Pat Cummins for silencing ‘Bazball’

“That is the Australian team I have known for all of the time I have been watching Test cricket,” Vaughan said on the BBC.

“There has been help with the conditions, and the ball started to move, but it is just the mindset,” Vaughan said.

“Australia have said to the batters ‘we are here to get you out, not just spread the fields and let you knock it around’.”

Atherton praised Cummins for identifying Australia’s biggest chance and taking it with both hands.

“The beauty of the game is that you have to adapt accordingly as the conditions change and Pat Cummins was very quick there, he recognised it,” he said.

“He obviously got the ball in his hands and he could sense it. Suddenly, in comes the field, in come the catchers and it is a very different game.”

England earlier ran through the Australia tail after the visitors had resumed on 311-5.

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England seamers Stuart Broad (3/68) and Ollie Robinson (3/55) bounced their way through the lower order. At 338-5, Australia had looked like taking a useful first-innings lead but Robinson claimed the key wicket of Usman Khawaja and only Cummins provided more resistance.