Perth: Brendon McCullum’s Bazballers can smell the fear in Australia’s dressing room after their five-prong pace cartel inflicted physical and psychological trauma on the hosts on a frenetic first day of the Ashes.

Twelve years after Mitchell Johnson terrorised an ageing England team, Australia’s band of veterans are facing a similarly frightful ordeal against one of the fastest pace battalions the old enemy has sent to these shores in decades.

Former England captain Michael Vaughan even called for Australia to send Mitchell Marsh an Ashes SOS after the home side crumbled under a fierce onslaught.

Ben Stokes bagged five wickets, capitalising on the brutality of Jofra Archer, who, along with Mark Wood, broke through the 150 km/h barrier. England’s average speed of 141 km/h is the high

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