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.

England’s Brydon Carse celebrates a key wicket with skipper Ben Stokes. Credit: AP

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 W

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