Bad for cricket, good for headline writers

Australia may have capitulated in The Ashes last night. The good news is the media hasn’t lost its mind about it.

Oh wait…

The good news for the Sydney Morning Herald was the collapse happened quickly enough to meet their much-maligned early deadlines for print:

Fortunately you can always rely on News Corp’s The Courier Mail for some much needed perspective:

Perhaps more disturbing than the cricket for Aussies is Today Show host Karl Stefanovic stripping off for a nudie run around the studio after proclaiming on Twitter he would if skipper Michael Clark failed to make a century.