Final Ashes Tests, especially when the series has long been lost, have a tendency to produce the unusual. And this one did not disappoint.
Marnus Labuschagne might be the world's top ranked Test batsman, but he still discovered the sport's ability to make a fool of even its most accomplished performers in Hobart when - having made 44 largely fluent runs - he prepared to face up to Stuart Broad.
Labuschagne's trigger brought his front foot across his stumps, looking for the overpitched delivery to tuck around his legs, but he overbalanced - spectacularly.
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Down he toppled, with his middle stump following soon after. As Broad launched into his trademark spread-eagled celebration, wheeling away from the pitch, Labuschagne lay similarly sprawled but across the turf before dragging himself from the ground.