With Stuart Broad rolling through the top order Australia looked in serious trouble on Day One at the Gabba, before a late stand from Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson righted the ship.
Stuart Broad leads his England teammates off the Gabba field in recognition of his five-wicket haul. Source: Getty Images
A PIG, a pram and rampaging Pom combined to steal Australia's bacon at the Gabba on Thursday
While Ashes villain Stuart Broad was scything through the Australian top order, a pig named Ash (as in Ashes) was being smuggled into the ground.
The intention of its owners, who had disguised it in a pram, was to let it loose on the ground.
Police media confirmed a man had been charged with animal cruelty over the bizarre incident.
It was a throwback to the 1982-83 Ashes Test at this ground where a pig brought to the ground by a group of vets, who anesthetised it and placed an apple in its mouth, was let loose.
It had "Beefy" (Ian Botham) scrawled on one side and "Eddie" (Hemmings) on the other, and when that duo were driving home from the ground Botham said to Hemmings: "C'mon mate ... put your trotter on it."
Amid the porky tales, Broad rejoiced in one of his finest cricketing days - and the fact his mother was nowhere in sight.
The chant of "Broad is a wanker" echoed around the Gabba as Broad came into bowl his first ball, and when David Warner pulled that ball for four it was if Australia had retained the Ashes.
But the 27-year-old fast bowler wasn't down for long.
Broad surged to take 5-65 on day one of the Ashes series to leave a groggy but far from defeated Australia on 8-273 at stumps.
He arrived at post-day press conference with a playful smirk and carrying a copy of the day's Courier-Mail, which had called on fans to follow Allan Border's advice and give Broad the silent treatment.
Australia suffer a collapse after lunch at the hands of Stuart Broad, the English paceman accounting for the first four wickets on the opening day at the Gabba.
The paper had decided on a "Broad ban" campaign to not mention the player by name throughout the Test, referring to him only as "the English medium-pacer."
"I've only just seen it - I thought it was a bit of fun," Broad said of the newspaper's front page.
It turned out that Border was right - Broad is a tiger best left unstirred.
But the crowd could not help themselves. And the more they stirred him, the more fun he had.
"I am pleased my mum wasn't in the stadium," he said later.
"To be honest I was singing along at one stage. It gets in your head and you find yourself singing at the end of your mark. I braced myself to expect it. I quite enjoyed it to be honest."
Stuart Broad is surrounded by jubiliant teammates after bowling Mitchell Johnson to stall Australia's fightback. Source: Getty Images
"There is something about Ashes cricket that brings the best out of me. There is a little bit more niggle there. It brings the best out of me."
Queensland fans who felt horribly Broad-sided during the Ashes series in winter were not about to tie their tongues and let the bloke who refused to walk at Trent Bridge off the hook.
It only served to poke the bear in the belly, and the bowler with no name struck back to be the star of the show.
The Courier-Mail's Broad campaign and it's ribbing of walking ego Kevin Pietersen stirred up emotions in Test week.
The England bowler's dad, former England opening batsman Chris Broad, tweeted our paper: "Come on The Courier-Mail in Brisbane, mention the star performer's name"
Stuart Broad brandishes the ball after claiming his fifth wicket in front of a hostile Gabba crowd. Source: AFP
Former London tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan, now a leading American talkback TV host, even tweeted a picture of The Courier-Mail's Broad-Ban front page.
The bottom line was this was a Broadside, especially for Australian skipper Michael Clarke, who has now been dismissed by the medium-pacer in six of his last eight completed Test innings against England.
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