MELBOURNE, Australia -- Spin wizard Shane Warne took the first hat trick of his Test career Thursday as Australia romped to a 295-run victory over England in the second Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.


England crumpled from 79 for four, humiliatingly losing its last six second innings wickets for the addition of just 13 runs in 55 minutes to be all out for 92.


Australia now holds a 2-0 lead in the five-Test Ashes series.


With the score on 91 for six, Warne's fourth ball of the over trapped DeFreitas leg before wicket and Gough edged his fifth ball to wicketkeeper Ian Healy.


After a delay of three minutes as Malcolm walked slowly to the wicket, Warne found the fast bowler's glove with a full-length ball and leapt with joy as David Boon took a fine catch, diving low to his right.


Warne was immediately swamped by his teammates after recording the first hat trick in an Ashes test since compatriot and fellow spinner Hugh Trumble achieved the feat in the Melbourne test of 1903-04 season.


"It was a fantastic moment," Warne said afterward. "I've never run as fast as that in my life, but I wanted to get to Boonie to congratulate and thank him."


Fast bowler Craig McDermott, the man of the match, was equally destructive, taking five for 42 in the second innings and fittingly wrapped up the match by removing spinner Phil Tufnell.


Resuming on 79 for four, England faced a winning target of 388 but a more realistic challenge of batting for 90 overs to save the test.


When Gatting edged the second ball of the day to Australia captain Mark Taylor at slip, the outcome was assured although the speed and meekness of England's collapse stunned spectators.


The outcome was a severe blow for England captain Mike Atherton, whose bold decision to put Australia into bat on the first day backfired badly.


"As it turned out it was the wrong decision, because we lost," said Atherton, who faces the monumental task of raising his side's morale before the third test, which begins in Sydney on Sunday.


After struggling early on the opening day, Australia made 279 in their first innings and gradually took command of the match from that point.


England's reply of 212 left the tourists 67 in arrears on first innings, an advantage which Australia extended by scoring 320 for seven before Taylor declared at tea Wednesday.


England's dismal batting compared unfavorably with the determined, patient innings of 131 by Australia's David Boon, which set up the declaration.


After England's latest humiliating loss in Australia, former fast bowler "Fiery" Fred Trueman on Thursday blasted cricket officialdom back home.


The first bowler to take 300 wickets in Tests said England would continue to lose so long as it had its old-fashioned hierarchy at county level.


"I'm going to upset a few people, but you have committees up and down the country who don't know what the game is about," the former Yorkshire paceman told the British Broadcasting Corporation.


"We have allowed players with great ability, great knowledge of the game to wander into the wilderness because we have not been willing to pay to keep their cricketing brains within the structure.


Trueman also said that England captain Mike Atherton was to inexperienced for the job. "Mike is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet," he said. "But he was never even captain of his county, Lancashire.''


Bookmakers William Hill make England a 150-1 chance to win the Ashes after Thursday's result. The home side is rated a 9-4 chance to clean-sweep the series 5-0. (Reuters, AP)