MELBOURNE, Dec 27 (Reuters) - It was a ‌relieved Ben Stokes bidding good riddance to more than a decade of pain for English cricket in Australia on Saturday as ‌his team rallied from the depths to complete a drought-breaking test win in Melbourne.

Under fire after losing the first ‌three Ashes tests, and amid reports of players treating a mid-tour break in Noosa as a hard-drinking "stag do", there seemed little prospect of England turning things around at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.