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With Steve Smith missing, the hosts shifted the Ashes pack and came up trumps amid all the discombobulation Chalk it up to fates or fortune or a quirk of probability, whatever your inclination. If Australia’s first day of the Adelaide Test was a jigsaw puzzle hurled into the air, most of the pieces landed face up in the right place. It has been a pattern for Australia in this Ashes series: monste…