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00:00Yes, Hilton House to Strats. Here we go.
00:07Well, just looking at the field, I'd say a standard sort of field.
00:10Not an overly aggressive one from Ponting.
00:15Out! Out! Good ball!
00:17Straight to Hussey in the gully.
00:19Just the start, Australia wanted.
00:23That is enormous.
00:25He thought he had a ball to cut.
00:27He thought he could find a boundary early.
00:29The trappings of opening against the new cherry.
00:32It wasn't the best delivery,
00:34but sometimes it's about getting on top of your nerves.
00:37And I'm not sure Strauss was able to do so.
00:40Well, I don't know if it was nerves or not,
00:42but there was extra bounce there for Hilton House.
00:45And Strauss didn't get over the top.
00:48It's one of his favourite shots.
00:50And Ponting has got the field set well.
00:52Three slips and the gully.
00:54And first blood to Australia.
00:56The England captain gone for a gotter.
01:01There's an inch.
01:02That'll be the first run.
01:03It'll be a boundary.
01:08Got it away.
01:10Beautifully.
01:11There's a fine flat, right?
01:12Very strong on the onside.
01:14Here's Watson.
01:15Two slips a gully.
01:16A couple of men on the drive.
01:17Oh!
01:18Lovely timing from Jonathan Trott.
01:21Mark Taylor and Ian Chappell are with me.
01:25Bored in!
01:27Shane Watson does the job!
01:32That is an important strike.
01:33Just as England looked a little more subtle, too.
01:35Terrific bowling from Shane Watson.
01:36He got it full.
01:37Got the length right.
01:38It was almost a half volley.
01:39But he got it up there to trot.
01:40He looks so much more comfortable on the back foot.
01:41Up it goes.
01:42Comes back just enough off the seam.
01:43And there's no better feeling for a bowler than hitting the stumps.
01:45What a wicket for Watson.
01:46Big one for Australia.
01:47England two for 41.
01:48Oh, what a stroke.
01:49That really does exaggerate Ian Chappell's point.
01:51So if Australia is a good shot, he's got the length right.
01:54He's got the length right.
01:55It was almost a half volley.
01:56But he got it up there to trot.
01:57He looks so much more comfortable on the back foot.
01:58Up it goes.
01:59Comes back just enough off the seam.
02:00And there's no better feeling for a bowler than hitting the stumps.
02:01What a wicket for Watson.
02:02Big one for Australia.
02:03England two for 41.
02:04What a stroke.
02:07That really does exaggerate Ian Chappell's point.
02:14So if Australia continue to bowl that length, Cook will just feed off it.
02:21Great stroke.
02:22Thunderous stroke.
02:24From a lifted man.
02:27England's probably the more settled squad, you'd have to say, running into this first test
02:31match.
02:32And there's a cut shot.
02:33He's gone!
02:34No!
02:35Went down!
02:36I thought he'd taken it.
02:37It was Doherty.
02:38He's a quality fieldsman.
02:40He juggled it for a while and then just couldn't hang onto it.
02:43Well, it was cracked by Cook.
02:45Definitely.
02:46He was there to play.
02:47He just was a little late on it.
02:49That's why it went in the air and Doherty fingertips.
02:51Then the second one.
02:52I'm still a chance.
02:53Can't get the body round.
02:55Contortionist.
02:56Couldn't get there.
02:57He's being assertive.
02:59He really is trying to get the upper hand here.
03:02Doherty.
03:03A little bit of aggression.
03:04Should have thrown it.
03:06Oh!
03:07This time he throws it.
03:10This time he throws it.
03:12Not accurately either.
03:15It's two for 79 after 25 overs.
03:20It's a pull shot this time.
03:22Beautifully worked into the gap at mid wicket.
03:25So Cook has enjoyed lunch.
03:27The Australians don't enjoy that.
03:29Again it's worked squarer this time.
03:34There were two men back.
03:35Hilfenhouse was fine.
03:37And the other square.
03:38But four's the result.
03:4028 overs gone.
03:41Two for 98.
03:42Well that one's full toss.
03:47Peterson ready for it.
03:49Save your legs.
03:51It's four.
03:5333 overs.
03:54Two for 107.
03:55Peterson.
03:56Taking a short ball from Mitchell Johnson.
03:58He's been very composed and organised.
04:01Front foot, back foot.
04:03Now pull shots.
04:04We've seen him play the hook shot pretty well from Mitchell Johnson.
04:08On that occasion the pull shot.
04:10More in front of square leg.
04:12Mid wicket.
04:14That's a good place to try and pull the left hand.
04:19You don't want to be trying to pull it too square.
04:23He does and he's punished to glorious cover drive.
04:26That'll go all the way.
04:28That's the over bowl.
04:3036 gone.
04:31That's two for 117.
04:33Yes he is.
04:34Beautifully caught.
04:35Peter Siddle gets the big wickets.
04:36He gets Peterson just at the right time for Australia.
04:383,400 and 17.
04:39The Victorians are on top once again.
04:40Oh that's wonderful bowling.
04:41They've got him forward.
04:42They've got him driving.
04:43That's what they've been aiming to do there.
04:44Just look at this delivery from Siddle.
04:45Don't think it moved that much.
04:46A little bit of movement perhaps off the seam.
04:48The big thing was it was full and there's no doubt that Peterson wanted four through the covers.
05:05Yeah and didn't it mean a lot to the Australian cricket team too.
05:10You can see how pumped they were about that.
05:12Kevin Peterson was looking ominous.
05:14It was a good catch from Ricky Ponting.
05:16Kevin Peterson was looking dangerous, but he's gone for 43.
05:19England lose their third wicket.
05:23Throve beautifully half-bowling.
05:25Collingwood's away.
05:27It was a gifted Yorker.
05:28Watching too much leg side and beautifully timed.
05:31Working like player.
05:32Doesn't do too much flashy stuff.
05:35Leaves that to the other guys.
05:37Does his job in the side really, really well.
05:40Gone!
05:41Yes, he is!
05:42Sidder's got two.
05:43Well done.
05:44Good captain.
05:45Third slip in.
05:46And all of a sudden it's four for 1-2-5.
05:48Oh boy, you get one and all of a sudden you get two.
05:51And the Aussies now have a look at the celebration.
05:55They've managed now to get rid of Collingwood for four north into the action on that occasion.
06:02Good field placing as well by the captain.
06:04An extra slip in there.
06:06Yeah, exactly right.
06:07And this is what Australia from four years ago were talking about it, about that.
06:10Just a good length that he first gets in.
06:12He pushes at the ball.
06:13Stuart Clarke gave him some nightmares last trip.
06:16Once again.
06:18Picks it to Marcus North.
06:19Good catch.
06:21It's a poor start of Paul Collingwood.
06:22If he gets in, it can be dangerous.
06:25Australia now on a bit of a roll.
06:27425, England.
06:31Here's Siddle.
06:31Oh, it's close as well.
06:34Has he got him?
06:35Oh, Siddle's pleading to the umpire.
06:38Knows the call.
06:39He has to have hit it.
06:41And the people around the bat must know that.
06:43And that's why they haven't gone for a decision review.
06:47Yep.
06:48Inside edge.
06:49That's it.
06:52Well, that's a crashing stroke.
06:54He jumped on it.
06:55It was just too short.
06:56Not much short.
07:01Oh, that's lucky.
07:05That's lucky.
07:06He was pushing hard at that.
07:07I think that's basically what Watson's been bowling for.
07:10Get a little bit of a hint of swing in.
07:12And then every now and again get one to go straight on.
07:15And he certainly had Cook reaching for this one.
07:17Just watch him.
07:19Oh, and there he goes.
07:20And it's wide into the gap.
07:23Around about fourth slip area, I'd say.
07:28Got him.
07:29Got him at first slip.
07:31Peter Siddle's looked the best of the Aussies.
07:33And that's why.
07:34He's got more balls in the right spot.
07:37And finds the edge again.
07:38This time he's got Cook.
07:42They've drawn Alistair Cook into that area that he hates to go.
07:45If he has to go forward and across to the ball,
07:48it's when he's just a bit vulnerable, reaching for it.
07:51His hands give that away.
07:54It stays in those hands.
07:56Shane Watson is the man at slip.
07:58Peter Siddle is the man who's having a good day at the gather.
08:04Really brave effort, that, from Cook when it was so desperately needed by England.
08:0860-70, made it, 5 for 197.
08:10Goes after the bowlers.
08:12This will be good fun to watch.
08:13Pryor gone for a globe.
08:17First rock.
08:18England, 6 for 197.
08:22And Peter Siddle is on the hat-trick.
08:24Also on his birthday.
08:2526 today, Siddle.
08:27Will he celebrate it with a hat-trick?
08:29Here we go.
08:29There's, what, four slips?
08:31Well, almost five slips.
08:32What about one around the corner?
08:34Back pad or something like that?
08:36I'm backing him.
08:37Get ready to yell, happy birthday, Tubbs.
08:39Get ready, loosen those vocals up, Tubbs.
08:42Here it comes.
08:44Here we go.
08:45Crowd cheers.
08:46Here's Siddle.
08:48Oh, a bowl is close.
08:50He's given him.
08:51He's given him.
08:52Peter Siddle's got a hat-trick on his birthday.
08:55Not yet he hasn't.
08:55You little beauty.
08:56Not yet he hasn't.
08:58Not yet he hasn't.
08:59Because England will challenge that.
09:01They almost have to challenge it.
09:04Given the situation of the match.
09:05They have to challenge it.
09:08It's too big.
09:09So not yet, Tubbs.
09:10Settle down, boy.
09:12No, it's out.
09:13Happy birthday.
09:14Here we go.
09:15He's gone.
09:16It's got to be out, this.
09:17I reckon this is going to be out.
09:19I don't think that's missing leg.
09:20It's him on the full.
09:20If it's him on the full anyway, it's irrelevant.
09:23Because the umpire must assume the path of the ball continues.
09:26Original decision out.
09:28Forget that 40 centimetres.
09:30That won't bother the umpire here.
09:31The crowd likes what it sees.
09:35Eagle Eye is up on the big screen.
09:37Now we're getting through to the umpire out in the middle.
09:39Third umpire, Tony Hill from New Zealand.
09:41Says to Alinda.
09:43Oh, it is well.
09:45Peter Siddle.
09:46You have a birthday, hat-trick.
09:49Oh, Peter Siddle.
09:51Happy birthday.
09:5126 today.
09:53He's also got a five-wicket haul to go with it.
09:56What a day he's having.
09:57All of a sudden, four for 197 has become seven for 197.
10:04England in trouble.
10:05Siddle on fire.
10:06Well, he might have rushed to get out there and took his time.
10:08And he's taking a long time to get off now.
10:11That's an interesting couple of minutes for Stuart Broad.
10:13He rushed out there, took his time.
10:14Got hit on the toe.
10:16Walks back with daddles the duck.
10:18Take your pads off and watch Graham Swan walk out.
10:22Once again, we've got three slips.
10:24A fifth slip.
10:24A gully.
10:25A back pad.
10:26Here's Siddle.
10:27Can he get four in a row?
10:28Surely not.
10:30Oh, well bowled.
10:31Well bowled, Peter Siddle.
10:32Well played, Graham Swan.
10:35A triple-wicket maiden to the birthday boy.
10:42Flicked away by Bell.
10:44That could well be 50.
10:46And it will be 50.
10:49Good touch, Ian Bell.
10:51England will fight right to the end in this first inning.
10:54Don't worry about that.
10:55Oh, that's gone too.
10:57Oh, that's gone too.
11:01Just what the Australians need.
11:03The dangerous partnership to Brogan.
11:05Well, that was pretty ambitious.
11:08Graham Swan looked like he was trying to hit that through mid-wicket rather than straight
11:13down the ground.
11:14He's chatting with his partner, but I don't think there's much point in going for a referral
11:20unless he's got an inside edge.
11:22It looked absolutely plumb.
11:24The umpire's querying him.
11:25What are you going to do?
11:27And he's going to refer it.
11:29Good luck.
11:29I think the second one's down the train.
11:31So did he nick it?
11:33Hotspot comes into play.
11:35No.
11:35Nothing on the bat there.
11:37So on the pad.
11:38And just looking at that, I don't think he got outside the line either.
11:41No, it's hit him on just outside middle.
11:44It's all over.
11:46That's not saying a lot about Jimmy Anderson's batting.
11:49They've just thrown away a decision, a reversal decision in desperation.
11:53They've still got two batsmen to come that they could be used on.
11:57That's an extremely wasteful use of that system.
12:02Siddle.
12:03Another.
12:04But hasn't he warmed to the task?
12:09He was.
12:10The number three quick.
12:12When he left the game.
12:13That's it.
12:13And almost caught.
12:15Could have been seven.
12:18That was dropped.
12:19And it'll be a very disappointed Haddon because he should have caught that.
12:24He had it covered all the way.
12:25Got a full glove to it and put it down.
12:30Once again, that length is spot on.
12:34It's overpitched that time and Bell easily gets it down the ground.
12:39He's in exquisite touch.
12:42Save your legs.
12:45He's gone, he's gone long.
12:47He's gone high.
12:48That's a big one.
12:50He's in tremendous forming in Bell.
12:52How good's this footwork?
12:54Just a little skip, that's all.
12:57With utter certainty as well.
13:00He knows where he's aiming this ball.
13:03And he executes it perfectly.
13:05There he goes.
13:08Overcover, there's a man out there.
13:09Will we get there, will he?
13:11Yes, he does.
13:12It's Watson.
13:13The end of Bell.
13:14And for Doherty, his first wicket at the test level.
13:17Well, that is a moment that one fellow, in fact, most of us, I think, will never forget.
13:25The joy on Xavier Doherty's face.
13:28Despair from Ian Bell.
13:30He's perished in honour of his team here.
13:32He could easily have played this in a very different way.
13:36Desperate to find runs just to get England somewhere near something for his bowlers to bowl to.
13:42Excellent cricket from Doherty, safely taken by Shane Watson.
13:46There you go.
13:47I have a test match wicket.
13:49He certainly does.
13:51He was delighted.
13:53And that's a fantastic innings as well.
13:57Yeah!
13:58Got it.
13:59He's gone.
14:00Wilding knocked him over.
14:02All right for 260.
14:03Two wickets for Doherty.
14:06Tremendous day for Australia.
14:09Xavier Daly-Ondervoo gets two to the screen.
14:12Tina Siddles day on his 26th birthday.
14:24Here we go.
14:25Straight through to the keeper.
14:26Changing the commentary.
14:27Mark Taylor.
14:28Shane Warne and Ian Healy.
14:32Oh, Watson's away.
14:34Half volley.
14:35Off the mark.
14:36What a way to start to Rash's campaign.
14:41Oh, thank you.
14:43Thank you very much.
14:44Short.
14:45Touched away by Kadic.
14:47All the way to the boundary.
14:51Down.
14:52Now to the offside.
14:53And Shane Watson wants a piece of him.
15:01Oh, the first boundary of the morning.
15:09There's a noise down here, I'll tell you.
15:11A serious noise down here.
15:13There's an example of why you mustn't bowl too short.
15:15Oh, oh, I had that missed the work at it.
15:20It was all happening there.
15:21Attempted bouncer.
15:22Good line.
15:23Watson in trouble.
15:24Ball going onto the stumps.
15:25A magnificent bouncer.
15:29Watson had no idea.
15:30His chin went up.
15:32His gloves went up.
15:33The ball could have gone absolutely anywhere.
15:36As it turned out, it nearly bounced back down onto his stumps.
15:39Look at it.
15:39Look at this.
15:40Whoops.
15:40Hits his arm.
15:41Comes down behind him.
15:42And spins past the off-stump as he kicks it away.
15:48Oh, shot.
15:49Glorious on drive.
15:52It's a curb stroke.
15:54How about this for a shot?
15:55Look at the balance of Shane Watson.
15:57It's the small step.
15:58Didn't overcommit.
15:59Didn't try and overhit it.
16:01Just a beautiful shot.
16:06There you go.
16:06That's a sweet example of what I was saying.
16:13Another massive crowd in at the Gabba.
16:16Oh, good shout.
16:17LBW.
16:18Sholly LBW.
16:19Yes.
16:21The dreaded finger goes to the sky.
16:25England have a breakthrough.
16:27Well, he's a moving target is Simon Caddickson.
16:30Not even he knows where his stumps were and how that felt.
16:32It didn't feel very good to him in saying it might be worth having an appeal here.
16:36Or should I just walk?
16:38Watson's at the non-strikers end and says,
16:41I'll back you.
16:42I wasn't even sure where you got hit.
16:45If he hasn't edged it.
16:51It's hit a bit higher than what I thought.
16:53Well, it's high on the pad.
16:54Definitely.
16:55Well above the knee roll.
16:56How big are the pads?
16:57That's what an umpire's got to be aware of.
16:59Is he wearing small pads?
17:00We talked about Kevin Peterson's being huge yesterday.
17:03This is high.
17:04But how small are the pads?
17:08Yeah.
17:08And how bent is the knee?
17:10So what do we get in the wickets?
17:12That's the one that's going to matter.
17:14Missing.
17:14Too high.
17:16Caddickson's done the right thing.
17:17What a moment for Australia.
17:21Original decision was given out.
17:25But Eagle Eye reckons that the ball is missing the stumps.
17:29Now, I wonder if England might ask here.
17:38I think they are right too.
17:42I think it's important enough for them to get the breakthrough here.
17:47Pitching doesn't matter.
17:49Impact in line.
17:49That's fine.
17:50Wickets umpire's call.
17:51It might have glanced the stump.
17:53But it's going to go with Billy Dockdrove.
17:54He's got one right.
17:56As far as Eagle Eye is concerned.
17:58So England, I'm afraid, will lose one of their reviews.
18:03Watson lives on as Caddick did.
18:06They're slow to move out of the huddle.
18:08It's a soft little huddle out there.
18:11There was a pretty ordinary appeal.
18:13An ordinary review appeal.
18:15And then a really disconsolate walk out of the huddle.
18:18They're frustrated.
18:19Nothing's gone their way.
18:22Now it becomes even more important to keep bowling at this level.
18:26They're bowling well, England.
18:28Just nothing much has gone their way at all this morning.
18:31But if you start to think about your bad luck and nothing's going for you, then nothing will.
18:39Oh, yes!
18:41Yes, yes, yes!
18:45Perseverance pays.
18:47Strauss catches.
18:48Watson goes.
18:51Well, very, very good follow-up delivery.
18:53And that's terrific bowling from Jimmy Anderson.
18:55Because he's the one who's had two go against him, two referrals go against him.
19:01He could have got down in the dumps.
19:03But no, he followed up with an absolute beauty.
19:06And the skipper gets the catch.
19:08And boy, there'll be some relief in this huddle.
19:10As England get their first breakthrough.
19:13And Australia are one for 78 at the Gabba.
19:15Leg glance as he hit it.
19:22They reckon he has.
19:24So does the umpire.
19:26Innocuous as you like.
19:27Ponting's got to go.
19:29Don't worry about the plans.
19:30The old strangle down the leg side.
19:32That's an absolute bonus, that is.
19:35And Ricky Ponting would have been talking at lunch today.
19:37Everyone would have been asking, what's a wicket like?
19:39It's good.
19:40Wants to set himself for a big innings.
19:42Had to start again after the break.
19:43And then he's just tickled one down the leg side.
19:45Can you believe it?
19:47It's an absolute bonus for England and Jimmy Anderson.
19:51Ian Chappell was talking about it.
19:53Straight off the back edge of the Kookaburra.
19:57Ian Chappell was talking about it.
19:59You hang in there.
19:59You're not bowling as badly as the statistics are saying.
20:02Then things can turn your way.
20:05Well that is disappointing for Australia.
20:07But England don't want to hear a bar of that.
20:09Ponting's out for ten.
20:12It's four.
20:13And it's gone.
20:15Six foot eight.
20:16Down at pace to catch a beauty.
20:19Super catch.
20:20Very hard.
20:21Six foot seven.
20:22Six foot eight.
20:23To bend over down at those toes.
20:24Stretch the hamsters.
20:26He managed to get down.
20:27He was alert enough that he could catch it.
20:29That's exactly what Steve Finn needed.
20:32That's the wicket they wanted to with Katic to start.
20:35Two new batters.
20:36Now it's a good catch.
20:38Just held up on him a little bit.
20:39Tried it a bit square.
20:41It's a good catch.
20:41That's his first Asher's wicket.
20:43He would have been thinking about,
20:45how, what was my first one going to be?
20:47Well there it is.
20:48Just what England needed too.
20:50Three for a hundred Australia.
20:52Simon Katic's gone for a well compiled 50.
20:54Pack slips field.
20:59He's not in great form.
21:00Finn to continue.
21:02Nearly caught.
21:06Well I'm not too sure that that carried.
21:08I think it was probably just short.
21:10But the staggered slip cord and certainly hands flying in all direction.
21:14The reaction there of Swan would suggest that he's dropped it.
21:17Yeah, just looking at Swan's body language and his reaction there.
21:20I reckon it carried.
21:21It was a good effort.
21:22He had to go.
21:22It wasn't a carry to first slip.
21:24Swan made the early call.
21:25He went.
21:27Oh, it's a great effort from Graeme Swan.
21:31Nice use of the grease.
21:33Back and across and finds the gap.
21:35Again, it looks good, Hussie.
21:37Just survived first ball.
21:39Since then, it looked pretty good.
21:43Oh, good shot.
21:46It is a good touch, Michael Hussie.
21:47Don't worry about that.
21:49That was pretty close to cut,
21:50but he didn't try and hit it too hard or in front of point.
21:53He just used the pace.
21:57That's got him.
21:57That's got him.
22:00Tempted pull shot from Michael Clarke and a little top edge through to the keeper.
22:04So, the bowling change has worked.
22:06Finn's come into the attack and got rid of Clarke.
22:13Perseverance wins the game for England.
22:15Just believe.
22:16Keep going.
22:16Do what you do well.
22:17And in the end, it forces the error.
22:21A little bit of extra bounce, maybe, from Finn.
22:23Matt Pryor taking it with his fingers pointing to the sky.
22:26But, boy, I mean, a bit as we said earlier.
22:28Didn't England need that?
22:29What a game of cricket this is.
22:33A difficult time for Michael Clarke out there.
22:35He made nine.
22:36It's four for 140.
22:42Oh, got him.
22:43Good delivery.
22:45Regulation off spinner.
22:46Finds the edge.
22:47And Collingwood at first, if he doesn't drop too many.
22:56Well, just what Grace Swan needed.
23:00Two left-handers that he could go away with.
23:02And Marcus North, we're talking about looking to attack when you're first getting in.
23:06That's just a searching.
23:07That's just a normal off spinner.
23:08He's just pushing at it, trying to get himself in.
23:10Thinks he hasn't done anything wrong there.
23:13Had that in set.
23:14And maybe what Mark Nicola said about attacking, he might have done something else.
23:17Swans get his confidence.
23:19He's got his first strike in this series.
23:20And Marcus North goes for one.
23:23Australia lose their fifth wicket.
23:24Fire for 143.
23:26Hussey going really well.
23:27He's got one to get.
23:29He's half-century.
23:30He's on strike at the moment.
23:32Fielder's just coming in a little bit.
23:33Two men back on the hook shot.
23:37Oh, yes, there it is.
23:38That's his half-century.
23:40Very well played, Michael Hussey.
23:43Came out to bat today under pressure.
23:46Quite a few people of the view that his place is in jeopardy.
23:52He's responded well.
23:55There it is.
23:57Finally got one away, Brad Haddon.
23:59And a much-needed boundary for the keeper.
24:03It's Hussey again.
24:06Always timing the ball well.
24:07What a great catch of his own bowling that showed one his athleticism and ball sense.
24:14That's a good delivery.
24:16Really good delivery.
24:17Good enough to do for Michael Hussey who wants it reviewed.
24:21Hussey will feel it's missing leg stump.
24:23Confirmation first of Hotspot that he didn't hit it.
24:26And there's no suggestion there that he did.
24:28No little white mark on that edge of the bat.
24:31Where did the ball pitch?
24:33Oh.
24:34I reckon it pitched outside leg stump.
24:37And I reckon Hussey will get away with it.
24:39And a correct challenge.
24:42Mike Hussey.
24:44Only the second of the morning.
24:46And I reckon that was Andrew Strauss' biggest fear.
24:49And Haddon, who's been stuck at that other end for a long time, stalled, gets that single through the misfield.
24:55And now he gets a little ball he can dab for four and get great value for that little shot.
25:05Well, he's certainly played, he's been quite happy playing second fiddle to Michael Hussey.
25:11And did it very well.
25:12Showed a lot of responsibility yesterday.
25:14Could be a sign that he's just starting to feel more comfortable.
25:18And Australia closing in on that England total.
25:23The knockers are silenced.
25:27Two catches in front of him.
25:28Three catches in front.
25:30One in cover.
25:31One mid-wicket.
25:31One right on the wicket.
25:33On the leg side.
25:36Oh, he spooned it.
25:38How well has he hit it?
25:39Cooks underneath it.
25:41Did a great effort.
25:42Did a great job.
25:43But couldn't grab it.
25:45Well, just a mistimed shot.
25:50Nearly went for six.
25:57Well, nearly did the trick Andrew Strauss bringing Paul Collingwood.
26:02Hadn't wanted having a big piece of image showing his intent.
26:04Just didn't quite get it.
26:05Made some good ground.
26:07But it's one of those ones that probably shouldn't have been, should have been taken.
26:11Lofted straight drive.
26:13Yes, I've got to say that it looks to me as if they've got Swan's measure.
26:19They really have gone after him today.
26:22Right from the word go.
26:23Katic went after him.
26:24Got two fours off him in his first over of the innings.
26:28And, well, we saw Hussey play some great full shots.
26:32And now Hadn, who plays that lofted straight drive as well as anyone in world cricket.
26:37And dives.
26:38Well wide.
26:39Four more to Hadn.
26:42Yes, second slip.
26:43Would have snaffled that one.
26:44Just a little top edge, I think it was.
26:48And right into the second slip area there.
26:51Just a little bit too wide.
26:57Goes for it.
26:58Will it get there?
27:00Oh, no, he's put it down.
27:02He's put it down.
27:03I don't believe it.
27:06James Anderson.
27:08Well, the tactic worked beautifully.
27:12Hadn went for the shot.
27:13Missed, cued it.
27:14And James Anderson, who normally has a very safe pair of hands, puts down the chance.
27:21Can you believe it?
27:23Jimmy Anderson bowled so well without luck and suddenly has a chance to get another wicket.
27:28Another catch goes down.
27:29Their fast bowlers have fielded well through the game so far.
27:33Jimmy Anderson himself has fielded well.
27:35The tactic of going for the bounces has worked.
27:37It gave the opportunity.
27:38Was that another moment?
27:39We think of Alistair Cook dropping one that should have been taken.
27:43And there's another one that should have been taken off the advertising boards.
27:46Marking instructions.
27:48That's very well played.
27:53Again, he's so quick to get down the pitch.
27:56Leaves it till the ball's out of the hand of the bowler.
27:58And then, on that occasion, literally was cat-like as he went after the half-volley career.
28:05After turning it into a half-volley.
28:07Watch this.
28:07Now, that's been a big feature of the innings.
28:12There's been no hesitation with his footwork from, I was going to say, ball one.
28:17We've got the hero from Australia down on the sideline instead of the putts.
28:21Well, you reckon it can only be height.
28:30It's about the only thing you can reckon.
28:32And I think that's what Ricky Ponning's probably asking me.
28:37Ben Hilton, obviously, saying, let's have a look at it.
28:40Let's have a look at it.
28:41The pitch is just outside off.
28:43Hits in line.
28:44And bounces just a little too much.
28:47A gutsy review for the Aussies.
28:50Doesn't come off.
28:51What a terrific decision.
28:53What a decision that is.
28:55Now, there's an edge and it's through the gap.
28:59Just wide of third slip.
29:05Yeah.
29:07That's better.
29:09A little bit of width.
29:12We played skip.
29:15Cracking shot.
29:17It was wide and he's banged it away.
29:20It's a curve start.
29:21He's in good touch.
29:21And it's a cook.
29:2267 in the first innings.
29:24And that was a long hop from a medium pacer.
29:28Yes, well, I enjoyed it when they went around the wicket because it gives you a better side of the ball.
29:33There's always a bit of a blind spot for a left hand.
29:35They pitch middle and leg and move it across.
29:36That's why you normally get caught behind her in the slip court.
29:39That's quite a good all-rounder.
29:41Well, there's a lot of batting to be done and a few of them there are going to have to make a serious contribution.
29:55Jonathan Trot there.
29:57Kevin Peterson.
29:59Trot you in next.
30:00Then Peterson.
30:01I'm not too sure they got their batting or the right England.
30:03Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
30:04That hurts because there's only two men on the onside.
30:09I don't ever understand this, really.
30:11We're trying to get wickets.
30:13There's only two on the onside, the left-handed batsman.
30:15So he's got a ball almost out-tod off stump.
30:18Nice use of the feet.
30:23He's found the gap too, has Strauss.
30:26Another boundary.
30:28Well, I'm interested to see Andrew Strauss using his feet to the left-arm orthodox spinner.
30:33The first one, this is a very good shot and a lot smoother, I reckon, on that occasion.
30:38When he did it last over, the first thing that ended my head was he's jumping rather than gliding.
30:46And through it goes again.
30:48It's the 100 up for England.
30:52What a lovely way to bring it up.
30:58Oh, an edge.
31:00Inside edge this time.
31:02Misses the stumps just.
31:04Races away for four more.
31:12Disaster.
31:15Disaster.
31:15Doughty gets the shot played.
31:17The miss hit achieved.
31:20And the catch goes down.
31:23Wow, that's a big drop.
31:2525 minutes to the break.
31:27And for Xavier Doughty, there's the captain, Andrew Strauss.
31:30He's in the footmarks.
31:31He tried to send Xavier Doughty down the ground.
31:34Mitchell Johnson puts it down.
31:38One he should have taken.
31:42Oh, he's gone down the ground.
31:44That's a warrior shot using his feet.
31:47Strauss, as Hussey did, going down to the spinner, hitting over the infield.
31:52Takes a lot of courage and skill.
31:53Yeah, not letting the bowler settle.
31:56It's exactly what Hussey and Haddon did yesterday to Swan.
31:59Not giving the spinner a chance to settle into some good line length.
32:03Cuts and could be it.
32:08Well tied.
32:08He's got to go all the way.
32:09And magnificent hundred for the inland captain.
32:11Made under enormous pressure.
32:13Duck in the first and in.
32:14Great fight back.
32:17By Andrew Strauss.
32:18His 19th test hundred.
32:20Seventh as captain.
32:22Fourth versus Australia.
32:23First in Australia.
32:24What a time for hundred guys.
32:27Half chances.
32:29Taken.
32:29Haddon had a long way to go.
32:32It took some time.
32:34But Strauss was even slower than it.
32:39Nicely flighted there by Marcus North.
32:42Threw it a little wider.
32:44That's why it took Haddon a long time to get back to the stumps.
32:48But a very well flighted delivery.
32:51And fooled Strauss in the flight.
32:54Well gone.
32:56And the first wicket goes with 188 on the board.
32:59That 187 didn't quite work.
33:05There's the lead.
33:07England.
33:08Back in the black.
33:14Three in front of Australia.
33:16Australia will bat again.
33:21It'll run away.
33:23It will run away.
33:24All the way.
33:25It was almost a toe in.
33:27I thought Ian Neely did a great job actually.
33:31In the air.
33:32Oh no.
33:34Not far from mid wicket.
33:38Shot played with conviction.
33:39Yeah he certainly hit it nice and hard.
33:43But he wasn't that far away from mid wicket.
33:46But it hit so hard that he was never ever going to get a hand on it.
33:49Just watch this fly off the bat.
33:51There it is with a big bound here.
33:56Well played Alistair Cook.
33:58His 14th test hundred man under pressure.
34:017th versus Australia.
34:03Both in Australia.
34:058th outside of England.
34:06And he's more than 100 in 2010.
34:09What an innings.
34:14Cats is a cry.
34:15It comes in.
34:16Oh he misses it.
34:17Just bounces in front.
34:18It goes for four.
34:19Big effort by the big Victorian.
34:22May have hurt himself as well.
34:23Holding that right arm.
34:24Well that was a half chance.
34:27We saw one or two yesterday go down.
34:31I don't like the look of that.
34:33I mean I don't like the look of the chance being missed.
34:36But I don't like the look of the way Siddle's carrying his right arm.
34:40His bowling arm.
34:44It's twisted there.
34:46As he's gone over and he's banged it and rolled over on it.
34:51Nicely played.
34:52That could well be four more.
34:54Shot on the back foot.
34:55A beautiful onside player.
35:02Oh and he's put it down.
35:05Well he got a hand to that one.
35:07And just for a second.
35:09It looked as if we were going to see a magnificent catch.
35:13He went full length to his left.
35:15Watch this whistle off the bat.
35:17Another one down.
35:20Well it was flying pretty hard.
35:22And he actually has it but until.
35:26And because he had it only in the fingers it was never going to stick once he hit the ground.
35:31But it was a mighty effort.
35:32No wonder his fellow players thought that he'd caught it.
35:35Oh that's got to be close.
35:39That's very very close to off stump.
35:42Perhaps it didn't do enough.
35:44Well.
35:46You can't leave them that close.
35:48The question is.
35:52Well the umpire said not out.
35:56Ponting is still trying to decide I think.
35:59Is he going to have a go?
36:02Yes he is.
36:03And what you must remember now is that more than half of the ball must have going to hit the stumps.
36:09Otherwise it goes back to the umpire's call.
36:12Doesn't matter where it pitched.
36:14Ah.
36:15Missing the stumps.
36:16So Troc gets away with it by a hair's breath.
36:23That's well there we are.
36:24Good decision.
36:27That is a beautiful full shot.
36:29Gee he's been playing them with great control.
36:32Now power's starting to cut in.
36:33Come on Mornie.
36:34Say something about this.
36:35Get a message out to them.
36:36Oh there's a full toss.
36:40It deserves to be put away and is.
36:42And it's a little juicy one.
36:44The finish off the over.
36:48Goes again.
36:49Shouts of catch it.
36:51It's sliced up into the gap.
36:53This time a little bit squarer.
36:56Consecutive boundaries.
36:58Ponting back to second slip.
37:03And you see that cover driver.
37:05He just leans on it.
37:06It's going to be 150.
37:13For the third time he's reached 150 in test match cricket.
37:17His conversion rate is excellent.
37:22That's four more.
37:25Perfect up drive.
37:33That's four more.
37:34Well it was two record stands.
37:36It's the opening stand between Strauss and Cooks.
37:38A record at the gather against England.
37:39And this is a record stand for the number three.
37:42So two records in a row.
37:44And then there's a third because of the stand between Hussey and Haddin.
37:46Which was a record for the sixth wicket for any Australians here at the gather.
37:49Here we go.
37:50Oh dear.
37:51Oh dear.
37:51Finally they get an edge and he puts it down.
38:03It was a sitter.
38:05Michael Clark, a brilliant slipper.
38:07Has dropped.
38:08On 75.
38:09it's over gone one for 360. Michael Clark dropped a hot catch of Siddle this is a
38:18sitter, catch in practice, down, oh great shot, that's a missed field and that brings Alistair
38:43Cook to his highest test score, oh that spot, that hit one of those spots you're talking about Tony Gregg
38:52and it's gone for four byes, oh and again, I'm not sure if that's hit some pad or not, it's certainly
39:02ripped down the leg side, no it's byes again, that may well have hit the same spot, that's a shot
39:13big gap left there in the hope that Cook would drive against the spin, but he got to the
39:17pitch of that ball and made it look so easy, up it goes again, it's full toss, he just couldn't
39:23get it to land where he needed it, that's a four, oh fastball down the leg side, no that's
39:31the runner, makes up there, he makes it, I make it through, and Alistair Cook, raise your
39:36bat proudly, you've done your country proud.
39:38country proud.
39:39Long zone, 200 from Alistair Cook, really great show of concentration, real good innings of
40:01character from the position that England would need it, were required at big innings, here
40:06it is, a big 200.
40:08That's worked, out of the back foot, into mid wicket, push, push, push, as he's pushing for
40:17the fielding, Patrick gets there, what a lunch break he's still going to have.
40:24Let's come back to that England viewing area and Andrew Flower with his, just beneath that
40:44laptop with his head down at the moment, you can only see the peak of his cap in the shades
40:47there, just looked up, he's England's coach and he's been unwell, he had a couple of days
40:51in hospital, quite worrying and he's come through it, he's a great guy, oh that's out, is it?
40:59No, didn't carry to Ricky Potty, did carry.
41:04I think Riggies is going to say he caught it, isn't he?
41:10Well I'd say that was a clean catch, instinctively.
41:14Yeah there's two, two and a half fingers underneath that and the ball didn't deviate, it didn't
41:20sort of move up into the hands at all, it stayed on the fingers and grasped around them.
41:26I'm with you Nico, that's out.
41:28Years gone by, I just would have been, did you catch that mate?
41:31Yep, off you go.
41:33Yeah and Ricky's been one who said that should be the case, so to fame Ricky on this, he's
41:38been quite strong about it and he hasn't been backed by other international captains.
41:44Ricky's said for a long time, why don't we all play that way?
41:48Oh it's a good shot that, oh, he used his feet beautifully and hammered it back past him off.
42:00Wonderful shot.
42:05Oh first ball, greeted with the boundary, take that Shane Watson.
42:13Edge and dropped, oh that's a tough one, really tough.
42:17Oh, it's not been Ricky Ponning's day.
42:22There are a few of them who've dropped them.
42:25They're not gonna, they're not sticking are they?
42:28Well, it was a real good effort wasn't it Ricky Ponning.
42:42That's a magnificent drive again, I tell you what.
42:46The feature of his driving through the upside has been his placement.
42:51Doesn't always hit them for four, but more often than not they go into the gap.
42:57He's an impressive player.
42:59Oh, that looks, I was gonna say all the way, but he hit it a bit flat.
43:08Steve Waugh didn't enforce the follow on.
43:11We've had to go out and bowl again.
43:13One for 517 and Andrew Strauss has declared.
43:16Well, I think this is a good move from Andrew Strauss.
43:20Yes, great effort by Alistair Cooke and Jonathan Trout.
43:29Sensational partnership at 329.
43:33You only know what you have to do.
43:35Shane Watson and Simon Cadditch, the Australian batsman.
43:38Shane Watson played pretty well in the first innings.
43:42Let's call it 40.
43:44What's 0.15 between friends?
43:4639.85.
43:47Call it 40, Bill.
43:48Simon Cadditch with his own way and his own technique.
43:51It's got a very good record.
43:5255 test matches, averaging 46 with over 4,000 runs with 10 hundreds.
43:58And I'd both like to dig in and get a big one here.
44:05There's an edge.
44:06That is taken.
44:07It's secure at first slip.
44:10An Aussie wicket goes down.
44:15It's a prod just outside the off stump.
44:17It was another short one.
44:19Yeah, very good bowling.
44:20Very, very good bowling.
44:21When you bear in mind that Cadditch moves across.
44:24That time he played and nicked.
44:26And again, this England slip cordon looked very safe to me.
44:30Strauss taking that as clean as a whistle.
44:33And, well, look at the smile on Broad's face.
44:36And that, of course, brings Ponting to the crease.
44:42That's a great shot.
44:44Well, if you pitch it up to Watson,
44:47he's one of the most fluent drivers in the game.
44:50And that was a good example.
44:56That's a beautiful shot.
44:59Well, he pushed Peterson back a little bit.
45:02But Ponting eased into that one.
45:03Mind you, a rank off volley.
45:08Out.
45:09Dropped.
45:10Oh, dear.
45:11We've been praising Collingwood's slip-catching ability.
45:15He's taken a few good ones already.
45:17This was a straightforward opportunity.
45:19Ponting drives.
45:24Nice and straight.
45:26And through Finn for four.
45:29Ah.
45:30That's what we like to see.
45:32When Ponting is hitting the pull shot like that,
45:34there's no problems.
45:35Oh, Ponting.
45:36Oh, he's hit that cleanly.
45:37And for six.
45:38Nice control pull shot.
45:39Oh, he's found a gap.
45:40Well, the gap between those two men down there was nothing more than 15 metres.
45:53Now Watson.
45:54Wasn't that short, that one.
45:55He's hit it away.
45:56And he's hit it away.
45:57Oh, he's hit that cleanly.
45:58Oh, he's hit that cleanly.
45:59And for six.
46:01Nice control pull shot.
46:02Oh, he's found a gap.
46:03Well, the gap between those two men down there was nothing more than 15 metres.
46:05Now Watson.
46:06Wasn't that short, that one.
46:08And he's hit it away in front of squares.
46:11A man out that way who didn't see it at all.
46:17I don't think he's this sort of polar, Steve Finn.
46:19I don't think this is his game.
46:21Maybe the occasional bouncer.
46:23Well, should always be the occasional bouncer because he's so tall.
46:26But not constant, you know, a barrage of short stuff.
46:30I don't think that's his game.
46:32Just works it around.
46:34And Ponting's away in the Vodafone Asses series.
46:39Very important 50 for Ricky Ponting.
46:41He's had a tough time in the field.
46:46And one for 517 England today.
46:49Makes a 50 not out so far.
46:54That's driven beautifully.
46:56Over pitched.
46:57The spin was easy to cover.
46:59And great timing achieved.
47:01The old one-stepper.
47:02It's interesting.
47:03There's something that could happen here.
47:04This could be the end of the day's play.
47:05But it's not.
47:06They've called for a drink.
47:07That's a start.
47:08Possibly the players could call it quits.
47:09And they have.
47:10Ricky Ponting signals with his handshake of Peterson.
47:11That the Vodafone first Ashes test is finished.
47:15What a match.
47:16Who would have thought a draw after England?
47:17What a match.
47:18Who would have thought a draw after England?
47:20The...
47:21Who would have thought a draw after England?
47:22Yeah.
47:23You say it, but it's great.
47:24That it's great.
47:25It's a start.
47:26You say it.
47:27It's great.
47:28It's great.
47:29You say it's great.
47:30That's great.
47:31That's great.
47:32It's great.
47:33It's great.
47:34I love looking at some of the three things.
47:37In the spring.
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