England batsmen show some bottle

Nov 26, 2006

$42.3 Hoggard to Langer, 4 runs, lovely shot, a hook through midwicket off a ball which is just fractionally short$

42.3 Hoggard to Langer, 4 runs, lovely shot, a hook through midwicket off a ball which is just fractionally short•Getty Images

45.1 Harmison to Langer, 1 run, Langer punches the air in celebration of his ton as soon as he's hit that one to midwicket and races through the single. And Australia have declared - at last•Getty Images

13.2 Warne to Bell, OUT, Bell gets well forward, the ball hit him on the front pad and a confident appeal gets the finger from Steve Bucknor. Bell looks unhappy - a bit more than disappointment - as that could have been sliding down the leg side. It matters not a jot, he's out and England are slipping towards a day off tomorrow•Getty Images

And Kevin Pietersen took the attack to Australia with a typically confident fifty...•Getty Images

55.2 Warne to Pietersen, FOUR, short and Pietersen cuts that with real power to the cover boundary. That's his seventh Test fifty•Getty Images

63.3 Warne to Collingwood, OUT, GONE! Warne's done it for Australia and Collingwood is gone for 96, what agony. Agony for Collingwood, skipping miles down the pitch and trying to smack Warne over his head to reach a hundred. It was a classic legbreak from Warne, turning prodigiously, Gilchrist snaffled it and whipped off the bails. Collingwood's hang-me-now expression tells the story•Getty Images

...and was well supported once again by Ricky Ponting...•Getty Images

Ricky Ponting receives advice on his injured back from the Australia physio. It was bad enough to keep him off the field for the remainder of the day•Getty Images

Alastair Cook was solid in defence...•Getty Images

...sharing in a big stand with Paul Collingwood who made a fine 96•Getty Images

57.4 Warne to Collingwood, FOUR, leg-side full toss which Collingwood, who has been in three hours, sees like a football and launches over midwicket for a two-bounce four•Getty Images

71.4 Warne to Flintoff, OUT, suicide. Absolute kamikaze from Flintoff. Warne banged it in short, Flintoff tried to pull it, and miscued it to Langer at long-off who didn't need to move a muscle, apart from those lifting his hands up to his face. Warne claps his hands; Flintoff trudges off. Dreadful stroke and that's opened up the tail•Getty Images

10.4 Clark to Strauss, OUT, Sucker punch! Clark bangs one in and Strauss hooks but doesn't get over it and Ryan Broad, the substitute on for McGrath, runs in three or four yards and pouches the catch ten yards in from the boundary•Getty Images

29.2 Warne to Cook, OUT, GONE! Big turn from Warne there, Cook came tentatively forward - not reading the spin - blindly looking for the ball, gets an inside edge to Hussey at short leg. Fine innings from Cook, but simply not enough•Getty Images

53.3 Warne to Pietersen, no run, Pietersen went to cut, missed and a massive appeal from the close fielders as Gilchrist took it ... Gilchrist races down the pitch but Bucknor not interested. The Australians are perplexed and, oddly, Bucknor looked across to his colleague before seeming to shrug. Replays not clear either way•Getty Images

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