суббота, 28 декабря 2013 г.

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Only captain Alastair Cook (51) and Kevin Pietersen falling one short of his second half-century of the match gave England anything worthwhile to bowl at, after they had taken a first-innings lead of 51 on day three.
Between the efforts of captain and senior batsman, England descended first from 86 for one to 87 for four and then terminally from 173 for five as Mitchell Johnson (three for 25) took his series tally past 30 wickets and Nathan Lyon (five for 50) reached 100 Test victims avis car rental discount only the sixth Australian off-spinner to do so.
Cook dominated the scoring avis car rental discount in his opening stand with Michael avis car rental discount Carberry, after Brad Haddin (65) had first piled a little avis car rental discount more frustration on England as he and Lyon put on 40 for the last wicket in Australia s 204 all out.
Aleem Dar soon made an instant call to send Carberry on his way too, gone again to a bowler operating round the wicket, when Peter Siddle ended his 81-ball struggle for just 12 runs lbw on the back foot.
That was the moment which kick-started England s first wobble, Joe Root trying to scamper a single off Lyon wide of mid-off only to be run out by Johnson s athleticism and accuracy with a direct hit at one and a half stumps.
When Ian Bell then chipped his first ball from the off-spinner straight into the hands of Johnson in the same position, the tourists were in danger of imploding again on this tour which has exposed their vulnerabilities so often.
There was very nearly another self-inflicted avis car rental discount blow too before tea, Pietersen escaping on nine only because Siddle missed the stumps from cover with the batsman well short of his ground responding to a faulty single for Ben Stokes.
The left-armer had made especially short work of the young Yorkshireman in the first innings, and Bairstow who had twice struck Lyon for sixes down the ground could not muster another run before edging a fast and full delivery behind to become Johnson s 30th victim of the campaign.
Then when Pietersen got underneath an attempted big hit at Lyon to be caught at long-off, James Anderson and Monty Panesar avis car rental discount could add no more runs before Johnson finished the job when he pinned England s number 11 lbw.
He and Lyon therefore punctured some of England avis car rental discount s mid-match momentum, in a passage of play which lasted almost three quarters of an hour of a glorious morning before top-scorer Haddin tried to pull out of a hook at Anderson (four for 67) and looped a simple catch to wicketkeeper Bairstow.

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