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First Ashes Test against England at Trent Bridge:
Aussies chase 311 to win
NOTTINGHAM, July 13. - Australia, chasing a victory target of 311
runs, were 164/6 (62 overs) shortly before close on the fourth day of
their first Ashes Test against England continued at Trent Bridge here
today.
Trailing by 65 runs on the first innings, England batsmen put up an
improved performance in the second essay to make 375 all out.
Australia started off their run chase with a blistering 84-run
partnership for the first wicket between Shane Watson (46) and Chris
Rogers (52). But the home team fought back to capture three Australian
wickets with the addition of another 40 runs.
Australia’s Chris Rogers scored his maiden Test fifty before the
see-saw Ashes opener against England took yet another twist.
To what turned out to be the last ball before tea, Australia lost Ed
Cowan -- who played at Trent Bridge earlier this season for
Nottinghamshire -- when he edged part-time spinner Joe Root to Jonathan
Trott at slip on 14.
Cowan’s exit left Australia 111 for two in their second innings --
needing exactly 200 more tuns to reach their daunting victory target of
311.
No side has made more to win in the fourth innings of a Trent Bridge
Test than England’s 284 for six against New Zealand in 2004.
Rogers, like Cowan a left-hander, battled hard to complete a 104-ball
fifty with eight fours, with the 35-year-old playing his second Test
five years after making his debut.
Australia frustrated England in the initial stages of their chase
before opener Shane Watson was lbw to a Stuart Broad inswinger for 46.
The all-rounder reviewed Kumar Dharmasena’s out verdict but, with the
Decision Review System indicating the ball would have clipped the edge
of leg stump, the Sri Lankan’s call was upheld.
It was the latest controversial decision in this match but Watson,
restored to his favoured opening position by new Australia coach Darren
Lehmann, had to go having failed to add to his meagre tally of two
hundreds in what was now his 42nd Test.
And 84 for one nearly became 85 for two when Rogers was given out
caught behind off spinner Graeme Swann on 38.
Rogers immediately reviewed the decision and, with replays showing
neither an edge nor indicating he was lbw, he was reprieved. Earlier,
Ian Bell’s 109 had been the cornerstone of Ashes-holders England’s
second innings 375.
Bell, 95 not out overnight, shared a seventh-wicket stand of 138 with
Broad (65).
All-rounder Broad was controversially given not out on 37 on Friday
despite edging teenage debutant spinner Ashton Agar to Australia captain
Michael Clarke at slip, a decision the tourists couldn’t challenge as by
then they’d used up both their reviews. Apart from a tough diving chance
dropped by Haddin off Peter Siddle when he was on 77, Bell batted near
faultlessly on Friday after coming in with England only 56 runs in front
and three wickets down.
SCOREBOARD
England 1st Innings 215
Australia 1st Innings 280
ENGLAND 2ND INNINGS
A. Cook c Clarke b Agar 50
J. Root c Haddin b Starc 05
J. Trott lbw b Starc 00
K. Pietersen b Pattinson 64
I. Bell c Haddin b Starc 109
J. Bairstow c Haddin b Agar 15
M. Prior c Cowan b Siddle 31
S. Broad c Haddin b Pattinson 65
G. Swann c Clarke b Siddle 09
S. Finn not out 02
J. Anderson c Hughes b Siddle 00
Extras (b2, lb13, w1, nb9) 25
Total (all out, 149.5 overs, 660 mins) 375
Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Root), 2-11 (Trott), 3-121 (Pietersen)
4-131 (Cook), 5-176 (Bairstow), 6-218 (Prior)
7-356 (Broad), 8-371 (Bell), 9-375 (Swann)
10-375 (Anderson)
Bowling: Pattinson 34-8-101-2 (1nb)
Starc 32-7-81-3 (5nb, 1w)
Agar 35-9-82-2 (1nb)
Siddle 33.5-12-85-3 (2nb)
Watson 15-11-11-0
Australia 2nd Innings
S. Watson lbw b Broad 46
C. Rogers not out 50
E. Cowan c Trott b Root 14
Extras (nb1) 01
Total (2 wkts, 36.4 overs, 151 mins) 111
Fall of wickets: 1-84 (Watson), 2-111 (Cowan)
Bowling: Anderson 9-1-33-0
Broad 8-1-22-1 (1nb)
Swann 15-3-42-0
Finn 3-0-9-0
Root 1.4-0-5-1 |
