Story Australia vs England 5th Test (ICC 2006)

[gamerkid22]

Punter and Haydos played well and Aussies were excellent in their bowling.

 

[Slowcoach]

England should replace Giles with Panesar and also drop one of the quicks and play an extra batsman, Dalrymple might be a good choice because he is a solid batsman and his off spin could be handy on a 4th or 5th day pitch.

 

[plympilgrim]

lookin at it the aussies are dominating....again

 

[Super Baz]

Australia vs England 2nd Test - Adalaide

Day 3


Clarke knock puts Australia in good position

A wonderful 96 from Michael Clarke was the days main highlight as Australia pushed on with their 1st innings score , starting the day on 246-2 hoping to ease things along Hussey nicked one behind for 36 soon followed by Ponting falling lbw to Flintoff for 83 , Adam Gilchrist came and went for 6 and England were buzzing ,Michael Clarke looked solid though and England tried everything to remove him ,he soon reached 50 and was helped by Shane Watson who again put on a good batting performance ,Clarke fell on 96 lbw to Hoggard with the tail showing no resistance Watson was left carrying his bat on 50 .
Englands 2nd Innings started with a 139 run defesit hanging over them from the 1st innings , and Australia struck a might blow for the tourists in the 2nd over , with still no score on the board Strauss took a wild swipe outside off stump to a wide one only to help it along to Clarke who took a dolly , England 0-1 , Cook and Vaughan saw out the remainder of the day , England 50-1 at stumps.

overnight : AUS 246-2 (Ponting 79* , Hussey 36*)

Australia 1st Innings
Ponting ....lbw b Flintoff 83
Hussey....c Read b Flintoff 36
Clarke....lbw b Hoggard 96
Gilchrist....c Pietersen b Harmison 6
Watson Not Out 50
Lee....st Read b Giles 8
Warne....c Vaughan b Giles 5
Clark....lbw b Harmison 0
McGrath....b Flintoff 0

Australia were 434-all out (139.3ovs) Clarke 96 , Ponting 83 , Hayden 79.


England bowling
Harmison 26-5-70-2
Hoggard 34-7-91-1
Anderson 26-3-105-1
Flintoff 29.3-2-95-4
Giles 24-4-51-2


England 2nd Innings
Strauss....c Clarke b McGrath 0
Cook Not Out 18
Vaughan Not Out 28

England are 50-1wkt (26ovs) Vaughan 28*



Australia bowling
McGrath 9-2-20-1
Lee 8-3-11-0
Clark 5-0-6-0
Watson 4-1-12-0

Michael Clarke fell just 4 runs short of a hundred

Joy for Australia as Strauss is out for a duck

 

[plympilgrim]

the aussies collapsed a little towards the end, but still quite a lead over england

 

[Super Baz]

Australia vs England 2nd Test - Adalaide

Day 4



Australia on brink of victory

Australia need just 42 runs on day 5 to secure the 2nd test and go 2-0 up in the series , England started the day on 50-1 but wickets at regular intervils gave Australia the upper hand , Pietersen & Cook together looked as if they might give Australia a decent total to chase but nobody else contributed in all England all out for 222 , leaving Australia needing just 84 runs to win the match ,at close they were half way there on 42-0 .

Overnight : ENG 50-1 (Vaughan 28*, Cook 18* )

England 2nd Innings
Cook....c Ponting b McGrath 54
Vaughan....c Gilchrist b Clark 28
Bell .....c Clarke b Watson 13
Pietersen....b Warne 47
Flintoff.... c Clarke b Lee 36
Read....b Clark 17
Giles.... Not Out 9
Anderson....lbw b Lee 4
Harmison....b Lee 2
Hoggard....lbw b Lee 0

England were 222-all out (92ovs) Cook 54 , Lee 4-37


Australia bowling
McGrath 25-5-58-2
Lee 20-5-37-4
Clark 18-5-39-2
Watson 15-3-56-1
Warne 14-2-29-1



Australia req 84 to win

Australia 2nd Innings
Hayden....Not Out 27
Langer....Not Out 9

Australia are 42-0 (23ovs) Hayden 27*


England bowling
Harmison 7-2-7-0
Hoggard 6-2-7-0
Giles 5-0-9-0
Anderson 5-0-17-0

Alistair Cook dug in with a 54

Brett Lee has Anderson trapped lbw for 4 ,and went on to take 4-37

 

[plympilgrim]

oh deary me the aussies look like they are gonna win again

 

[Super Baz]

Australia vs England 2nd Test - Adalaide

Day 4


Australia ease to 9 wicket victory

Australia needed just 19 overs to finish this test match and go 2 nil up in the series ,the only wicket to fall was Justin Langer misjudging a slower ball from Flintoff for 10 , it was only fitting that the winning run was Matthew Hayden`s 50 , captain Ponting was 16no.

overnight : AUS 42-0 (Hayden 27* , Langer 9*)

Australia 2nd Innings
Hayden.... Not Out 50
Langer....b Flintoff 10
Ponting Not Out 16

Australia were 84-1 (42.2ovs) Hayden 50no , Ponting 16no


England bowling
Harmison 11-2-19-0
Hoggard 9-3-10-0
Anderson 10-0-28-0
Flintoff 5-1-12-1
Giles 7.2-1-13-0


Australia beat England by 9 wickets


MOM - M.Clarke ( 96 & 4 catches)
Australia lead series 2-0

Matthew Hayden hits a unbeaten 50 to guide Australia home

Michael Vaughan wonders how it all went wrong

 

[Deleted member 13648]

Grrrr, England lose again!

C'mon England, get it together

 

[Super Baz]

2nd Test interviews

Duncan Fletcher
" Really dissapointed to have come away with nothing in Adalaide ,again its individual errors that have let us down playing good at certain spells then our heads go down again. The lads are gutted they have lost so badly and now know we have to win the final 3 tests ,its a big ask but we will give it our best ".

John Buchanan
"Delighted to be going into the 3rd test 2-0 up , after our huge win at Brisbane we knew England would be smarting so to come away with another big win is great for our morale ,the lads were buzzing in the dressing room they know one more win wins back the ashes .
England played well in spells but once they lose a wicket we are able to keep the pressure on and take a few more in quick succession which you could see was denting their concentration and the crowd were exellent as well, a great knock by Micheal Clarke really gave us that extra which England couldn`t reply to ,then supberb line and length from Clark and Lee left me in no doubt over the result ."

 

[plympilgrim]

an easy win for the aussies....again

 

[Jaztheman]

an easy win for the ausies, quite comfortable really

 

[Super Baz]

Teams for 3rd Test - Perth

Australia
M.Hayden
J.Langer
R.Ponting(capt)
M.Hussey
M.Clarke
A.Gilchrist(wkt)
S.Watson
B.Lee
S.Warne
S.Clark
G.McGrath
12th : A.Symonds

England
A.Strauss
A.Cook
M.Vaughan(capt)
K.Pietersen
I.Bell
P.Collingwood
A.Flintoff
C.Read(wkt)
M.Panesar
M.Hoggard
S.Harmison
12th:S.Mahmood

Monty Panesar gets his chance in place of Ashley Giles

Paul Collingwood is brought in to bolster the batting


round up
England make two changes with Panesar and Collingwood replacing Giles and Anderson ,coach Duncan Fletcher was under pressure from the media during and after the 2nd test to change things as England have to avoid defeat.
Australia on the other hand stick to the same X1 which has performed well in the first two tests .

 

[surendar]

Situation is like the real life one.. Hope England doesnt get white washed here .. atleast i like to see a Test win!

Some magic from KP ( in batting ) & Monty ( In bowling ) is needed Gud Luck to both the teams!

 

[plympilgrim]

agree with you there suren, they need someone to perform to really high standard