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# The Ashes 2010: Australia v England, second Test, day four report
## Second Test, day four: Australia (245 & 238-4) trail England (620-5 dec)
by 137 runs
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Breakthrough: Kevin Pietersen celebrates claiming Michael Clarke in the last
over of the day Photo: AFP
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Frustration: Australia batsman Mike Hussey enjoys his share of the luck Photo:
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Weather warning: dark clouds circle around the Adelaide Oval Photo: PA
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Horsing around: supporters dress up for the occasion on day four Photo: AP
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Prize scalp: Graeme Swann has Ricky Ponting caught behind by Paul Collingwood
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By [Scyld Berry][8] 8:09AM GMT 06 Dec 2010
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Reports of the demise of [**Australian**][11] Test cricket have been
exaggerated. The hosts go into the final day with an outside chance of saving
the second Test, especially if rain arrives at the Adelaide Oval as it has
done for the last two afternoons.
Utterly outplayed on first innings - Australia were 375 runs behind in the
first half of the match - the home side have had their spirit revived a little
in their second.
The fight was taken to [**England**][12] firstly by Shane Watson and Simon
Katich, who shared another of their moderately successful opening stands, then
by Michael Clarke and Mike Hussey in a fourth-wicket partnership which had
England worried - until Kevin Pietersen ended the day as he began it,
triumphantly.
Clarke had not made significant runs since being promoted from number five to
four. Today he justified his promotion, and his vice-captaincy, by conducting
Australia to 238 for the loss of three wickets just before the close of day
four. Only for Pietersen to intervene.
Pietersen had earlier made his highest Test score of 227, beating his previous
best, against West Indies, by one run - and had shredded Australia's bowling
in the process, and reduced their fielding to some village-green antics.
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But Pietersen was just as triumphant when he delivered - with a more vigorous
bowling action than he has used hitherto - an offbreak which leaped at Clarke
in the last over of the fourth day.
Australia's vice-captain could not keep the ball down, so much did it lift,
and it went off the shoulder of his bat to his thigh pad before lobbing up for
Alastair Cook to sprint back from short-leg.
England had not become despondent, but they had surely become perplexed by the
number of chances that had just eluded them. Graeme Swann, from the Cathedral
end, brought about a succession of nicks, squeezes and pop-ups with his
offbreaks; but they kept on falling just out of the reach of England's close
fielders in a defiance of probability.
So England were due some luck. Steve Finn had bowled his best spell of the
series, making even Hussey - in his purple patch - play and miss several
times. Swann, too, had bowled his best yet in Australia. And it could be
counted as ill luck that Stuart Broad had strained some stomach muscles - an
injury which normally takes some weeks to mend and makes Broad's participation
in any of the last three Tests doubtful at best.
The facts are that only about one England pace bowler per tour stays fit for
all five Tests of a series in Australia. In 2006-7 Andrew Flintoff and Steve
Harmison played all five Tests, if to no great avail, while in 2002-3 none of
England's pace bowlers did.
In 1998-9 Darren Gough played all five Tests, but no England bowler did in
1994-5. In 1986-7 no England pace bowler played all five, but Bob Willis and
Ian Botham did in 1982-3.
The replacement for Broad in Perth will be Chris Tremlett if England want a
fairly like-for-like to bowl downwind, if not like the wind, and to generate
some bounce.
Alternatively, England could replace Broad with Tim Bresnan. Then Bresnan
would be treated as the workhorse who would bowl into the wind - the Fremantle
Doctor - along with Swann, while Anderson is given the end which his senior
status deserves and bowls downwind with Finn.
England's batting would be less weakened if Broad were to be replaced by
Bresnan: indeed it would be just about a like-for-like replacement in batting
terms at No 8. On the other hand, an England tail of Swann, Tremlett, Anderson
and Finn would be rather long.
No tailenders were needed in England's first innings here when Pietersen, Ian
Bell and Matt Prior did all the demolition required first thing. They added 69
runs in only 40 minutes before the declaration, 375 runs ahead.
It was almost a shot a ball by England. Australia's new left-arm spinner
Xavier Doherty bowled his three overs for 38 runs. They might remain his last
for Australia - if those of his teammates left to bat do not perform on the
final day, starting with the second new ball.
Then they will have to contend with the offspin of Swann and England's
talented, remodelled, practioner: that man Pietersen.
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