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# The Ashes 2010: Australian media reaction to England's dominance in Adelaide

##  Australia's bowlers have received widespread criticism from their national
media after rain brings play to a premature end on day three of the second
Test.

![][1]

Crumbling: Australian media has welcomed the arrival of rain saying it is the
side's only chance to turn the second Test around Photo: ACTION IMAGES

By Telegraph staff 11:00AM GMT 05 Dec 2010

[Comments][2]

[**Sydney Morning Herald: Can't bat, can't bowl and now we can't field**][3]

**Jesse Hogan:** Batting and bowling talent were key factors in Australia
becoming the dominant Test team of the past 20 years. So, too, was fielding.
Australia's uncharacteristic struggles with bat and ball of late have been
well documented but, based on this Ashes series so far, the malaise has also
infected the fielding.

Brad Haddin's spill behind the wicket yesterday of Jonathan Trott shortly
before tea was the 11th chance Australia squandered in seven days of cricket
against England.

In Brisbane, Trott was twice dropped by Michael Clarke, on 34 and then 75, on
the way to his unbeaten 135. Clarke deserved credit for getting a hand to the
first chance, at point, but the second, at slip, should have been a cinch for
any international cricketer.

Haddin's spill was not as costly as the others - Trott made only two more -
but it was symptomatic of Australia failing to take half- chances, as Trott
did on the fourth ball of day one when he threw down the stumps from side-on.

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[**The Australian: heat on Australia's faulting campaign**][10]

**Andrew Faulkner:** Australia is hoping the rain that halted play in the in
Adelaide continues for the next two days so it can reset and start again in
Perth. The forecast for tomorrow is a shower or two with a chance of a
thunderstorm.

By the time rain prevented any play after tea, Kevin Pietersen had passed 200
and the England lead in this second Ashes Test had blown out to 306 after
Australia managed just two wickets in the two sessions of play today.

Adding to Australia's woes, opening batsman Simon Katich has been hobbling
about the field suffering from an apparent achilles injury.

Pietersen brought up his double century 20 minutes before tea with a sharp
single to mid-off then launched into a passable Elvis impression, going down
on one knee and pumping a clenched glove.

Australia's tactic of bouncing Pietersen was proving an embarrassing failure.

[**Sydney Morning Herald: Relaxed England feast on runs as bowlers wilt in
heat **][11]

**Jamie Pandaram:** No question the batsmen made it onerous, but the latest
instalment of Australia's bowling attack have fared no better than their
predecessors in Brisbane.

So where to for the selectors from here? Is there any combination of bowlers
that can take 20 England wickets this summer? It looks unlikely at the going
rate. England's bowlers managed 10 wickets in a day; Australia will be lucky
to take the same amount in three following yesterday's exhausting and largely
fruitless campaign in suffocating heat.

England are exposing the hosts' weaknesses and hiding their own very well. And
a major Australian weakness now seeing the sunlight is a lack of wicket-taking
strike power on flat decks.

[**Herald Sun: Big wet Australia's only hope in second Ashes Test **][12]

**Will Swanton: **Scoreboards are the revealers of truth. Australia has played
six front-line bowlers in the opening Ashes Tests and they've been slapped
across the face with the collective figures of 5-1068 from just two innings.

Sometimes the truth is too ugly for words. Sometimes words aren't required.
Just look at the numbers.

England was 4-551 - a lead of 306 runs - when the heavens opened. Australia
got what it needed. Rain, and lots of it. The first drops fell at 2.45pm. The
covers came out at tea and stayed there.

The series is in limbo [but] England could retain the Ashes with wins in
Adelaide and Perth.

[**The Western Australian - England onslaught held up by rain**][13]

**Daniel Brettig: **Australia's players seem convinced the heavens offer their
only hope of salvation even as their captain Ricky Ponting was imploring his
men to conjure an escape from the dreadfully mismatched second Ashes Test.

Rain had done what Australia seemed incapable of doing by stopping the England
innings on their tea total of 4-551, an overall lead of 306.

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