Monday 12 August 2013

Australia need 288 to win the 4th Test with five sessions to play

Australia need 288 to win after the first session on day four of the 4th Investec Ashes Test at the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground.

Centurion Ian Bell and Tim Bresnan saw off the old ball, but when Ryan Harris was introduced into the attack with the new ball he removed Bell for 113 clean bowling him with a delivery that kept low.

Matt Prior arrived at the crease but lasted only a ball as he was bowled by a great delivery from Harris, that bounced and struck his elbow before clattering into the stumps.

Stuart Broad survived the hat-trick ball from Harris, unlike his previous Ashes experience when Peter Siddle got three in a row in Brisbane in 2010.

Bresnan and Broad took the attack to the Aussie bowlers as the racked up several boundaries before Harris returned to bounce out Broad with a snorter of a delivery, which hit the top of the bat and rose in the air before being claimed by Steve Smith for 13.

England were scoring crucial runs as they took their lead past the 250 mark with Bresnan and Swann at the crease as Jackson Bird and Nathan Lyon took punishment from the pair.

However, it was that man Harris again who returned to the attack to dismiss Bresnan five short of his half-century as he caught and bowled the Yorkshireman leaving the Three Lions 317-9.

Swann hit three more flashing boundaries before number 11 James Anderson fell for a duck as he edged the ball from Lyon behind to Brad Haddin.

Aussie openers Chris Rogers and David Warner came out for a tricky 15 minute spell and saw off the England attack despite one scare, as the Three Lions reviewed an lbw shout from Broad against Rogers, but the ball pitched outside leg stump, as they tourists finished 11-0.

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