T1D2 - Australia 603/9d (Ponting 196), England 53/3

Well, if it's any consolation, we bowled better. Both Harmison and Anderson managed to get wickets, though the former was thanks to Warne gloving an awful strangle down the leg side to Jones. Flintoff continues where he left off yesterday, Boys' Own hero again, finishing up with four wickets. It'd have been a lot better if the tail, specifically Stuart Clark and Brett Lee, hadn't wagged quite so successfully, but even so, 600 was never that unlikely on this track.

Strauss will be kicking himself, getting out hooking: Brett Lee copped a raking from Hussey's studs as they both went for the catch, so you /could/ claim first blood for England there. :) Cook out next ball won't have helped Strauss' mood - or Fletcher's - nor will Collingwood getting foxed by a genuinely good ball not that long later.

53/3.

It could be a long summer. But then, we probably thought that at the end of the Lords' test last summer.