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Warne sets Aussies up for victory England crash to Adelaide defeat
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England crashed from probable draw to likely defeat on day five of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide. Australia won the second Ashes Test by six wickets and went 2-0 up in the series after bowling England out for 129 on day five in Adelaide.
They began the day 59-1 but were bowled out for 129, leaving Australia needing 168 to win from 36 overs. England lost nine wickets for 60 in 43 overs, with Shane Warne taking 4-49 and key batsmen playing some poor shots.
Shane Warne took four wickets and helped in a run out while Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee took two wickets each. Chasing 168 to win, Ricky Ponting (49) and Michael Hussey (61no) shared a third-wicket stand of 83 in 16 overs.
Andrew Strauss (34) was unlucky but Ian Bell (26) was run out while Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and Geraint Jones all fell to unnecessary shots. Ponting and Damien Martyn fell in quick succession but Michael Clarke joined Hussey to win with three overs left.
Last-wicket pair Paul Collingwood and James Anderson survived for 41 minutes but Anderson's dismissal, lbw to McGrath with the final ball before tea, made England's chances look bleak. No team in history has lost after declaring on a higher total than England's 551-6 batting first in a Test.
No team in the history of Test cricket has declared on a higher first innings total than England's 551-6 and gone on to lose. England now face the daunting task of winning two of the remaining three Tests over the next four weeks to tie the series and retain the Ashes urn, won amid triumphant scenes in September 2005.
A match that saw just 17 wickets in the first four days was turned on its head as four fell in the morning session. In baking heat, a sleepy crowd were expecting a draw as the final day began but Warne, who took 40 wickets in that last Ashes series, refused to let the match die.
In baking heat, a sleepy crowd were expecting a draw as England began the day 59-1 but Warne, who took 40 wickets in the 2005 Ashes series, refused to let the match die. Just 17 wickets fell in the first four days but four went down in the morning session to turn the game on its head.
Strauss's dismissal was unlucky as short-leg fielder Mike Hussey took a catch off pad rather than bat and umpire Steve Bucknor upheld the leg-spinner's half-hearted appeal. Andrew Strauss was unlucky to be given out for 34 as short-leg fielder Hussey took a catch off pad rather than bat and umpire Steve Bucknor upheld Warne's half-hearted appeal.
But batsmen were to blame for the wickets that followed, with Pietersen and Flintoff falling as they looked to re-establish the initiative with big shots. But England were to blame for the wickets that followed as they looked to re-establish the initiative with attacking play.
Collingwood called Bell through for a quick single but the more established batsmen hesitated in obeying as point fielder Clarke threw to Warne at the non-striker's end. Ian Bell (26) hesitated when called for a quick single as point fielder Clarke threw to Warne at the non-striker's end.
Pietersen has avoided sweeping his sparring partner Warne for much of this match. Kevin Pietersen chose the wrong time to begin sweeping Warne and was bowled round his legs by the fifth ball he faced, a delivery pitching out of the rough.
He chose the wrong time to unveil the stroke to the fifth ball faced in this key innings, though, and was bowled round his legs by a delivery pitching out of the rough. Flintoff perished to a poor shot off Brett Lee
Coming to the crease for what could have been a career-defining innings, Flintoff's footwork was lacking as he wafted outside off stump at Brett Lee and departed for two. Then, in what could have been a career-defining innings, captain Andrew Flintoff's footwork was lacking as he wafted outside off stump at Brett Lee and departed for two.
It is unlikely England coach Duncan Fletcher ate his lunch with a smile, even though two lower-order men included in the side for their batting would accompany Collingwood into the afternoon. It is unlikely England coach Duncan Fletcher ate his lunch with a smile, even though two lower-order men included in the side for their batting would accompany Paul Collingwood into the afternoon.
If he did, his reverie lasted just 10 balls after the break as wicket-keeper Geraint Jones groped at a full delivery a yard wide of off-stump and chipped to the gully fielder. If he did, his reverie lasted just 10 balls after the break as Geraint Jones groped at a Brett Lee delivery a yard wide of off-stump and chipped to the gully fielder.
Three overs later, Ashley Giles got an edge to a fizzing Warne leg break that was taken at first slip for a duck.Three overs later, Ashley Giles got an edge to a fizzing Warne leg break that was taken at first slip for a duck.
Steve Harmison was given out lbw offering no shot, although he was well forward to a bouncing delivery to give Glenn McGrath his first wicket of the match. Two marginal lbw decisions by umpire Rudi Koertzen accounted for Steve Harmison and - after a 41-minute resistance - James Anderson, and gave Glenn McGrath his first wickets of the match.
Collingwood stood firm, although he arguably allowed the tail too much of the strike by taking singles too readily. Australia lost openers Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden at the start of their chase but they were down more to over-aggressiveness than England ingenuity.
When he survived a drop off Warne, then punched him to the mid-wicket boundary in the penultimate over before tea it looked for a moment like things were turning back in England's favour. The home side changed gear as if batting in the middle of a one-day international and England let them, opting to try and restrict runs rather than putting fielders in catching positions.
But it was not to be as McGrath gained the benefit of a second marginal leg-before decision from umpire Rudi Koertzen. Flintoff hobbled through the pain of his sore left ankle to bowl nine overs then cut a sorry figure in the field as Hussey hit the winning runs.