England sense Ashes victory in third Test

03 August 2009

England gave themselves a fighting chance of victory in the rain-hit third Ashes Test after claiming the prize wicket of Australian captain Ricky Ponting late on the penultimate day at Edgbaston.
Batting hero Flintoff shakes the hand of Swann after he dismissed Ponting.
Ponting came to the wicket after Graham Onions removed Simon Katich and did not last long as he was bowled for five by a sharply spinning off-break from Graeme Swann.
Makeshift opener Shane Watson and Michael Hussey battled to the close on 88 for two wickets, still trailing by 25 runs.
Earlier, retiring England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff found his best form with the bat with a near run a ball 74 to boost the home side to 376, a first innings lead of 113.
Stuart Broad also chipped in with a quickfire half century as England's high scoring rate saw them move into a winning position despite most of the first and and the whole of the third day being lost to the weather.
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Onions, who took four wickets in the first innings, got Katich to edge a full length ball to Matt Prior, but Swann's dismissal of Ponting at the end of a superb over capped a fine day for the home side.
Australia had enjoyed the better of a truncated morning session with the wickets of Andrew Srauss and Paul Collingwood and when Ian Bell went to an improved Mitchell Johnson for 53, England were 168 for five wickets. source: cnn.cm

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