One of the most amazing test matches in history featured some remarkable momentum shifts.
Here is the road to England’s 14-run ashes first test win over Australia at Trent Bridge.
DAY ONE
*England lose their last five first-innings wickets to be all out for 215 soon after tea. Advantage Australia.
*In reply, Australia lose their first three wickets for three runs, to give England the upper hand. Australia are in a shaky position at 4-75 at stumps on day one.
DAY TWO
*The slide continues, with Australia losing 5-9 to be reeling at 9-117.
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*Teenage debutant Ashton Agar comes to the crease and, with Phil Hughes, they put on 163 to break the all-time Test record for the highest 10th-wicket partnership. Agar makes 98 from 101 balls for the highest individual score by a No.11 batsman. The pair turn a 98-run deficit into a 65-run lead. Australia once again hold the balance of power.
*England sink further into the mire at 2-11 in their second innings, after Jonathan Trott is the victim of a shocking DRS call. With a side-on HotSpot unavailable, third umpire Erasmus wrongly overturns the on-field not out call from Aleem Dar.
Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook score half centuries to settle nerves around Trent Bridge.
DAY THREE
*Game is on a knife’s edge. England are 6-218, a lead of just 153 when Stuart Broad joins Ian Bell at the crease.
*With England leading by 232, Broad is given not out by Dar despite whacking Agar to first slip. After James Pattinson earlier wasted a review, Australia cannot challenge the wrong decision. At the time, Broad is 37 and Bell 77.
DAY FOUR
*The pair go on to form a 138-run stand, with Bell making 109 and Broad 65. England’s final three wickets fall for 19 runs, but they have added 78 extra runs since the umpiring blunder to take supreme control.
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*Shane Watson and Chris Rogers pile on 84 for the first wicket to make a solid start to Australia’s chase of 311. A successful chase would be a new Trent Bridge record.
*Australia lose quick wickets, including another cluster of 3-3, to be left reeling at 6-164 and 147 still to get.
DAY FIVE
*Hope grows for Australia early on day five, with Agar and Brad Haddin putting on 43 to cut the target to 104.
*James Anderson strikes and Australia lose 3-24 to be nine down with 80 to get. England seemingly a matter of time from certain victory.
*A short time after smashing Steve Finn for three boundaries in one over, Haddin is given two lifelines when he survives a narrow run-out and is then dropped by Finn in the deep with Australia still needing 26.
*Haddin and No.11 Pattinson put on 65 for the final wicket to get Australia within 14. The most nail-biting of finishes has been set up. But all the momentum is with Australia and Haddin is in control on 71.
*Anderson has Haddin dramatically caught behind in yet another narrow DRS call.
*Game over.
*England take a 1-0 lead to Lord’s.
QUOTES
Michael Clarke: “All Australians would have loved to have seen a different result. But you talk about Test cricket – you’re not going to get many better Tests than what we have just seen.”
Alastair Cook: “I don’t think I’ve played in one in which the momentum has changed so quickly, so often. We’re obviously having little nightmares over their last-wicket stands in both innings. Clearly they are going to be disappointed, like we would have been, but it’s all set up nicely now for Lord’s.”
