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rain or no rain, Aus have been well and truly STUFFED.
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The knives are out for Australia…
Sydney Morning Herald
Rot continues: can’t bat, can’t bowl and now we can’t field
BATTING and bowling talent were key factors in Australia becoming the dominant Test team of the past 20 years. So, too, was fielding.
Australia’s uncharacteristic struggles with bat and ball of late have been well documented but, based on this Ashes series so far, the malaise has also infected the fielding.
Brad Haddin’s spill behind the wicket yesterday of Jonathan Trott shortly before tea was the 11th chance Australia squandered in seven days of cricket against England.
re: The Ashes 2010/11 + Australia v England 7-match one-day series
Same articles for pakistan . Change pakistan to australia every thing else is same.
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Nice Article 
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Stumps Day 4
Australia 245 & 238/4 (79.2 ov)
England 620/5d
Australia trail by 137 runs with 6 wickets remaining
Barring significant rain interruption on the last day, England should win
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England should win from here just remove Haddin and Hussey and go for the win 
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Hazraat kal sham ko Aus Cricket k QUUL parhey jaeen gaai. Aap bhi shami ho ker sawab-e-dareen hasil kareen
PS: Even if Aus salvages a draw here, they are truly and throughly pinned down...
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Hussey, North and Haddin will bat long tom, and this will be draw.... God damn these British chaps. I am only supporting them against India next year thats it.
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Looks like North also got his susar in Aus selection panel like Damad jee 
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wow…never saw kangaroos getting whipped like this before…
Ponting and his side have been shown the dust by POMS…
the words “ashes” have a new meaning for the Ozs… 
its the the team’s Ashes, they have been cremated…
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^^Farhat Played 75 innings and scored 3 centuries to score total of 2327 runs. and i bet 1500 of those came from edges.
North played 33 innings and scored 5 centuries to score total of 1123 runs. Unfortunately most of his edges went to keepers gloves. Only thing common between them is there highest "128." Please dont insult North by comparing him to Farhat. Hopefully he will score in next innings and shut few mouths.
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^^Farhat Played 75 innings and scored 3 centuries to score total of 2327 runs. and i bet 1500 of those came from edges.
North played 33 innings and scored 5 centuries to score total of 1123 runs. Unfortunately most of his edges went to keepers gloves. Only thing common between them is there highest "128." Please dont insult North by comparing him to Farhat. Hopefully he will score in next innings and shut few mouths.
Oh really whenever he is needed he just dont score
i bet he will be out before 30 tomorrow :D
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Where is Usman Khwaja? Hopefully we get to see this talented kid who is averaging 50+ in domestic some time in the near future!
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Mike Hussey OUT!!!
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Haddin gone too!!! Australia 286/6, still 89 runs behind
Anderson to Haddin, OUT, 84.6 mph, Anderson gets his man! Finally this is full enough to drag Haddin forward, the full length means the ball can swing and nibble off the pitch, flicks a faint edge as Haddin aims a drive and Prior does the rest. England are through to the tail now!
*BJ Haddin c †Prior b Anderson 12 (21b 2x4 0x6) SR: 57.14 *
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And it gets worse for Australia 286/7
Anderson to Harris, OUT, gone! King pair for Harris! Anderson aimed the inswinger at a full length, Harris left alone and it crashed into the front pad bang in front. Harris reviewed but it only confirms the worst. Harris becomes only the second Australian ever to bag a king pair.
*RJ Harris lbw b Anderson 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00 *
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Australia 304 all out, effectively 6/66 in 20 overs today
England win by an innings and 71 runs
Swann 5/91
cricinfo:
England take a priceless 1-0 lead with three Tests to be played. Swann had been identified as the man to spearhead England's push on the fifth day and he's done just that, finishing with 5 for 91to bowl England to their 100th Test win over Australia. The hosts suffer the ignominy of their first innings defeat at home since their capitulation to the West Indies at Perth in 1993 and, to be brutally honest, it's hard to see them bouncing back to win two of the next three games to reclaim the urn. Stranger things have happened, of course, but Australia will need something truly inspirational.
Andrew Strauss's decision to bat on on the fourth morning is vindicated by the eventual result - the 69 runs added tallying nicely with the victory by an innings and 71. England will be slighted dented by the loss of Broad, but they've got the likes of Chris Tremlett, Ajmal Shahzad and Tim Bresnan as back-up. Tremlett, in particular, could be a real handful at the WACA, while Shahzad has the ability to reverse the old ball.
"We got off to a shambolic start to the Test match, and it was always going to be hard to fight back from there," says Ricky Ponting. "We needed to make a big score in the first innings and 245 was never going to be enough. We also put down a few crucial catches in the field. It's just those little things which are literally slipping through our hands at the moment, you can't give good players second and third chances. We've got to go away and do some soul-searching. England have kept us under real pressure, and we've got to find a way to cope with that."
"You're always thinking back to what happened here four years ago and asking 'could Australia find a way to get back into this game?' but we were pretty clinical out there. A lot of boxes ticked in this game," says Andrew Strauss, adding the obligatory comment about being careful of complacency. "When you're confident things start happening for you as a matter of course, you don't have to push it," he says of England's dramatic start to this Test with the ball.
"Even when Hussey was getting them back in the game, they weren't going anywhere and we always find if we could just get one wicket we'd be ahead again. Swann did a great job of strangling the batsmen in the first innings too. Batsmen like to score runs, and if they can't they get a bit edgy," adds Strauss, who also makes special mention of how pleased he is that KP has his swagger back.
"We've got some good momentum, but the guys are pretty tired after back to back Tests and certainly some of the bowlers will need a rest. And maybe some of the batsmen too. The loss of Broad will be very big, he's been a senior bowler for us, but we've got three guys bowling well and who are all chomping at the bit to get out there. We'll take into account how they bowl at the MCG, but I do have some plans.
"To put the ghosts of four years ago to bed is really good for us. The last six days or so have been outstanding cricket for us."
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hahahhaa... aussies got rapped.... PUNTER... TERII TO... PUNTERRR !!!!! hahahha..
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Good job Swann and Eng :k:
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The Aussies suffered their first innings defeat at home since their humiliation to the West Indies at Perth in 1993. 
..keep it up English Cheeta’s 