Australia tour of England and Scotland, 3rd Test: England v Australia at Birmingham

Marcus North brings up his half-century


Michael Clarke reached his second hundred of the series


Andrew Flintoff reaches his half-century


The injured Kevin Pietersen managed to dodge the rain at Edgbaston


Andrew Strauss tosses the coin, Ricky Ponting decides to bat


Shane Watson reaches his half-century
Days Review:

Another encounter between England and Australia in Ashes.This is the 3rd test in Edbeston.England already lead in the Ashes.Where as Australia is in full fire to make it to equal.But the weather conditions are not supporting the Australians where as england alos looking good to regains the Ashes trophy,There is one negative point in englandf side is that there dagereou8s wepon is out of this summer Ashes series.in his replacement IAN BELL into the side where he performed well to regain his spot in the tournment.On DAY1 Australia won the toss and Elected to BAT first.In there side They have replace huges with Watson allrounder in to the squad.Day1 only 30 overs happend and weather dissopoint the crowd and both the teams to have some good entertainment.On Day1 score is 126/1 Asutralia.Watson played a good innings and kept his name in all there minds as such to regains his spot in both the type of games.on the other side katich playeds a good innings and got out for 46 runs by Swann spinner who done the dammage in last test

Score Details:

Australia 1stInnings:263 allout(Watson 62*)

England Bowling 1stInnings:(JM Anderson 5 wickets,G Onions 4 wickets)

England 1st innings:376 allout( A Flintoff 74,AJ Strauss* 69)

Australia Bowling(BW Hilfenhaus 4 wickets)

Australia 2nd innings:375/5(SR Watson 34 notout,MJ Clarke 103notout)

England Bowling:(SCJ Broad 2 wickets)

Match is Drawn

Series England led the 5-match series 1-0