England v Australia, 1st npower Test, Cardiff

Ricky Ponting's expression says it all


Monty Panesar and James Anderson denied Australia victory


Ricky Ponting is not amused as England's 12th man, Bilal Shafayat and their physio interrupt play during the final moments of the first Test, England v Australia


Marcus North continued Australia's top-order dominance at Cardiff as they moved into the lead


An Australian fan and his flag


Ricky Ponting went past 11,000 Test runs


Simon Katich celebrates his first hundred against England and eighth in Tests


Kevin Pietersen and Paul Collingwood bring up their century partnership


Time for the talking to stop. Ricky Ponting and Andrew Strauss pictured with the urn ahead of the first Test at Cardiff on Wednesday


Days Review:


DAY 1:

The match between england and Australia all over world knows about this Ashes battle this is not any causual match they plye for pride both teams never let down at any point of time.1st test match in that series has been started in Cardiff.England ended up the day with som good total of 336/7.Petereson played a good knock of 69 and coolingwood played as well a good innings with 64 runs.Both these batsmen kept the team to reach a good total with there partnership.another good knock from Prior England wicket keeper reached his 50 runs.we have to wait and see what will be the game on day 2.

Day 2:

On day 2 England came to bat they are allout for 435 runs on 2nd day and Australia started of there 1st Innings they lost Hughes wicket and the captain came out to bat with Katich and both have settled in the crease both have put the Australia in top position on the end of Day 2.Katich came to the squad after the Big man Hayden gave his retirement.He is very good batsmen in the test cricket as well in ODIs also.He made is 1st Ashes century and 8th in his carier.On the other side Ricky Ponting highest centuries in Austrlaia side made and again he reaches his 38th Test hundred.With this Australia is in Good position in the 1st test on Day 2.

Day 3:

On day3 Australia hold the grip in the test match.Both the Batsmen Haddin and North finished there centuries and put the Austrlia in the TOP POSITION with the huge total of 674 runs they declared there 1st Innings on Day4.

Day 4:

Austrlai have declared there 1st Innings and put england to Bat for there 2nd innings and they lost 2 early wickets and kept pressure on the home Team.On day4 england finish the there 2nd innings with the loss of 2 wicket Petersend and Strauss in the crease.we have to wait and see the what will happen on Day 5.

Day 5:
They have started there Final day of the 1sy test match and they have lost there danger man petersen and captain strauss and they are in big trouble and collingwood played some good innings to keep the england withn some confidence.with collingwood flintoff and swann plyes for some time in the last session they lost 9 wickets and they have some 10 more overs left but for england they have only one wicket in hand Panesar and Andreson are in the crease they made some 16 runs partnership to put the england away from the loss in a dramatic situation.

Score Details :

England 1st Innings : 435 allout (Kevin Pietersen 69 & Paul Collingwood 64)

Autralia Bowling 1st Innings : (MG Johnson,NM Hauritz took 3 wickets each)

Austrlia Batting 1st Innings : 647 for 6(RT Ponting 150,SM Katich 122,North 125*,Haddin 121)

England Bowling 1st Innings : (A Flintoff 1 wicket Andreson 2 wickets)

England 2nd Innings : 252 for 9 ( Collingwood 71)

Australia 2nd Innings Bowling : (BW Hilfenhaus 3 wickets)

Match Is Drawn

Player of the match : RT Ponting (Australia)

England : Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Matt Prior (wk), Andrew Flintoff, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann,James Anderson,MS Panesar.

Australia : PJ Hughes, SM Katich, RT Ponting*, MEK Hussey, MJ Clarke, MJ North, BJ Haddin†, MG Johnson, NM Hauritz, BW Hilfenhaus, PM Siddle