Australia vs England Ashes 2010 Live Score and Highlights: The Ashes score and highlights of Australia vs England (Aus vs Eng) are updated here. Graeme Swann collapsed the Australia batting order.
Ashes Second Test Final Score: Australia 245 & 304 (99.1 ov) and England 620/5 dec.
England won the second Test in the Ashes 2010 against Australia. England bowlers have done well and accompolished in collpasing Australia batting order. England bowler Graeme Swann played an important role in the England’s win.
On Day 1, Australia won the toss and decided to bat. Australia finished their first innings at 245. England batsmen have performed well and got grip on the second Test. England declared their first innings at 620/5. England batsmen’s Keven Petersen (227), Alastair Cook (148), Jonathan Trott (78) and Ian Bell (68) are remained as top scorers.
Australia started their second innings and could not rebound in the second innings too. Finally, Australia finished their second innings at 304 runs on Day 5.
Moral victory
With no chance of a run chase in the remaining 41 overs, Australia coasted along to 107-1 by the time the two sides shook hands on a draw.
While the result means the series is all square heading to Adelaide for the second Test, which gets underway on Friday, England can at least claim a moral victory having been behind the eight ball at the end of the third day.
They had come out to bat second time around facing a 202-run deficit and needing to last at least four sessions at the crease to have a hope of avoiding defeat.
In the end they accomplished the goal with aplomb; the top three in the order scored centuries in the same innings for only the second time in England's history and the aggregate of 517 runs per wicket set a new world record.
Cook posted the sixth highest score by an Englishman against Australia, registering his maiden Test double ton as he spent over 10-and-a-half hours at the crease.
The Essex opener did appear to escape on 209 when Ricky Ponting claimed a catch low down at short mid-wicket. The muted celebration may have had more to do with the match situation than any debate over the catch, but nonetheless the final decision was still passed on to the third umpire.
The Australia captain was left nonplussed with the 'not out' verdict given by Tony Hill; television footage doing little to discover if the ball had carried or not.
Cook had hit 26 fours in his marathon knock by the time his skipper, Andrew Strauss, who himself had made 110 on day four, decided enough was enough and put the Australian bowlers out of their misery.
Ashes form
Trott had played his part in the alliance, moving on from 54 not out overnight to post his second Ashes ton in as many matches, following on from his three-figure score on debut in the decider at the Oval last year.
The right-hander did, however, have a let-off on 75 when Michael Clarke put down a simple catch at first slip off the bowling of Shane Watson.
In the end only the part-time off-spin of Marcus North made a breakthrough in the innings for the hosts. Mitchell Johnson posted match figures of 0-170 from 42 overs to go along with a duck with the bat and a dropped catch in the field.
Some of his fellow seamers didn't fair much better. Ben Hilfenhaus never made an impact after dismissing Strauss with the third ball of the match while not even Peter Siddle - the hat-trick hero on day one - could make an impact on what became a graveyard for all bowlers.
Left with nothing to do but bat out time after toiling in the field, Australia lost opener Simon Katich for just four off the bowling of Stuart Broad.
Any slender hopes of an unlikely England win quickly disappeared, though, as Ponting cruised to 51 not out from 43 balls before agreeing to end play an hour early, meaning Watson (41no) missed out on a half-century.
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