Ashes series live2nd Test
England vs Australia at Lord'sEngland 425 & 311/6d
Australia 215 & 313/5 (86.0 ov)
Australia require another 209 runs with 5 wickets remaining
Stumps - Day 4
* Australia RR 3.63
* Last 10 ovs 43/0 RR 4.30
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Current time: 07:13 local, 06:13 GMT Test career
Batsmen Runs B 4s 6s SR This bowler Last 10 ovs Mat Runs HS Ave
*Michael Clarke (rhb) 125 198 13 0 63.13 22 (38b) 17 (33b) 49 3413 151 49.46
Brad Haddin (rhb) 80 126 10 0 63.49 11 (15b) 26 (27b) 17 1130 169 43.46
Bowlers O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s This spell Mat Wkts BBI Ave
*Andrew Flintoff (rf) 17.0 3 49 2 2.88 79 6 0 3-0-14-0 77 222 5/58 32.41
James Anderson (rfm) 18.0 3 81 0 4.50 71 13 0 3-1-12-0 39 134 7/43 34.23
Recent overs 1 1 . . . . | . 4 . . . 1 | 1 . . . . 1
Current partnership 185 runs, 47.2 overs, RR: 3.90 (Haddin 80, Clarke 94)
Last Bat MJ North b Swann 6 (25b 1x4 0x6) SR: 24.00
Fall of wicket: 128/5 (38.4 ov); Partnership: 8 runs, 6.0 overs, RR: 1.33 (North 6, Clarke 2)
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Michael Clarke and Brad Haddin kept alive Australian hopes of a world-record run chase with an unbeaten partnership of 185 that both stunned and enthralled the capacity Lord's crowd. No sooner had England appeared set on an inexorable march towards their first Ashes victory at Lord's in 75 years than the Australian middle-order duo produced a stoic, chanceless sixth-wicket stand to drag the tourists back into the contest.
The evening session may have belonged to Australia, but advantage still rests with England. Australia require another 209 runs for victory, having been set an unprecedented target of 522 by Andrew Strauss, and will resume on Monday acutely aware that they are one wicket away from delving into their bowling stocks.
But after a stirring fourth day, during which Australia made the impossible merely improbable, few would dare discount their chances entirely. Australia's effort is already the fourth highest fourth-innings total in Lord's 125 year history and 105 runs shy of Test cricket's highest ever successful run chase. And this with five wickets still in hand. After being offered the light in the 86th over, Clarke placed his arm around Haddin as he strode from the playing surface, satisfied that their efforts had saved a day that, hours earlier, had lurched heavily England's way. Five Australian wickets, three of which were contentious in the extreme, had fallen for just 128 runs before tea, and an expectant Lord's crowd awaited an Andrew Flintoff-inspired England to complete a quick kill.
But the script changed dramatically thereafter. Clarke, perhaps Australia's most consistent batsman of the past 18 months, successfully navigated his way through a testing early period and appeared impressively immune from the suffocating atmosphere created by Flintoff and Graeme Swann. The Australian vice-captain notched his half-century in near even-time, highlighted by several sublime drives and crisp stroke play off his pads.
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