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Darren Lehmann has launched an extraordinary outburst against Stuart Broad, underlining his anger over Broad’s decision to not walk at a crucial juncture of the first Test

ESPNcricinfo staff21-Aug-2013Australia coach Darren Lehmann has, in an extraordinary outburst against England allrounder Stuart Broad, underlined his anger over Broad’s decision to not walk at a crucial juncture of the first Test by calling for Australian crowds to get at Broad in the return Ashes series later this year.”Certainly our players haven’t forgotten, they’re calling him everything under the sun as they go past,” Lehmann said in an interview to the TripleM station. “I hope the Australian public are the same because that was just blatant cheating. I don’t advocate walking but when you hit it to first slip it’s pretty hard.”Lehmann’s comments come a day ahead of the final Test at the Oval, with Australia striving to avoid an unprecedented fourth Test defeat in a Ashes series. It might have turned out to be a closer contest had Broad walked after edging into the keeper’s leg, with the ball then carrying to slip, in a tightly fought first Test. Instead, he stood his ground and was involved in a match-changing 138-run stand with Ian Bell for the seventh wicket.”From my point of view I just hope the Australian public give it to him right from the word go for the whole summer and I hope he cries and he goes home,” Lehmann said. “I just hope everyone gets stuck into him because the way he’s carried on and the way he’s commented in public about it is ridiculous.”He knew he hit it to slip. The biggest problem there is the poor umpire cops all the crap that he gets in paper and Stuart Broad makes him look like a fool. From my point of view it’s poor, so I hope the public actually get stuck into him.”Broad had re-opened debate about the incident by speaking unrepentantly and brazenly about it earlier in the week. “Yes, I knew I’d hit it,” he said. “But if you go through the series and look at the Australian players who have nicked it and not walked you could name several — Warner, Rogers, Khawaja, Smith, Clarke, Agar. I mean it’s quite a lot of players for it to be a big issue. Why are people picking on me? Well, it’s the way our media works I suppose.”It’s a bit silly when people say I edged to slip because it was actually an edge to the keeper that went off his gloves to slip. I went down the other end and Ian Bell said, “What’s happened there? I didn’t hear anything”. And Agar asked me if I’d nicked it because he wasn’t sure. It wasn’t as clear-cut as everybody thought.”By deciding to stand his ground, Broad said he had demonstrated the hard-edged attitude that Australia had used to great effect against England in previous years. “Australian cricket has a win-at-all-costs mentality whereas in England it can be ‘let’s shake hands and have a beer’,” he said. “Maybe that’s why they won non-stop for 20 years against us but there’s one thing for sure about this England team and that is we’re tough.”We’ve come through tricky times and have stood up to be counted. We do have a win-at-all-costs mentality. We’ve been accused of all sorts of things this summer, like the tripe about tape on our bats, but that’s not what the series will be remembered for. It’s winning that will be remembered.”

Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, termed the seven-wicket win against Pakistan in the first ODI as “awesome” and said “he couldn’t be happier”

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Aug-2013Zimbabwe celebrated their 100th ODI at the Harare Sports Club with a seven-wicket victory against Pakistan, a win Brendan Taylor, the Zimbabwe captain, termed as “awesome” and said “he couldn’t be happier”. The success also ended Zimbabwe’s 15-year wait for a win against Pakistan.”To beat the quality team that they’ve got shows we’re doing the right things,” Taylor said. “It just shows that if our top-order batsmen come off, it lays that foundation. Our seam bowlers today were exceptional. There is room for improvement, we dropped some simple chances.”We were badly beaten by India a couple of weeks back, so to come out with that sort of performance shows a lot of character.”Zimbabwe’s bowlers kept up the pressure on the Pakistan batsmen and restricted them to 244, which was about 20 less than what Taylor had expected to chase. Taylor, however, stressed on the need for the team to remain focused as he expected Pakistan to hit back hard.”We have put in the hard work, but this is only one match out of the three. So there is no need for complacency,” he said.Zimbabwe coach Andy Waller also praised the team and said the hard work the group has put in the last two months is starting to show results.”It was a good win. We have put up a huge amount of work in the last two months,” Waller said. “I knew it would come good, I believed in my players. I think the big turning point was the way we played the T20s. Our batters showed they could handle quality bowling. They went into the game with a lot of self-belief and that made all the difference.”We are trying to keep wickets in hand, that’s our gameplan, because we have players like Sean Williams, Elton [Chigumbura] and Malcolm Waller who can get the runs required later.”The Zimbabwe openers put up a century opening stand that set the platform for the chase. Hamilton Masakadza was the top-scorer with 85, while Sibanda also registered a half-century.”I always knew the wicket gets better in the afternoon, so we just thought the longer we would be together, the better it would be for the team,” Masakadza said. “It flattened out after the first ten overs.”Zimbabwe have a chance to complete a series win when they meet Pakistan in Harare on Thursday.”We know how good Pakistan are and we know the quality of their players, we know they are going to come back harder on us,” Waller said. “But we are not going to rest on our laurels. We need to perform better. We are not at our best yet. We got to enjoy the moment, but we have to come back harder in the next game.”

Lancashire have signed England’s limited-overs wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler

ESPNcricinfo staff30-Sep-2013Lancashire have signed England’s limited-overs wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler. The move had been widely expected after Buttler announced his decision to leave Somerset to pursue more opportunities as a keeper last week.Although he has established himself for England in ODI and T20 cricket, his progress with the gloves had been hindered by the presence of his international predecessor, Craig Kieswetter, at Somerset. The club were unwilling to guarantee Buttler the role of first-choice wicketkeeper in all formats and he was faced with a choice of playing as a specialist batsman or moving away from the county where he came through the ranks.The move will also give Buttler the chance to work with former England coach, Peter Moores, who was responsible for guiding Matt Prior, England’s Test wicketkeeper, in the early stages of his career at Sussex.Buttler said he was keen to develop his skills as a wicketkeeper batsman at Lancashire, who released Gareth Cross last week. “They have a strong squad and are very ambitious to build on this season’s achievement,” Buttler said. “The club has an exceptional coaching staff which will help me to continue to develop as a keeper-batsman.”Buttler came up through the Somerset academy system and made his first-class debut in 2009 against Lancashire. In 80 List A games, he has scored 2296 runs at an average of 51.02 and taken 74 catches. In first-class cricket, he has 2031 runs at 31.73 and has taken 82 catches.He made his ODI debut in February 2012 and has since played 19 games, scoring 298 runs and taking 30 catches and one stumping. He scored two eye-catching half-centuries in the recently completed one-day series against Australia, confirming his potential as an international batsman. In 25 T20 internationals, Buttler has scored 286 runs, since making his debut in August 2011.”It is great news Jos will be joining us and he will become part of a highly competitive squad,” Moores said. “His style of cricket will add value to the team in all formats of the game and his potential as a player is very exciting.”

Yorkshire won comfortably on the final day against Hampshire, despite the resistance of Lewis McManus and Will Smith and further demands from England

Paul Edwards at Headingley13-May-2015
ScorecardAdil Rashid took his match haul to eight wickets as Yorkshire won comfortably on the final day•Getty Images

For most of this match the alders and sycamores in the vicinity of Eden Crescent and Kirkstall Hill have offered a glorious portent of summer. “The trees are coming into leaf/ Like something almost being said,” wrote Philip Larkin, and yes, so they are. But the chaotic threshing of the unresting castles in the brisk westerly wind over the past few days might also be seen as a metaphor for the curious events at the ECB, and this, of course, is something in which Yorkshiremen are taking a sharp interest.Rather like a couple planning their weekly visit to the supermarket – Costcutter perhaps? – ECB officials are regularly shopping at Headingley at the moment. “We have to get an opener and that coach needs replacing,” they might say as they get into their four-door Fiasco and head north with the names of Adam Lyth and Jason Gillespie topping their list.But then suddenly, out of a sky as blue and fleece-fringed as that which domed above Leeds this lovely Wednesday, counties themselves sometimes have the temerity to try and control events. Many people were suggesting that this match wouldn’t last till lunchtime when play resumed on the final morning with Hampshire on 37 for 4 and their victory target of 449 as distant a prospect as the golds of autumn.

ECB still to contact Yorkshire over Gillespie

Yorkshire’s director of cricket, Martyn Moxon, has expressed irritation that Jason Gillespie was named as a candidate for the job of England coach without Yorkshire being informed first.
“It would be nice if you got to know these things first but it’s not easy for Andrew Strauss when he pushed on these matters and I don’t hold it against him,” Moxon said. “We’ve been assured that any if any approach happens, it will be done in the correct manner and we trust the ECB to do that.
“I think the ECB are aware that we want Jason to concentrate on his day job and they’ll respect that. We’ve got a week between our next two T20 matches, so if the ECB want to contact us regarding Jason, there’s potential for them to do that.”
Moxon also defended Yorkshire’s decision not to make Gillespie available for interview after the Hampshire game.
“It’s difficult for Jason to say anything. What we want to avoid is for him to be here saying, ‘No comment…no comment…no comment’. It’s better for him not to say anything until we’ve got something official. If Jason speaks to Andrew Strauss, we’ll then wait and see if it’s the right job for Jason or not.”
Moxon also expressed his views about the way in which the Kevin Pietersen affair had been dealt with. “Quite frankly, I think it’s bit messy,” he said. “I don’t know the ins and outs of Pietersen’s time with England or what’s been said to him but it just seems very messy and sad for the English game that we are now being seen as a bit of a laughing stock.”

When nightwatchman James Tomlinson played inside a ball from Adil Rashid and Sean Ervine nicked a good ball from Tim Bresnan to Jonny Bairstow behind the stumps, these predictions seemed good calls. Hampshire were then 67 for 6 within the first hour of play and it seemed that we were all just waiting for the last knockings. But amid all the understandable furore about Kevin, Jason and England, this game has also been notable for the quietly proficient first-class debut of Hampshire’s wicketkeeper Lewis McManus, who had already kept well and batted decently enough in the first innings.And now McManus made his finest contribution to the game as he resisted Yorkshire’s attack for 100 minutes either side of lunch. In company with Will Smith, McManus added 56 runs in 30 overs although by that stage nobody gave a fig about the runs. As Rashid bowled unchanged from the Football Stand End in the morning session, McManus resisted him with a quiet resolve and tight technique which bodes well for his future career in the game.The 20-year-old was eventually dismissed 20 minutes after lunch when he rather fished at a ball from Will Rhodes and nicked a catch to Bairstow. He had made 28 off 91 balls and given the final day of this game a fascination which few expected it would possess. Certainly his colleagues could not emulate him in the slightest. Gareth Berg and Andre Adams were removed by successive balls from Rashid, the latter well caught at backward square leg by Jack Brooks when sweeping. Then Fidel Edwards swished at Steve Patterson, edged a catch to Alex Lees at first slip and the game was done.Yorkshire move to third place in a Division One table which is assuming an interesting shape and Hampshire return south counting the cost of their avoidable bowling lapses and gifted wickets.Before long the outfield was filled with camera crews wanting to find out about national issues and great controversies. It was, perhaps, always thus. But for a few players, this match has taken on a greater significance. Rashid’s 4 for 48 in the second innings gave him match figures of 8 for 118 and suggested that his omission for the Barbados Test was, indeed, an error. Adam Lyth made 76 runs in two innings and looked in decent nick, albeit that he was roughed up by Fidel Edwards before being dismissed by the same bowler before lunch on Tuesday.Lyth will probably make his Test debut against New Zealand next week and, if he does well, his colleagues may see little more of him this summer. Perhaps, therefore, in addition to the usual songs of triumph, he might have regaled his team mates this afternoon with a chorus or two of that grand old Gracie Fields standard: “Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye”. This is, after all, been a week of grace and Gracie in this pleasant corner of Yorkshire and if Lyth is to face Mitchell Johnson and his chums, he may need all the good fortune available to him.

Even as England slid towards defeat at The Oval, there remained a thrilling sense of possibility in the air. Sadly, it was intermingled with the rain

Alan Gardner at Kia Oval12-Jun-20151:05

‘Duckworth-Lewis needs to evolve’ – Morgan

Even as England slid towards defeat at The Oval, there remained a thrilling sense of possibility in the air. Sadly, it was intermingled with the rain and when the umpires took the players off with a little more than six overs remaining, England seven wickets down and behind on Duckworth-Lewis-Stern, the boos from the crowd were not just because an evening’s entertainment was being curtailed – they carried with them a sense that England were being denied a chance of victory.England’s prospects had begun to look bleak when Eoin Morgan, who made 88 from 47 balls, was one of three wickets to fall in four overs, leaving England on 275 for 7, still 124 from victory. But Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett kept England in touch with the asking rate, until the point that rain began to fall with 54 required from 37 balls.When the players returned after a 50-minute delay, the equation had been reduced to 34 runs in 2.1 overs. Morgan said the message in the dressing room was “It’s our game to win” but despite Plunkett hitting England’s 14th six of the innings – equalling the record they set in the first ODI at Edgbaston on Tuesday – they eventually fell short.”Considering we got so close in the chase, it’s a little bit disappointing at the end,” Morgan said. “It’s a huge ask, not only to chase down 399 but to have 34 to chase in 13 balls, given that we set it up so deep, the guys were in and the momentum was with us – it was very disappointing that it did rain.”Asked if he thought that England had got the worst of the DLS method – an updated version of the original Duckworth-Lewis formula that was first used at the World Cup – Morgan indicated he thought the system could still produce unsatisfactory results. “I think it happens a lot in T20 cricket, probably not so much in 50-over cricket,” he said, “but I think as the game evolves as it has done, particularly in 50-over cricket, Duckworth-Lewis could be looked at.”Ross Taylor, who scored an unbeaten century as New Zealand piled up 398 for 5 in their 50 overs, said that the break had certainly helped his side, as they held their nerve when the teams got back out to level the series at 1-1.”When we did come off it was probably slightly in our favour, they still would have had to have batted very well,” Taylor said. “But definitely the rain did help us out, coming in and needing 34 off 2.1 overs, it’s a tough ask. The way Plunkett and Rashid batted, got themselves back in the game with a crucial partnership, if the rain didn’t come it could have been a different story.”Despite defeat, there were further encouraging signs for England after their 210-run victory earlier in the week. An 85-run opening stand between Jason Roy and Alex Hales got the innings off to a flying start, before Morgan provided further proof of his improved form during exhilarating partnerships of 63 with Ben Stokes and 96 with Jos Buttler.Morgan, electricity crackling through him as he repeatedly struck the spin of Nathan McCullum and Mitchell Santner over the ropes, was on course to smash the record for England’s fastest one-day hundred when he fell. That England, who will assess the fitness of Chris Jordan after he suffered a side strain while bowling, got so close was down to the sense of freedom – most notably with the bat – that Morgan said made up for the side’s relative inexperience.”We’re enjoying this brand of cricket and certainly having the guys in the changing room to play in that way naturally – not making it such a big deal,” Morgan said. “The guys are quite young, I think Liam Plunkett’s the oldest at 30, so there’s a huge amount of potential and talent to work with. That’s great for any captain and backroom staff.”

Peter Borren’s first List A century helped Netherlands to a comfortable 85-run win against PNG in Amstelveen

ESPNcricinfo staff24-Jun-2015
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsPeter Borren’s unbeaten 105 included five fours and three sixes•Getty Images

Peter Borren’s first List A century helped Netherlands to a comfortable 85-run win against Papua New Guinea in Amstelveen. Borren came in to bat in the tenth over at the score of 62 for 2, and remained unbeaten on 105 with five fours and three sixes, as he forged significant stands with each of his partners save one.Netherlands were put in to bat and lost Michael Swart in the second over for 2. Stephan Myburgh (34) and Ben Cooper (22) then added 57 in quick time, off 47 balls. Both of them were dismissed in the space of five balls, before a 42-run stand between Borren and Wesley Barresi consolidated the innings. PNG had the opportunity to contain Netherlands to a modest score when Michael Rippon was the sixth wicket to fall in the 42nd over, with the score at 211. But, Mudassar Bukhari ensured that wouldn’t happen with a 32-ball 51, which included four fours and three sixes. Along with Borren, he helped Netherlands finish with 297.In the chase, PNG lost early wickets and at one stage were 70 for 4 in the 17th over, but Sese Bau (41) and Kila Pala (56) shared a 66-run stand to keep them in the hunt. They again lost wickets in chunks and were eventually bowled out for 212 in the 41st over. Timm van der Gugten, Michael Rippon and Pieter Seelar picked up two wickets each.

A heroic rearguard from Peter Trego and Lewis Gregory saw Somerset through to a nervy draw after the team’s propensity to collapse returned on the final afternoon

Jeremy Blackmore at Taunton08-Jul-2015
ScorecardPeter Trego played a sensible knock to help Somserset hold off Sussex’s charge•Getty Images

A heroic rearguard from Peter Trego and Lewis Gregory saw Somerset through to a nervy draw after the team’s propensity to collapse returned on the final afternoon. Coming together after five wickets had fallen in as many overs, Trego and Gregory survived 42 overs in a stand of 120 runs to secure a draw from a match that looked to be heading Sussex’s way.The pair did well to curb their natural attacking instincts and, with men crowded around the bat, play the way the match situation demanded. They looked increasingly assured as the evening session went on, finding the middle of the bat but importantly keeping the ball down and piercing the gaps.Trego brought up his second half-century of the match, finishing on a magnificent, unbeaten 95, while Gregory, who has struggled with the bat lately, grew in confidence and reached 32 before he was out shortly before the close, his highest score of the summer.Sussex captain Ed Joyce was left to rue his decision not to have declared his side’s second innings closed earlier. After setting Somerset a notional 425 to win in 67 overs, Marcus Trescothick and Tom Abell put on 69 with few causes for alarm. But then as Sussex introduced the part-time spin of Ashar Zaidi and Luke Wells, who only started bowling legbreaks last year, Somerset imploded in a rush of blood.While there was turn to be had, three of the wickets were gifted to airy shots when there were plenty of runs on offer by playing straight and finding the gaps.Trescothick decided to target the spinners, taking no time to get a sighter against Wells before he attempted a slog sweep and was bowled for 33. Clearly not learning his lesson from his captain’s dismissal, Johann Myburgh went to paddle sweep the same bowler and top edged the ball to short-leg.Hildreth was possibly unlucky, coming forward to a full toss from to Zaidi which looped up for a caught and bowled chance. Abell, who played beautifully for his 36, pushed forward to one that turned from Wells and got an outside edge to slip. Finally Allenby was caught playing a loose drive outside off stump.Despite back-to-back wins in Somerset’s last two matches, concerns remain about the frailty of their batting. With Tom Cooper scoring a century for the seconds on Tuesday, there may be pressure on places for the game with Middlesex at the weekend.Matt Maynard, Somerset’s director of cricket, was clearly disappointed with his batsmen. “There were too many soft dismissals, some poor execution and poor shot choice,” he said. “It’s almost like we go through periods where we switch off as a team. It’s something we haven’t seen much of over the last few weeks, but it was apparent in this game and the guys have to be honest with themselves and be switched on for the full match.”There was almost a bit of complacency after the start Trescothick and Abell made. But, you see the way Trego and Gregory played, if you apply yourself, if you get stuck in, and understand that at times that’s how you have to play to save a game, even if it’s not your preferred style necessarily.”Matt Machan and Chris Nash had extended their mammoth stand to 290 in 58 overs, breaking the club’s third-wicket partnership record in matches against Somerset in the process. Machan had also been involved in the previous record, also set on this ground, two years ago in a stand with Michael Yardy.The pair carried on where they left off on Tuesday evening, scoring at exactly five runs an over, but without pushing on as expected towards an early declaration. Machan’s long vigil was finally brought to an end as he was bowled by the spin of Abdur Rehman for a superb 192. Rehman then won an lbw appeal against Craig Cachopa, oddly sent in ahead of Luke Wright, but these were just consolation wickets given the Sussex lead was already 382.Wright tried to expedite things, smashing three sixes off his first five balls from Rehman before rain and bad light brought an early lunch with the lead 402. It was something of a surprise when Sussex re-emerged after the interval to swing the bat for another nine balls, albeit to the tune of 22 runs.Sussex coach Mark Robinson said gauging the declaration had been a tricky decision. “The wicket has got easier to bat on, but there have been some very big run chases here so we were aware of the history,” he said.Craig Overton was absent during the remainder of Sussex’s innings as a result of concussion sustained following the bang on the head he received while batting on Tuesaday. He would have batted again if necessary and Somerset said his absence was purely precautionary.

Australia were skittled for 136 on the first day at Edgbaston, where James Anderson led a magnificent display of swing and seam bowling that made full use of the conditions

The Report by Brydon Coverdale29-Jul-2015
Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsHackneyed though the phrase is, this truly was a good toss to lose for Alastair Cook. There was grass on the pitch and cloud overhead when the coin was flipped, but neither captain was prepared to send the other in to bat. However, Michael Clarke’s desire to play from the front led to Australia being skittled for 136 on the first day at Edgbaston, where James Anderson led a magnificent display of swing and seam bowling.Anderson claimed 6 for 47, the fourth-best figures of his Test career, as England ran through Australia using only three bowlers. In his first Test for more than two years, Steven Finn collected two important wickets in the opening session, and Stuart Broad chipped in with two later in the innings. By stumps on a rain-affected day, England were three runs from overhauling Australia’s total.There were shades of Boxing Day 2010 about proceedings. On that occasion, Anderson picked up four wickets as Australia were rolled for 98. But there they had been sent in. In Birmingham, Clarke backed his batsmen, and the move backfired. Chris Rogers was the only man who seemed capable of handling the conditions. He played the ball late and punched it along the ground to score 52, but had no support of note.On Boxing Day, though, England closed at a crushing 157 for 0, not only well ahead but with 10 wickets in hand. At Edgbaston, they went to stumps on 133 for 3, with Joe Root on 30 and Jonny Bairstow on 1. When rain arrived to end the day after only 65.4 overs, Ian Bell must have been kicking himself. Just one over prior he had thrown his wicket away for 53.Bell had advanced to Nathan Lyon and tried to thump him down the ground, but succeeded only in skying a catch to David Warner at midwicket. It had been an encouraging innings for Bell in his move back up to No.3, full of crisp drives and confident strokeplay. On two separate occasions he struck three fours in an over, once off Josh Hazlewood and once off Mitchell Starc, and his innings could have been so much more.James Anderson got rid of David Warner early•Getty Images

In the end, it wasn’t even clear if Ian was “Belly of the Day”. He had strong competition from Adam Voges’ stomach, which took two catches. The first came when Adam Lyth drove at a wide one from Hazlewood and at slip, Voges fumbled the ball out of his hands and into his tummy, where he managed somehow to cling on. But an even more remarkable take was still to come.Cook was beginning to worry the Australians and had 34 when he pulled a short ball from Lyon off the meat of the bat only to see it rocket into the stomach of Voges at short leg. Such was the force of the shot that the TV cameras panned out to the midwicket boundary in expectation, but the ball had somehow stuck in Voges grasp, his hands completing the catch that his belly had really taken.Australia needed some luck to help them back into the match after a difficult day with the bat. They posted 72 for 3 in a rain-affected first session and while England were clearly on top, it was nevertheless a platform from which Australia might have hoped to build a solid total. Instead, like an over-indulgent uncle on Christmas Day, they suffered a post-lunch slump from which they could not be roused.Cannabis lamps had been used to prepare the pitch, which fittingly had plenty of grass and left the Australians in a haze. Their remaining seven wickets fell for 64 runs in the second session as Anderson ran through the middle order. England’s bowling was masterful, the ball swinging and seaming just enough to flick edges and cause doubt in the minds of the batsmen.They literally did not know how to leave well enough alone. Voges (16) and Starc (11) were both caught behind toe-edging when they decided too late to leave a swinging delivery. Clarke had been lucky to survive a similar shot that ran away for four. Peter Nevill shouldered arms to an Anderson pearler that moved in instead of out, and clattered the top of off stump.Anderson started the procession when he straightened one just enough to have Warner lbw for 2 in the third over, a futile review from Warner notwithstanding. Finn then showed why he earned a recall when he had the in-form Steven Smith caught at slip for 7 and Clarke bowled by a fullish ball for 10, both to deliveries that moved away slightly.Rogers shuffled around and bunted runs here and there, a few classy drives through the off side among his highlights. But once Voges fell shortly after the lunch break, nobody threatened to stick with Rogers for any length of time. Anderson enticed Mitchell Marsh into an expansive drive wide of off, which led to an edge behind for a duck, and Mitchell Johnson gave Anderson his fifth when he edged to fourth slip.A second rain delay interrupted shortly after Rogers posted his half-century, and it did him no favours. On 52 he was trapped lbw by Broad coming around the wicket, and another review achieved nothing but confirming that the umpires were in form as fine as the England bowlers. A few tail-end boundaries helped the total along but Anderson completed his six-for when he had Lyon chopping on for 11.Australia had lasted 36.4 overs, and Clarke might have been left wishing he had called heads instead of tails, for it was not especially a good toss to win.