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Just as they used to do so regularly with McGrath in their line-up, Australia then claimed two early wickets to leave England struggling on 20 for two, still trailing by 219 runs when rain washed out any further play at tea.Almost as soon as the new ball was taken Australia began to play more aggressively with 10 runs being taken off the first over from all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, while North scrambled a two off James Anderson to reach his century shortly before lunch.

Haddin took 13 off another Anderson over immediately after the interval and then brought the 600 up in style with a slog sweep off left-arm spinner Monty Panesar which cleared the mid-wicket boundary for six.Just as McGrath did all too often over the last decade, Australia exploited that situation with left-arm seamer Mitchell Johnson winning an lbw appeal after swinging the ball into Alastair Cook's front pad.

Ravi Bopara followed just seven balls later when he also tried to play across his front pad and umpire Billy Doctrove upheld an appeal for lbw from swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus even though television replays suggested the ball would have bounced over the stumps.