England stand on brink of Ashes glory as brilliant Bresnan 返すs call-up in style

By Lawrence Booth for the Daily Mail
報告（する）／憶測ing from Melbourne
Updated: 09:04 BST, 28 December 2010

An 優れた （一定の）期間 of seam and 逆転する-swing bowling from Tim Bresnan ripped through Australia’s 最高の，を越す order at the MCG today and took England to within touching distance of the Ashes.

England’s fifth-choice seamer at the start of the series, Bresnan made a mockery of the 階層制度 to （人命などを）奪う，主張する three wickets for two runs in 18 balls after Australia, needing 415 just to 避ける an innings 敗北・負かす, had reached 99 for 1 in their second innings.

By stumps, they were 169 for 6 and 直面するing up to the prospect of a third failed Ashes （選挙などの）運動をする out of four ? not to について言及する the very real prospect of a first series 敗北・負かす at home to England in 24 years.

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Delight: Tim Bresnan is 襲う after taking the 決定的な wicket of マイク Hussey

To Bresnan went the spoils ? arriving, one by one, in such quick succession that Australia barely had time to catch their breath.

First Shane Watson, having biffed his way to yet another Ashes 50, padded up to a 配達／演説／出産 that jagged 支援する in, with the 必然的な referral 示唆するing the ball would have clipped the 最高の，を越す of the 保釈（金）s.

Then Ricky Ponting, 戦う／戦いing for 評判 both as a captain and a batsman, ground out 20 runs in 72 balls as if in penance for his show of dissent on the second afternoon before dragging Bresnan の上に his stumps from the 73rd.

All over: Ricky Ponting leaves the field after 存在 bowled by Bresnan

Woe: Ponting looks glum (left) after his lonely walk 支援する to the dressing room

But the big prize （機の）カム in the next over when マイク Hussey failed to get over a cover-運動 and was 井戸／弁護士席 held low 負かす／撃墜する at short extra cover by Ian Bell for a duck. Suddenly, Australia were 104 for 4 and the Barmy Army dancing in the aisles.

Bresnan might have collected a fourth wicket two overs later when Steve Smith spooned a pull into the 脚-味方する and Chris Tremlett, lolloping in from 罰金 脚, just failed to reach the chance.

The Yorkshire all-rounder’s success was all the more welcome for England for 存在 so 予期しない.

含むd here at the expense of Steven Finn ? who left Perth as the 主要な wicket-taker in the series with 14 but also a profligate economy 率 of 4.30 ? he had already chipped in with two cheap first-innings wickets when he 乗る，着手するd on a （一定の）期間 that goes 負かす／撃墜する indisputably as his best moment as a cricketer to date.

If his first （一定の）期間 of 7-5-5-0 明らかにする／漏らすd a degree of 正確 that hasn’t always been 明らかな, then his second of 7-2-17-3 瀬戸際d on instant folklore.

Australia’s 小型の-崩壊（する） was 調書をとる／予約する-ended by two wickets which summed up their 苦境 in this game. First Phil Hughes was run out after 答える／応じるing with 理解できる hesitation to Watson’s poor call for a 選び出す／独身 into the covers.

Jonathan Trott, already basking in his undefeated 168 ? the cornerstone of England’s first-innings 513 ? 急襲するd to his left and 抑えるのをやめるd a perfect return to Matt 事前の, who took the ball in 前線 of the stumps and barely had to move his gloves to dislodge the 保釈（金）s.

The demise of Hughes for 23 was a cruel blow for an out-of-form opener trying to 正当化する his place in a team in the absence of the 負傷させるd Simon Katich. But this was no time for sympathy.

Then, with the scoreboard reading 134 for 4, Graeme Swann went 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the wicket to Michael Clarke ? who should have been stumped off the same bowler on 2 ? and induced a nervous poke into Andrew Strauss’s midriff in the gully.

With Ryan Harris ありそうもない to bat after 苦しむing a 強調する／ストレス fracture of his left ankle in the field before lunch, England may have harboured dreams of 保持するing the Ashes before stumps.

And those hopes 簡潔に （機の）カム to life again when Smith dragged an ugly pull off Anderson の上に his stumps for 38 to leave the home 味方する tottering on 158 for 6.

Main man: Shane Watson 最高の，を越す 得点する／非難する／２０d with 54 for Australia in their second innings

Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson saw out the day, but the end will surely not be long in arriving tomorrow.

Earlier, Trott ground on remorselessly as England turned their 夜通し 444 for 5 into 513 all out ? their highest 得点する／非難する／２０ at the MCG in 35 years.

Peter Siddle finished with his second six-wicket 運ぶ／漁獲高 of the series, 含むing 事前の for 85. But while that earned him a generous 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 賞賛 on his home ground, the standing ovation that 迎える／歓迎するd Trott’s 出口 felt more meaningful.

His 345-ball monument to 実体 over style took his Ashes 普通の／平均（する） into three 人物／姿／数字s and knocked into a baggy-green hat notions that he would be overawed in Australia.

Trott may 欠如（する） the ostentation of Kevin Pietersen and the grace of Bell, but England are lucky to have him.

トン up: Jonathan Trott takes the plaudits after his unbeaten 168 at the MCG

Fan-tastic: The jubilant Barmy Army mock Mitchell Johnson during day three