Gilchrist plunders England to set up series victory

Dec 16, 2006

39.4 Harmison to Ponting, OUT, gone! At last Harmison pitches it up for the first time this morning, the ball takes the edge of Ponting's indecisive drive and Jones takes the catch. That's the length•Getty Images

Matthew Hayden square-drives during his 92...•Getty Images

And Panesar celebrates the wicket•AFP

$62.2 Panesar to Clarke, no run, ooh, well bowled, flighted and dipping, drawing Clarke into the stroke. He overbalances and is out of his crease and that's a missed chance as Jones takes a fraction of a second too long with a fumble in the gloves$

62.2 Panesar to Clarke, no run, ooh, well bowled, flighted and dipping, drawing Clarke into the stroke. He overbalances and is out of his crease and that's a missed chance as Jones takes a fraction of a second too long with a fumble in the gloves•Getty Images

87.4 Harmison to Hussey, FOUR, a cracker of a flat-batted pull flies straight through mid-off and Hussey brings up his fifth Test century, his first against England, and it's on his home ground, too. He knows he's made it as soon he hits it because he raises both arms aloft and charges down the pitch. 148 balls, 12 fours•Getty Images

A wagon wheel of Gilchrist's blitz•Hawk-Eye Innovations

41.5 Harmison to Hussey, FOUR, just short! That was brilliantly bowled from Harmison, just moving away from Hussey's meek prod outside off and the ball dies on Strauss at first slip, the ball flying through him and Flintoff at second•Getty Images

...and sweeps fine as the lead grows•Getty Images

58.4 Panesar to Hayden, OUT, GOTTIM. Turn and bounce from Panesar, moving right back into the left-hander Hayden who moves back to give himself room to cut. He attacks the ball hard and a thick edge flies to Collingwood at first slip and he parries it into the air before clinging on at the second attempt. A chink, just a chink mind, of light for England now and Hayden knows it too, punching the air in disgust as he walks off•Getty Images

67.4 Harmison to Hussey, 2 runs, dropped; the bouncer, he hooks and miscues it to a short fine leg. Three, including Jones, converge on it in a pincer movement - Jones races after it, calls for it (well, he does have the gloves), dives and gets his hands to it before spectacularly failing to catch it. And there's Hussey's fifty. Another one. He's absurd.•AFP

106.3 Panesar to Gilchrist, SIX, shouts of 'Catch' which I hope can be heard from the man in Row V. He comes down the track, eyes bulging and straight drives that like a rocket. Seeing it like a football, hitting it like a golf ball. Spectators look out•Getty Images

111.1 Harmison to Gilchrist, 2 runs, driven to long-on and that's the second-fast Test hundred. A quite brilliant effort, privilege to watch it. The balcony are standing, the crowd are standing - and bowing. Great stuff•Getty Images

54.5 Panesar to Hussey, no run, Ooh, now, "That's got to be out," shouts David Gower, but Rudi Koertzen is unmoved by that loud shout. It was a lovely delivery, looping in there, and Cook in short on the off snaffles the ball as Hussey defends forward. But there was no bat, only pad ... in the umpire's opinion at least - replays look like there might have been a sliver of bat•Getty Images

And Panesar celebrates the wicket•AFP

Hussey hooks during his hundred•Getty Images

Gilchrist smashed 12 fours and four sixes•Getty Images

0.4 Lee to Strauss, OUT, poor judgement, this time, shocking in fact and Australia strike! Lee swung that one in at him again, the ball at full length, and for some inexplicable reason Strauss shoulders arms to that one. Plumb. Actually, on second thoughts (courtesy of the replay), that looked to be going over the top...•Getty Images