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Ashes: This how England lost six wickets for nine

Brisbane: The first Ashes test that saw Australia recover from 100/5 to 295 all out, will be remembered for pathetic batting display by England who were scuttled for 136 on day two after tea. All

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Brisbane: The first Ashes test that saw Australia recover from 100/5 to 295 all out, will be remembered for pathetic batting display by England who were scuttled for 136 on day two after tea.






All was progressing to plan for England an hour after lunch on day two of the Ashes but round the corner was a collapse which would turn the first Test on its head at the Gabba.

This is how six wickets fell for nine runs:

1342 – 82/3: Kevin Pietersen had come through a barrage of early bouncers from Mitchell Johnson, only to clip Ryan Harris to midwicket for a tame end to his first innings in his 100th Test.

1409 – 87/4: Michael Carberry's patient vigil foundered on Johnson's pace and bounce from round the wicket as he fended a catch to second slip.

1415 – 87/5: Ian Bell's was a soft dismissal for a batsman of his undoubted world class as he became the first of Nathan Lyon's victims snaffled at short-leg.

1418 – 87/6: Matt Prior fell for his second golden duck at this venue in consecutive innings - three years apart. He edged Lyon on to his thigh-pad and into the hands of a jubilant short-leg. Aleem Dar did not detect the edge, but DRS did.

1425 – 89/7 Joe Root had no answer to England's troubles, steering an attempted drive into the slips off Johnson.

1435 – 91/8: Graeme Swann's departure just before tea - caught bat-pad off Johnson - meant England were struggling even to avoid the follow-on.