This is Devon -- Stuart Broad took two wickets for no runs as Australia got off to a nightmare start in response to 238 all out on the second morning of the fourth Investec Test at Chester-le-Street. Broad (three for 23) saw off David Warner and Usman Khawaja with the score stuck on 12, and then added the prize scalp of Australia captain Michael Clarke as only Chris Rogers stood firm in a lunchtime 75 for three. As the ball moved around under cloudy skies, conspicuously more so than it had early yesterday, Broad made a virtue of a tight and testing line – especially to the left-handers – in an irresistible spell. A tentative Warner was undone by a delivery he appeared to want to leave. When he jammed down his forward-defence, it was too late as Broad zoned in on the top of off-stump to bowl him. Then Khawaja, badly out of form in this series apart from a second-innings 50 at Lord's, also paid for indecision – apparently trying but failing to leave, and getting an involuntary under-edge behind. In a stand of 37 with Clarke, Rogers survived only after two reviews both went his way in the same Broad over. England used up their first when Tony Hill gave the left-handed opener out lbw, before Hawk-Eye showed the ball had pitched outside leg. The second, two balls later, demonstrated a new vagary of the decision review system. Rogers called for a rethink on Hill's caught-behind decision, and Hotspot indicated impact with ball on pad only. When lbw therefore came into the equation, an 'umpire's call' simulated impact with the top of off-stump was no use to England – because the initial verdict was for a different mode of dismissal. Clarke had been the pillar of Australia's resistance in the drawn Test at Emirates Old Trafford – where England retained the Ashes with an unassailable 2-0 lead. But he could not make a significant contribution in the first innings here, flapping without foot movement at a wide ball and edging high to Alastair Cook at slip in the last of Broad's seven overs. There was no need for any DRS this time, and neither was there earlier when England number 11 James Anderson was bowled by Jackson Bird with the final ball of the second over as the hosts failed to add to their overnight total. Bird hit Anderson on the helmet, ducking into a bouncer, and followed up two balls later by comprehensively beating an attempted drive. The last-wicket stand had nonetheless accrued a handy 24, Anderson's share four fours in his 16, after England's specialist batsmen fell short of expectations.
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This is Devon -- Stuart Broad took two wickets for no runs as Australia got off to a nightmare start in response to 238 all out on the second morning of the fourth Investec Test at Chester-le-Street. Broad (three for 23) saw off David Warner and Usman Khawaja with the score stuck on 12, and then added the prize scalp of Australia captain Michael Clarke as only Chris Rogers stood firm in a lunchtime 75 for three. As the ball moved around under cloudy skies, conspicuously more so than it had early yesterday, Broad made a virtue of a tight and testing line – especially to the left-handers – in an irresistible spell. A tentative Warner was undone by a delivery he appeared to want to leave. When he jammed down his forward-defence, it was too late as Broad zoned in on the top of off-stump to bowl him. Then Khawaja, badly out of form in this series apart from a second-innings 50 at Lord's, also paid for indecision – apparently trying but failing to leave, and getting an involuntary under-edge behind. In a stand of 37 with Clarke, Rogers survived only after two reviews both went his way in the same Broad over. England used up their first when Tony Hill gave the left-handed opener out lbw, before Hawk-Eye showed the ball had pitched outside leg. The second, two balls later, demonstrated a new vagary of the decision review system. Rogers called for a rethink on Hill's caught-behind decision, and Hotspot indicated impact with ball on pad only. When lbw therefore came into the equation, an 'umpire's call' simulated impact with the top of off-stump was no use to England – because the initial verdict was for a different mode of dismissal. Clarke had been the pillar of Australia's resistance in the drawn Test at Emirates Old Trafford – where England retained the Ashes with an unassailable 2-0 lead. But he could not make a significant contribution in the first innings here, flapping without foot movement at a wide ball and edging high to Alastair Cook at slip in the last of Broad's seven overs. There was no need for any DRS this time, and neither was there earlier when England number 11 James Anderson was bowled by Jackson Bird with the final ball of the second over as the hosts failed to add to their overnight total. Bird hit Anderson on the helmet, ducking into a bouncer, and followed up two balls later by comprehensively beating an attempted drive. The last-wicket stand had nonetheless accrued a handy 24, Anderson's share four fours in his 16, after England's specialist batsmen fell short of expectations.
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