England Falter As Tourists Fight Back ; Flintoff and Co Fall Short As Warne Comes to the Fore Again

Evening Standard - London › August 12, 2005

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ENGLAND banked their highest total yet of this redhot Ashes summer but knew they had let Australia off the hook at Old Trafford today. At 433 for six with home ground hero Andrew Flintoff and Geraint Jones flaying even Shane Warne, 500 looked more probable than possible for them in the Third npower Test.

But then, in absolute keeping with the up and down nature of this series, Warne picked up three cheap wickets, Jason Gillespie finally had a bit of joy and England fell away, oh so tamely, to 444 all out. Good but no call for cigars all round.

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England Falter As Tourists Fight Back ; Flintoff and Co Fall Short As Warne Comes to the Fore Again

The big letdown, of course, was Flintoff 's demise for 46. Having produced a perfect mixture of studious defence, hard hitting and good running, his 50th Tes...

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