Ashes 2010-11: The best pictures from day four of the fifth Test

Paul Collingwood has indeed retired. Ideally he won't get a chance to have one, last, glorious Test knock, but it would be kinda nice if he did. In the meantime, I might liberally sprinkle tonight's MBM with good memories. Anyway, cricket! Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

141st over: England 489-7 (Prior 55, Bresnan 0) Johnson with the first over, just missing Bresnan's outside edge with his final ball Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

50th over: England 524-7 (Prior 79, Bresnan 9) Beer comes on, but there doesn't seem to be great encouragement for him Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

159th over: England 547-7 (Prior 90, Bresnan 21) Since the first couple of overs this morning, the level of comfort enjoyed by England's batsmen has been astonishing. They'll be coming out in slippers next Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

160th over: England 561-7 (Prior 95, Bresnan 31) Bresnan boshes Smith's second ball straight down the ground for a one-bounce boundary, then does it again off the last. This could be turning into the most embarrassing session of the series for Australia. There's nothing there at the moment. No passion, spirit, or apparent ability Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

161st over: England 567-7 (Prior 101, Bresnan 31) Australia persevere with their two-spinner policy, and Prior duly trundles to his century from 109 balls with a simple four off a loose Beer ball Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

163rd over: England 573-7 (Prior 105, Bresnan 32) Still no sign of this new ball. I'm looking forward to seeing how England's bowlers do given a last chance to have a go at the Aussies, but starting to wonder if they might not get that chance. These two could just bat out the remaining five-and-a-bit sessions, at this rate Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

164th over: England 584-7 (Prior 111, Bresnan 35) Australia take the new ball, and hand it to Mitchell Johnson, whose lazy half-volley is smashed away by a rapidly emboldening (is that a word) Bresnan. Prior also scoops a boundary down past third man Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

WICKET! Bresnan c Clarke b Johnson 35 (England 589-8) Finally, a breakthrough. Given how unlikely it's looked for so long, Clarke does excellently well to take a diving catch at second slip and Bresnan's gone
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166th over: England 589-8 (Prior 116, Swann 0) The over is preceded by a long drinks break, with the Australian bowlers conducting a crisis meeting in the middle. When it gets going, Johnson bowls wide outside off-stump and a delighted Prior flashes hard for another boundary. That, presumably, was not the plan, though Bresnan's wicket improves matters slightly Photograph: KRYSTLE WRIGHT/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Prior's gone! No, hang on – it's a no ball! Again! Umpires reviewing this. It's very close ... He's out after all! Prior c Haddin b Hilfenhaus 118 (England 609-9) A slight edge chasing after a very poor ball from Hilfenhaus, the heel of whose foot turned out after several replays to have landed maybe two millimetres behind the line Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

172nd over: England 630-9 (Swann 32, Tremlett 3) There's something utterly desperate about Australia's situation, pushing them into optimistic reviews aiming to gift them a 10th wicket Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

170th over: England 629-9 (Swann 31, Tremlett 3) Swann's going to go down fighting. 20 runs off Johnson's over, including an attempted hook top-edged by Swann for six. It's humiliation piled on humiliation, with some embarrassment on top Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

So this is England's highest-ever score in a Test in Australia. Dear me, what kind of world are we living in where the England cricket team are doing this? And they only need 267 for the highest score in any Ashes Test Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

WICKET! England 644 all out (Tremlett c Haddin b Hilfenhaus 12) Tremlett tickles Hilfenhaus through to the keeper, and that's the end of a monstrous innings from England: 644 all out. Six hundred and forty four all out. Six hundred and forty four all out. Six hundred and forty four all out, etc and so forth. And 418 of those for the last five wickets. Who needs flowery prose when you have numbers like that? Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

So here we are. One way or the other, whether England win or Australia survive, this will probably be the last innings of the 'Can bat, can bowl, can field' tour. England should savour every moment of these five sessions, or however long it takes, because they may never experience anything as good as this again in their careers Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

Have some of that! Shane Watson starts the innings with seven runs off the first two balls: a disdainful pull over mid-wicket for four and a nice cover drive for three Photograph: Mark Nolan/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 46-1 (Watson run out 36) What a total shemozzle. Hughes turns Swann through mid-wicket; they take one and then Watson trots leisurely back for a second, completely oblivious to the fact that Hughes has not moved. Pietersen and Prior do the rest. What a daft way to get out, particularly because Watson was playing beautifully Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/Reuters

England are happy as Larry; Watson is as happy as Larry David. In Guardian Towers, Smyth and Burnton have an impromptu cackle-off. That was a shocking run out Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

WICKET! Australia 52-2 (Hughes c Prior b Bresnan 13) Phil Hughes's excruciating innings comes to an end, although it took a very nice delivery from Bresnan to get rid of him. It bounced from a length and left him a touch as well. Hughes had to play in his danger area outside off-stump and got a thin edge to Prior, who just held on to the catch Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Swann gets one to bounce nastily on Khawaja, who does extremely well to get on top of the ball and drop it short of the close fielders. He's getting an invaluable examination here, and he's handling it pretty well
Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 117-3 (Khawaja c Prior b Anderson 21) That's wicket No22 of the series for Jimmy Anderson, although it was a pretty tame dismissal Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

WICKET! Australia 124-4 (Clarke c Prior b Anderson 41) This is absolutely magnificent bowling from Jimmy Anderson. Quite stunning. Clarke is furious with himself but Anderson was just too good there Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

WICKET! Australia 161-5 (Hussey c Pietersen b Bresnan 12) What a gift just before the close. Hussey has cut Bresnan straight to backward point. He didn't get on top of the ball and it flew past Pietersen, who took a sharp two-handed catch above his head
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WICKET! Australia 171-6 (Haddin c Prior b Tremlett 30) This is a snorter from Chris Tremlett. He rams in a superb straight short ball, the line so good that Brad Haddin can't get out of the way, and the ball loops up in the air off the splice, for Matt Prior to take a simple catch Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

WICKET! Australia 171-7 (Johnson b Tremlett 0) Tremlett is on a hat-trick! This is another jaffa: full, straight and ramming into Johnson's off-stump Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

The hat-trick ball is a majestic inswinging yorker, and Siddle does extremely well to jam the ball into his boot. What a storming over from Tremlett, a double-wicket maiden Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP