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

Evening everyone, how do? I'm looking forward to today's play, after a rather sluggish start to the match yesterday. You'll be pleased to hear that the weather forecast is set fair, for what it is worth. So we're in for a full day's play Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

WICKET! Haddin 3 c Prior b Anderson (63rd over: Australia 141-5) Oh mercy what a terrible shot that is. Haddin swings a loose and lazy cut shot at a wide ball from Anderson, snicking it straight into Matt Prior's mitts Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

Strange player, Haddin. He can seem so capable and committed a batsman, but is also so prone to playing truly awful shots outside off stump Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

64th over: Australia 146-5 (Hussey 17, Smith 0) This Australian line-up is so flimsy, it almost feels as though England only have to dry up the runs for a ten minute stretch and they'll be sure to take a wicket. And it's another maiden here, so they're well on the way to another one Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

72nd over: Australia 163-5 (Hussey 29, Smith 5) What a lovely duel this series has seen between Hussey and Swann. And again you'd say that Hussey is just getting the better of it Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

78th over: Australia 167-5 (Hussey 30, Smith 8) Strauss applies a little Collyfilla to the innings, giving Collingwood a couple before the new balls. And he is almost repaid with a brilliant wicket, the ball snicks off the inside edge, hits Hussey's pad and loops up into the air. Collingwood runs forward in his follow-through and dives forward, arms outstretched. His fingertips can't quite reach the ball though Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

WICKET! Hussey 33 b Collingwood (Australia 171-6) Well I'll be... Collingwood has bowled Mike Hussey! That's preposterous. Collingwood is jubilant, leaping up into the air and shouting out loud 'til he is red in the face Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

He is swamped by his teammates. You just cannot keep this man out of the game. What a player to have in your team Photograph: RICK STEVENS/REUTERS

He had fed Hussey five balls wide of off, and then slipped in a slightly tighter, straighter delivery. Hussey tried to drive it, but the the ball ricocheted off the inside edge, into his pads and on into off stump Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

WICKET! Smith 18 c Collingwood b Anderson (Australia 187-7) Smith goes in the most predictably soft fashion, caught behind flailing a drive at a delivery outside off stump. It was a very wide ball, and he flashed it it, turning his head just in time to see Collingwood - who else - take the catch at third slip Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

WICKET! Siddle 2 c Strauss b Anderson (Australia 189-8) That's far too good for Siddle, who edges an away-swinger from Anderson straight at first slip. Australia are collapsing fast here Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

86th over: Australia 190-8 (Johnson 6, Hilfenhaus 0) That's a brute of a ball from Tremlett, spitting up at Hilfenhaus' throat from a full length. Earlier in the over he had the ball swinging both ways in the air after pitching, which caused Prior all sorts of problems. He's bowled wonderfully well Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

96th over: Australia 238-8 (Johnson 33, Hilfenhaus 15) Tim Bresnan starts after lunch and his first ball is sliced in the air but wide of gully by Hilfenhaus. Johnson then plays a storming straight drive for two, a gorgeous stroke that would have been four but for a fine piece of fielding from Trott. Later in the over, Bresnan spears some total nonsense down the leg side for four byes. This partnership, up to 49 now, will be engaging England's wick and no mistake Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

98th over: Australia 250-8 (Johnson 39, Hilfenhaus 21) England are a wee bit sloppy at the moment – lower-order runs, especially when scored quickly and mixed with a healthy sprinkling of radge-inducing false strokes, can make even the best fielding sides unravel – and they are losing their rag as well. Eleven from that Bresnan over, including a magnificent six off the last ball from Hilfenhaus, driven mightily over midwicket on the walk Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

99th over: Australia 261-8 (Johnson 50, Hilfenhaus 21) This is wonderful stuff from Australia. Johnson makes it 16 from three balls when he DiMaggios Swann's first two deliveries over midwicket for four and then six. A single two balls later brings him to a superb fifty, his sixth in Tests, from only 63 balls Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

100th over: Australia 263-8 (Johnson 53, Hilfenhaus 21) Johnson hardly stopped to celebrate that fifty, confining himself to a brisk, business-like wave of his bat. He wants more Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

WICKET! Johnson 53 b Bresnan (Australia: 265-9) That's one big shot too many from Johnson, who plays around a straight ball that goes on to knock over his off-stump. He walks off to an ovation from a grateful Australian crowd, who have been starved of much worth clapping in recent days Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 280 all out (Hilfenhaus c Prior b Anderson 34) Jimmy Anderson was brought back to end the nonsense and did so with his first ball. Hilfenhaus tried to tennis-smash a short ball that flew off the edge, and Prior took a fine leaping catch Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

6th over: England 26-0 (Strauss 18, Cook 8) Johnson's first ball is tripe, short, wide and slapped for four by Strauss Photograph: GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images

9th over: England 46-0 (Strauss 36, Cook 9) Hilfenhaus is only a fraction short that time but it's enough for Strauss to swivel-pull a stunning six Photograph: GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images

12th over: England 55-0 (Strauss 38, Cook 13) David Hasselhoff is at the SCG, talking to Glenn McGrath. "Give over," says Bumble. "Give over! I'm not having it! The Hoff! Bet he goes and rescues somebody soon... Look at his strides, you can just see his strides. Unless it's a local joiner..." Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

22nd over: England 98-0 (Strauss 60, Cook 31) We're in serious danger of exhausting all the rude words we can feasibly use to describe Mitchell Johnson's bowling here. I don't think we've deployed 'dross' yet have we? Photograph: GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images

WICKET! Strauss 60 b Hilfenhaus (England 98-1) Hubris? Meet my friend Mr Nemesis. Strauss plays all around a rather fine delivery from Hilfenhaus and is clean bowled. The ball was angled in, then seamed away just a little off the wicket, snaking back past Strauss' attempted leg glance Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

Watching the replays it looks like Strauss simply made a terrible hash of playing a straight ball from around the wicket. He missed it by a mile Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

WICKET! Trott 0 b Johnson (England 98-2) Hubris and Nemesis seem to be getting pretty forward with each other. I'm starting to feel like a spare wheel. Trott is cleaned up, bowled off the inside edge Photograph: TIM WIMBORNE/REUTERS

Trott was stretching out to drive a ball that was a way away from his body. All of a sudden England are wobbling Photograph: Mark Baker/AP

28th over: England 113-2 (Cook 36, Pietersen 10) Johnson is in to the sixth over of his spell now, and he is bowling considerably better than he was just 10 minutes ago. What a strange man he is. Mercurial doesn't do him justice. I've never seen a thermometer that rose and fell as quickly as this. He fires in a fierce short ball at Pietersen, who pushes it awkwardly away for two runs to leg Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

REVIEW! Cook 46 c b Beer (England 145-3) Beer has got his first wicket in Test cricket, and what a good one it is. Cook lofts a catch to mid-on, and he is out. Or is he? Umpire Bowden has asked for a review because he thinks it's a no ball! Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

And he's right. It is. Beer's foot was over the line, and Cook can bat on. What a farce. I don't know whether to laugh or cry on Beer's behalf Photograph: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

WICKET! Pietersen 36 c Beer b Johnson (England 165-3) There goes KP, caught on the hook. It was a good, sharp bouncer from Johnson, back in the attack for a final spell before the close. Pietersen threw a hook at it, but was a little late on the shot. The bat turned in his hand and the ball flew in the air to fine leg. What an irritating way to get out Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images