Ashes 2010: The best pictures from day four of the first Test

The players are out on the field. There are quite a few empty seats at the Gabba this morning. Shane Warne reckons the locals will filter in after lunch once they've shrugged off their hangovers Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

Andy Flower is out on the ground after missing three days of play while he had a cancerous lump removed from his cheek Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

18th over: England 28-0 (Strauss 11, Cook 14) Siddle comes around the wicket to Cook. He tries to slap away a loose drive, but the ball screws off the outside edge and away through third man. It gets him four, but it also drew a lot of ohhhs and ahhhs from the Australians Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

21st over: England 41-0 (Strauss 15, Cook 23) Whisper it: England are on top of the bowlers. Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

25th over: England 58-0 (Strauss 27, Cook 28) The first cries of "four more to the En-ger-land, four more to the En-ger-land" accompany a cut shot for four from Cook Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

28th over: England 70-0 (Strauss 37, Cook 29) Strauss is playing wonderfully well. He has just uppercut four over cover, and folliowed it up with a firm drive for another boundary down the ground Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

33rd over: England 92-0 (Strauss 50, Cook 38) Strauss forces four through long-off with a clipped drive, and then drops to one knee to sweep a single fine. That raises his 22nd Test fifty, but he hardly stops to celebrate Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

38th over: England 120-0 (Strauss 70, Cook 46) Johnson is taken off and Doherty comes back on and that's a drop! Johnson has spilled a simple catch at mid-off, reaching up above his head with both hands. He was just snoozing after finishing his spell. Strauss had hit the ball straight to him Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

53rd over: England 157-0 (Strauss 96, Cook 56) Doherty has a huge LBW shout against Strauss with a quicker, very full delivery. It looked close but Aleem Dar said not out. Ricky Ponting thought about a review for a long time, but he only has one left and decided against it. He was right to do so, because replays showed Strauss was outside the line. It was smart bowling from Doherty though Photograph: PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP/Getty Images

56th over: England 171-0 (Strauss 101, Cook 65) Cook rifles Hilfenhaus through extra cover for four. It was in the air for a while but right off the middle and nowhere near any of the fielders. England trail by just 50 now. There have been so many momentum shifts in this fantastic Test, and there will be a few more Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

55th over: England 165-0 (Strauss 100, Cook 60) Andrew Strauss has made his first Test century in Australia! There's just a little tingle down the spine, because this has been a marvellous performance. He back cut Doherty for four and then punched the air with real feeling. It's his 19th Test hundred in all, and the second after he has been on a pair. "OK - clearly am drunk now but can I just say how much I love Strauss?" says Rachel Clifton Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

WICKET! England 188-1 (Strauss st Haddin b North 110) Ricky Ponting's apparently inexplicable faith in Marcus North is rewarded with a huge wicket. Strauss came flying down the wicket, but North bowled it a lot wider and the ball turned past the outside edge for Brad Haddin to complete the stumping. Strauss walks off slowly, knowing the job is not done yet. But by heaven he played well Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

67th over: England 189-1 (trailed by 221 on first innings; Cook 72, Trott 1) Strauss actually hesitated for a split second before desperately shoving his bat back in the crease. Had he not done so, he might just have survived. Anyway Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

80th over: England 248-1 (Cook 103, Trott 27) Cook edges down the wicket looking for a single to bring up his hundred, but retreats back to the crease before he has gone three yards. He gets it with his next ball though, steering four through third man. He punches the air, then rips off his helmet and grins up at the heavens. Sky flash up a stat on the screen - this is the first time both English openers have scored a century in the same Ashes innings since 1938 Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

86th over: England 265-1 (Cook 110, Trott 34) Another drop. This time Trott was the lucky man. He cut the ball to Michael Clarke at point. Again the chance was a hard one - he had to leap across one-handed to his left, but again, on another day he would have taken it Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

89th over: England 268-1 (Cook 112, Trott 34) Another no ball from Australia. They look spent, devoid of inspiration Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

91st over: England 277-1 (Cook 112, Trott 42) A referral! Trott 42 LBW Hilfenhaus Aleem Dar gave it not out with a shake of his head, but Australia are desperate so that ask for the review. A poor decision - the ball was passing by the off stump and the decision stands. Trott bats on and Australia are out of reviews Photograph: Tertius Pickard/AP

I wonder if Australia will have the bottle to drop Johnson and bring in Bollinger for the next Test? There's no doubt that they'd be better for it. Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images