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

They don't necessarily need help from the heavens to save this match but Australia will delighted with a weather forecast which suggests they will have significant competition for the title of 'Adelaide's Biggest Shower' over the next 48 hours Photograph: PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP

WICKET! England 568-5 (Pietersen c Katich b Doherty 227) This is an odd move: Ricky Ponting has decided to feed Xavier Doherty to the lions. With cruel predictability, Pietersen dismisses his first ball through midwicket for four to go to 227, his highest Test score. But he falls next ball, toe-ending a violent hoick to Katich at slip Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

149th over: England 589-5 (Bell 54, Prior 10) Bell drives a single to move to another seriously classy fifty, and then Australia have another shocker in the field. Prior skied a slog sweep, and both Ponting and North left it to each other. The look on Ponting's face is a picture. I suppose they might have had that Steve Waugh/Jason Gillespie incident in mind but, even so, that was poor communication Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

147th over: England 577-5 (Bell 49, Prior 3) Bell is such a beautiful straight hitter against slow bowling, and he dances down the track to lift Doherty over mid-on for six Photograph: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images

152nd over: England 620-5 declared (Bell 68, Prior 25) Prior skims a cover drive for four off Siddle to bring up the 50 partnership in only 33 balls. Ten more from that over, and there's the declaration. England lead by 375. "I'm struggling with this new topsy-turvy world," says Dan Smith. "Do I now need to bleach my hair/drink VB/list barbecuing as a hobby/get a bar job in London?" Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

5th over: Australia 29-0 (trailed by 375 on first innings: Watson 15, Katich 14) Katich pulls Anderson decisively behind square for four and then pushes consecutive boundaries through mid-off to make it 12 from the over. Katich is limping and grimacing his way through this innings, but he is a preposterously tough bugger so I doubt it will affect him too much. The pain might even drive him on, as it did Steve Waugh at The Oval in 2001. S&M cricket Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

16th over: Australia 55-0 (trailed by 375 on first innings: Watson 26, Katich 28) Watson inside-edges onto the pad and just in front of the diving Ian Bell, running back from silly point. An excellent over from Swann Photograph: BEN MACMAHON/EPA

WICKET! Katich 43 c Prior b Swann (Australia 84-1) There's the breakthrough. Swann gets his man, caught behind off the outside edge. Katich turned and walked off the field, stopping only when Watson called out to him to ask if he had definitely hit the ball. The answer must have been yes, though the touch was so slight the replays hardly pick it up Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

32nd over: Australia 84-1 (Watson 40, Ponting 0) Swann is bowling a lovely spell to Ponting here. It's another maiden, the fourth in a row. Ponting is playing a cagey game Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

WICKET! Ponting 9 c Collingwood b Swann (Australia 98-2) Got him! Swann strikes. Collingwood should get just as much of the credit - he took a fantastic catch at slip, low down to his left. He plucked the ball out of they air just before it touched the turf. And it was wonderfully canny bowling by Swann Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

Ponting had swept the previous delivery viciously away from outside off stump for four through square leg. So Swann sent the next one straight on, and it slipped off the outside edge as Ponting was playing down the wrong line Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

What a huge wicket for England that is Photograph: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images

39th over: Australia 111-2 (Watson 46, Clarke 12) Clarke latches on to a short ball, collaring it with a pull that brings him four through mid-wicket. So Broad bangs the ball in harder, shorter and faster, and has Clarke ducking underneath the next one Photograph: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images

41st over: Australia 121-2 (Watson 50, Clarke 18) Watson thrahses the final ball of the over down the ground for four. That brings up his fifty and also takes us in to drinks Photograph: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images

46th over: Australia 134-2 (Watson 57, Clarke 26) No good news then, but we do have some bad news from the England dressing room. Stuart Broad has strained a stomach muscle and gone off the pitch. If this is a serious injury, England's four man attack is going to be horribly exposed. Clarek steers four through cover Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

WICKET! Watson 57 c Strauss b Finn (47th over: Australia 134-3) Finn conjures a wicket from nowhere almost, nipping the ball away from the bat off the pitch. Watson leant forward to block it, and the ball slipped off his outside edge and flew to first slip where Strauss took another good catch. Watson has come up short again then Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

49th over: Australia 141-3 (Clarke 26, Hussey 5) The rain clouds are gathering on the horizon behind the old scoreboard, or so Athers tells us. Clarke pulls two runs to mid-wicket. He's played well so far, Clarke. His early jitters have disappeared Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

58th over: Australia 168-3 (Clarke 37, Hussey 21) Clarke has used his feet quite beautifully against Swann – almost exclusively as a defensive tactic, to smother the spin – and he does so on four occasions in that over, which also includes a flash of lightning behind the scoreboard. Oh dear. Clarke's light-footedness prompts Swann to go around the wicket. The contest between these two is always fantastic to watch. The over ends with Hussey edging one short of Anderson at gully Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

62nd over: BAD LIGHT STOPS PLAY. Australia 175-3 (trail by 200; Clarke 41, Hussey 24) That's the last over we'll see for a while, because it has started raining Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

69th over: Australia 208-3 (Clarke 67, Hussey 31) Hussey snicks Collingwood just past the stretching Anderson at slip and away for four. That was so close. And that's exactly why Collingwood is bowling, to try to get the ball to grip in the footmarks when he is bowling to the left-handed Hussey Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

WICKET! Clarke 80 c Cook b Pietersen (80th over: Australia 238-4) Kevin Pietersen strikes with the last ball of the day! Clarke touched a big-spinning delivery onto the thigh, and it looped up for Alastair Cook to take a good diving catch as he ran back from short leg. Clarke started walking - but then stopped, and Tony Hill did not give him out because he thought Clarke was walking. No matter: England reviewed it, knowing it was out, and replays showed it came off the face of the bat before deflecting onto Clarke's leg Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

What an inspired bowling change from Andrew Strauss - and what a moment for Pietersen, who got his highest Test score this morning and has now taken only his fifth Test wicket. It was the second ball of the over, but because the wicket fell that meant it was the close of play Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS