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

This is a night of monstrous importance. It's entirely conceivable that, by 7am tomorrow morning, we will know who is going to win the match; and it's entirely conceivable that whoever wins the match will win the series, given that no team has come from behind to even draw an Ashes series in Australia since the 1960s Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

83rd over: Australia 222-5 (Hussey 82, Haddin 23) Hussey survives on review, having originally been given out. BAH. What a big moment this is. He was pinned in front of leg stump by a good delivery from Anderson that moved back into him, but he called for the review instantly and there was always a doubt as to whether it pitched outside leg. Replays showed it did, but only just. That was so tight Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

91st over: Australia 237-5 (Hussey 88, Haddin 25) Anderson has the exasperated look of a man who would like to land a vigorous right-hander on Dame Fortune, were she a bloke rather than a dame. Two balls later he beats Hussey with a regal lifting leg-cutter. What an utterly preposterous jaffa that was. You'd have struggled to CGI a delivery so good. England have had no luck this morning Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

98th over: Australia 269-5 (Hussey 92, Haddin 52) Haddin is starting to look very dangerous, and belabours a cut stroke off Finn for four to take the Aussies into the lead. The next ball is fuller and driven for four to bring up an extremely good fifty: mature and two-paced. The first 25 took 111 balls, the second 25 just 23 Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

101st over: Australia 280-5 (Hussey 102, Haddin 52) Hussey cover-drives Broad for four to reach a fantastic century. This means so much to him: he crouches, clenching his fist furiously, and then raises both of hands before letting rip a simple "WOOOO!". What a lovely moment this is for one of cricket's nice guys. He was under huge pressure before the match, and Australia were under huge pressure when he came to the crease, but he countered both of those Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

105th over: Australia 306-5 (Hussey 110, Haddin 70) Brad Haddin has been dropped by Alastair Cook! It was the very first ball from the new bowler Paul Collingwood, and Haddin drove it very high back whence it came. Cook charged after it from mid-off, but couldn't hold on to a difficult, diving two-handed chance Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

123rd over: Australia 364-5 (Hussey 137, Haddin 100) There's Haddin's hundred, raised with a lofted on drive for six. That's a hell of an innings by him. He's out-played Hussey today Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

130th over: Australia 389-5 (Hussey 149, Haddin 114) Have you seen hope lately? There's hope! There she is! Just coming over the horizon! Oh no. Oh no. It's a mirage. That's a drop. A bad one ... Haddin hoicks a pull out to mid-wicket. James Anderson is underneath it, running backwards, but he makes a terrible mess of it Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

133rd over: Australia 409-5 (Hussey 156, Haddin 127) Haddin thrashes four through long-on, crashes four through cover, and then steers three to fine leg. He has nothing but contempt for England's bowling at this point Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

WICKET! Australia 450-6 (Haddin c Collingwood b Swann 136) I've seen it all now. England have taken a wicket. Haddin pushed forward at a decent delivery from Swann, bowled from around the wicket, and when it flew off the edge to the right of slip Collingwood took a fantastic low catch. That's the end of the innings of Brad Haddin's life, 136 from 287 balls, and an extraordinary partnership of 307 Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

WICKET! Australia 458-7 (Hussey c Cook b Finn 195) Having pulled Finn for four earlier in the over, Hussey goes for the shot again but holes out to Cook at deep midwicket. In a way that's a fitting end, because the pull stroke defined his innings. He walks off to a standing ovation, and you can pretty much choose any praise you like for that innings. It was simply immense Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 462-8 (Johnson b Finn 0) Mitchell Johnson's bizarrely passive innings when he is bowled off the pads by Steven Finn, who is now one away from a five-for on his Ashes debut. Johnson made 0 from 19 balls, and that means the rest of Australia's team have scored 110 for six. Apart from a hat-trick and a Gabba-record partnership, what exactly have these clowns achieved in this game? Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS

WICKET! Australia 472-9 (Siddle c Swann b Finn 6) Steven Finn takes a five-for in his first Ashes Test. He dug in a bouncer from wide on the crease; Siddle was far too early on the hook shot and the ball looped off the glove to Swann at second slip. Finn is the youngest Englishman to take an Ashes five-for since Jack Crawford in 1908 Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

WICKET! Australia 481 all out (Doherty c Cook b Finn 16) Doherty hooks Finn straight to deep midwicket, where Cook takes a good tumbling catch and then runs straight off the field. His real work is about to begin. Steven Finn leads England off after taking career-best figures of six for 125, and Australia lead by 221 Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

1st over: England 1-0 (Strauss 1, Cook 0) Strauss is on strike, on a pair and oh my word that's close. So close Australia have referred it! Strauss shouldered arms to a ball that pitched in line and swung back in, hitting him on the knee flush in front of off stump. Strauss' heart almost burst up his throat and out his mouth. Aleem Dar shook his head, but Ponting reckoned it was worth a punt. The replays show the ball was just, just passing over the top. What a start Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Close: England 19-0 (Strauss 11, Cook 6) The openers trudge off after seeing out the remaining overs of the day ... but England have a long way to go to save the first Test, as they still trail by 202. Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP