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

Don't panic. Yet. Yes, it was a sorry start to the Ashes for England. But they are a resilient team. I'd say we owe them at least another 30 overs before we dissolve into angst, embarrassment and self-loathing Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

8th over: Australia 26-0 England are thirsty for a wicket here. We need some reassurance. Even a good appeal would do. Instead what we get is a meaty pull stroke from Watson, whacking the ball away for four through mid-wicket. A bad ball that, from Anderson Photograph: Rick Rycroft/AP

8th over: Australia 26-0 Then we get the first appeal of the morning, but it is a fairly half-hearted affair. The ball came back and clipped Katich's pad just above the knee as it went through to the 'keeper Photograph: Tertius Pickard/AP

13th over: Australia 42-0 That has to be out! But it's not. The batsmen got themselves into a terrible tangle, Katich was watching the ball as he ran, and was half-way down the wicket when he realised Watson wasn't coming. Cook had time to line up a throw at the stumps, and if he had hit Katich would have gone. But his throw just slid past the stumps Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

16th over: Australia 48-0 That's a brute of a ball from Broad, a ripsnorting short ball that spat up at Watson. He failed to duck and flailed at the ball, which thumped into the inside of his upper left arm and deflected down towards his stumps Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Drinks ladies and gents. Pick your own poisons Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

17th over: Australia 55-0 Strauss makes his first bowling change, bringing Steve Finn on for his first over in Ashes cricket. His first ball is a loosener down the leg side. His second is full, and Katich taps it away through the leg side for three runs. Oh dear Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

23rd over; Australia 67-0 This is becoming pretty soul destroying. I might even have to break open the emergency Pickled Onion Monster Munch Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

Referral! Katich 27 LBW Anderson (Australia 74-0) Hallelujah! Up goes the finger. Katich is given out LBW. But the batsmen consult and decide to refer it. Oh mercy me. What have we done to deserve this? The replays show the ball was going over the top and the decision is overturned. Katich bats on. What a kick in the guts Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

WICKET! Watson 36 c Strauss b Anderson (Australia 78-1) They've got him this time. England have their wicket at last, and Watson can't refer this one. He edged it straight to slip. What sweet relief. That felt a very long time coming. English spirits soar. And then in walks Ricky Ponting Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 96-2 (Ponting c Prior b Anderson 10) England get a mighty bonus from the second ball after lunch, with Ricky Ponting strangled down the leg side. It was a nothing delivery, drifting onto the pads; Ponting tried to work it away but got the thinnest of edges to Matt Prior Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 100-3 (Katich c and b Finn 50) Another one gone! Katich chips a full delivery straight back to Finn, who shows the loose-limbed flexibility of a limbo dancer to get down quickly and claim a lovely, low two-handed catch. It's his first Ashes wicket, and what a vital time to get it Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

38th over: Australia 101-3 Hussey so, so nearly goes first ball! It was a brilliant delivery from Finn, full, on off stump and demanding the stroke. The ball flew off the edge and bounced just short of Swann, diving to his right at second slip Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 140-4 (Clarke c Prior b Finn 9) Michael Clarke's grim, stodgy innings ends in predictable style: to the short ball. He tried to lap-pull one from Finn, but it moved away a touch and he top-edged it through to Matt Prior. And then he walked, which is not something you see every century from an Aussie batsman Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

WICKET! Australia 143-5 (North c Collingwood b Swann 1) As that well-known cricket fan Simon Cowell would say, Graeme Swann is back in the game. That was a textbook off-spinner's dismissal: North pushed forward and the ball turned a fair way to take the edge and fly low to slip, where Collingwood took a beautiful catch Photograph: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images

62nd over: Australia 175-5 At the other end England open with Stuart Broad. He looks irritated, red in the face and with a frown on his brow. He doesn't pause after delivering the ball, but turns and strops back to his mark. Hussey gets a single from the final ball of the over, bringing up his fifty from 85 balls Photograph: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images

64th over: Australia 181-5 I just know it. I'm going to get to describe Hussey and Haddin batting for the next two hours with not even a sniff of a wicket. I can feel it in my bones. Photograph: PATRICK HAMILTON/AFP/Getty Images

76th over: Australia 213-5 Hussey's umpteenth pull shot fetches him four more. Almost all his runs have come off Swann and Finn Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

80th over: Australia 220-5 Cruel game, cricket. Just as Anderson starts to mark out his run with the new ball, the umpires decide to take everyone off the field because the light is too poor to play in. Bah Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

That's all folks. Stumps have been drawn and day two of the Ashes has come to a close. Excuse me if I don't linger, but I've a bed to get back to. Cheerio Photograph: DANIEL MUNOZ/REUTERS