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

WICKET! England 3-1 (Strauss b Bollinger 1) Here we go. Andrew Strauss has gone in shocking circumstances: he left a straight one that simply went on to hit the off bail. That was an appalling leave from Strauss – I presume he left it on length, which you can do at Brisbane (as he found out) but not at Adelaide. That was a weird dismissal Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

4th over: England 16-1 (Cook 4, Trott 6) Bollinger gives Cook a stare of sheer hate. It is fair to say that Bollinger has the battle fever on. If he is a sensual lover, and we should never rule these things out, he is hiding it well with his demeanour this morning Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

8th over: England 23-1 (Cook 5, Trott 12) And then Trott is dropped. He sliced a drive low to gully, where Mike Hussey put down a very presentable chance. Fielding, you could argue, is comfortably the biggest window into the soul of a team, and Australia's has been desperate in this series Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

14th over: England 55-1 (Cook 14, Trott 32) Consecutive boundaries for Trott off Siddle. The first was edged low through the cordon, the second crunched splendidly through midwicket. That brings up a surprisingly quick fifty partnership, given the batsmen and the circumstances. Trott is motoring, and that's drinks Photograph: Jason O'Brien/Action Images

18th over: England 72-1 (Cook 20, Trott 37) Australia's two seamers have gone into Kallis mode: bowling miles wide of off stump and challenging Cook and Trott to chase the ball. This could be a very long staring contest, because Cook and Trott are the least likely of England's top six to go chasing the ball. "At the time of writing, Trott has the second highest average of any Test cricketer with more than 1000 runs," says Tom Bowtell. "This will definitely not mean that he now gets out, reducing his average to a piffling 58.96" Photograph: Gareth Copley/PA

23rd over: England 81-1 (Cook 29, Trott 37) Australia are the team that want the interval, and how often has that been the case in Ashes Tests over there in the last 18 years? This is surreal. Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

28th over: England 102-1 (Cook 47, Trott 39) Bollinger opens after lunch with a wide half volley which Cook pokes through point for four. Just the 12 runs from the over in total Photograph: Tom Shaw/Getty Images

29th over: England 107-1 (Cook 47, Trott 44) Harris creaks up to the crease like a tea lady in a retirement home. His second delivery is decent enough, but Trott is having none of it. He dispatches it through mid-wicket for four with undue contempt. A single follows, snicked off the inside edge past the stumps Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

32nd over: England 119-1 (Cook 52, Trott 51) That's Cook's fifty, and Trott follows him to that same landmark moments later with a stylish flick through the leg side Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

47th over: England 172-1 (Cook 78, Trott 76) Harris replaces Siddle. Haddin leaps high to his right to take a brilliant catch. Unfortunately for him Trott didn't hit it. He did snick the next though. Only this time Haddin didn't catch it. A drop then, and a bad one too given that he got both gloves to it. You couldn't make this up. Absolutely nothing is working for Australia Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

Referral! Cook 64 c Haddin b Siddle (England 146-1) Australia think they have Cook here, caught behind off the glove down the leg side. Umpire Hill's finger goes up but Cook is having none of it and the decision is overturned. He was nowhere near hitting the ball Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

46th over: England 170-1 (Cook 78, Trott 76) Four! Four! Four! Cook takes 12 runs from three deliveries by Doherty, all three of them laced through the off side. Imperious batting Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

WICKET! Trott 78 c Clarke b Harris (England 176-2) And there, at last, Australia have their wicket. After all the drops, this was a good catch by Michael Clarke at mid-on, diving one-handed to his left. Trott is furious with himself. And it was a slightly soft way to get out, clipping the ball lazily through the air Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

61st over: England 229-2 (Cook 103, Pietersen 32) And Cook cuts the next ball for four to reach his second century of the week! What a staggering feat of physical and mental strength this is, and he still looks pretty fresh, in the mood to make this another daddy. After a quick play with Statsguru, I think he is the first Englishman to make consecutive Ashes centuries since David Gower in 1985, and the first English opener to do so since Herbert Sutcliffe in 1925. Eighty-five years Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

63rd over: England 235-2 (Cook 104, Pietersen 37) Pietersen is starting to manhandle Doherty now, and he drives him inside-out through extra cover for another boundary Photograph: MICK TSIKAS/REUTERS

74th over: England 279-2 (Cook 119, Pietersen 66) Pietersen slams North through the covers for four, a brilliant shot that brings up the century partnership from just 153 balls. England's run-rate has been excellent today: they have scored 279 from 73 at 3.82 runs per over Photograph: Hamish Blair/Getty Images

87th over: England 302-2 (Cook 129, Pietersen 79) Australia have taken the new ball. Ryan Harris has a couple of slips, but his third ball is leg-stump garbage that Pietersen flicks imperiously through square leg for four. Just before that you could hear Shane Warne say, off mic, "it could be over by Melbourne" Photograph: Rob Griffith/AP

88th over: England 310-2 (Cook 130, Pietersen 86) Four more to Pietersen, swivel-pulled very fine off Bollinger. After all those brilliantly made runs in a losing cause over here four years ago, he will be loving every minute of this. He is also homing in on his first Test century since March 2009 Photograph: WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images