Another amazing day of Test cricket and very different from the first 2 days!
I felt that Australia still had the upper hand up to, and even after Tea â but Bell and Broad played out the day slowly building a lead that will (already) require a special fourth innings chase to overhaul.
4.7%
The success rate for final innings run chases of more than 300 in Test match history.
Have England finally cracked the Australians?
hmmm
Day 5 and a sold out 17,000 crowd inside Trent Bridge with the prospect of a guaranteed result that could still go either way!
Australia 191/6
England take the new ball
Agar ominously smashes the new ball to the boundary off the bowling of Broad.
Wicket!!!
Agar caught at slip by Cook from the bowling of Anderson for 14.
Australia 207/7 - 104 runs required to win.
Wicket!!!
Starc caught at first slip by Cook from the bowling of Anderson for 1.
Australia 211/8 - 100 runs required to win
Anderson 10 overs straight already today is surely due a rest.
Siddle on 10 dropped at first slip by Cook off the bowling of Anderson.
Wicket!!!
Siddle caught at slip by an amazing Cook catch - once again from the bowling of Anderson for 11,
Australia 231/9
England on the brink of victory in the first Test.
Anderson took 3-31 in a 16 over spell today.
Finn, having replaced Anderson, has been hit by Haddin for 3 straight boundaries!
Australia now require 49 to win.
Finn - smacked for 15 in his previous over - continues!
Australia have added 24 from 2 Finn overs - and now Swann smashed for a 6!
31 to win.
Finn replaced by Broad.
Haddin - 60
Pattinson - 21
Australia now require 30 runs to win.
Finn drops Haddin in the deep off the bowling of Swann and the ball runs for 4.
Australia now require 22 to win.
Ausrralia have never won an Ashes Test by one wicket.
21 to win
Australia 291/9 at lunch after an extended morning session.
20 runs required.
Anderson and Swann are trusted with the ball for the afternoon session... and the conclusion of the first Test.
Haddin given out caught Prior bowled Anderson for71... but only after England used their final review which detected a small hot spot.
England win the first Test by 14 runs!
Jimmy Anderson finished with 5/73 and 10 wickets in the match.
Well done, England and Australia for producing one of the best Ashes test matches in years 
I wonder who man of the match will be as it could be Agar, Bell or Anderson. Don't think we'll see Finn in the next test match - his confidence is shattered.
It was Anderson who was made man of the match for getting 10 wickets during the match.
England select an unchanged squad for the 2nd Test which starts at Lords on Thursday:
England select an unchanged squad for the 2nd Test which starts at Lords on Thursday:
But will the same 11 be chosen from that squad? There must be doubts regarding Finn but the chances are he will be selected as Lords is his home ground.
England select an unchanged squad for the 2nd Test which starts at Lords on Thursday:
But will the same 11 be chosen from that squad? There must be doubts regarding Finn but the chances are he will be selected as Lords is his home ground.
Yeah, he plays for Middlesex and the pitch should suit him slightly more than Trent Bridge â although Iâm hearing that given the extended dry warm spell we are experiencing the 2nd test pitch might not play much different from the 1st.
I would start with Finn as his overall record for England is decent and dropping a player from a winning team (should it be based on form, alone) could boost the morale of the Australians. Is a four man bowling attack sufficient though? An extra bowler would be my consideration regarding change â and for that I would reluctantly take out Bairstow - moving Prior and Broad up a place in the batting order.
