Australia fall to Jimmy Anderson as England fight back in Ashes

• Third Test, day one: Australia 136; England 133-3
• Jimmy Anderson takes 6-47 after Michael Clarke wins toss

All the England bowlers have craved in order to contest this series is a little bit of help. Give them a flat pitch, a shirtfront like Lord’s, and they cannot compete against the sheer pace of the Australians. But a bit of nibble and they are in the game. It does not much matter how it comes: brooding low cloud and swing; grass and dampness to help the ball off the seam. Neither is the pace of the pitch of primary importance. Give us some lateral movement, they say, any kind, and we can expose frailties in batting in those unused to combating it.

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