England struggle as wickets tumble

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Strauss' six-hour innings came to its conclusion from only the second ball when he shouldered arms at a Ben Hilfenhaus delivery that bent back to hit the top of off-stump.

Overhead cloud cover aided the ball's dominance over bat and two more wickets followed in the opening three overs - with Graeme Swann edging a Peter Siddle delivery to Ricky Ponting and Stuart Broad playing on to the dangerous Hilfenhaus.

England were therefore 378 for nine, which represented a serious deterioration after Strauss and Alastair Cook (95) shared a 196-run opening stand.

Swann, given such a working over by Siddle in the final stages of the drawn match in Cardiff on Sunday, was greeted by the same bowler from the pavilion end.

His first delivery, a bouncer, could have been scripted and it had its desired effect as a failure to get into line resulted in a thick edge flying to second slip.

Stuart Broad rode his luck against Hilfenhaus, inside-edging one of two fours in the next over, but it ran out when he chopped a drive into his stumps.