England suffer second defeat

Despite Paul Collingwood's half-century at Lord's, England fell short by 39 runs to leave them needing three wins from five remaining matches to take the series.

The hosts collapsed to 210 all out after moving to 74 without loss in their run chase, with the regular wickets starting to fall after Shane Watson trapped Ravi Bopara lbw in his first over.

Then in his next, he had Matt Prior caught behind for a single.

Next to go was captain Andrew Strauss, caught and bowled by Nathan Hauritz three short of his fifty, and Owais Shah was run out when Collingwood called for a single after nudging into the off side.

Eoin Morgan and Tim Bresnan, the two changes from Friday's defeat at The Oval, were dismissed by Mitchell Johnson and Luke Wright departed after a brief cameo, leaving England relying on Collingwood to see them home.

There was brief hope when Graeme Swann was at the crease but Nathan Bracken accounted for him and Ryan Sidebottom in the same over.

England were set 250 to win after an Australian innings that lacked a batsman going on to make a big total, only Callum Ferguson reaching the half-century mark.

It meant back-to-back 50s for the South Australia batsman. But the 24-year-old lacked support from his middle order, after openers Watson and Tim Paine got the tourists off to a solid start.

Wright and Swann took two wickets apiece for England as they restricted Australia to a gettable looking score but the batsmen failed to fire as the host fell 2-0 behind in the series.