Flintoff leads victory bid

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All-rounder Flintoff, charging in from the Pavilion End, enticed an edge from Brad Haddin with just his fourth delivery of the morning to terminate the 185-run stand.

Then Michael Clarke ran down the pitch to Graeme Swann with disastrous consequences as the ball snuck past him to hit off-stump and Flintoff followed that up by bowling Nathan Hauritz to leave the tourists on 363 for eight.

When Paul Collingwood clutched the catch low at second slip to dismiss Haddin off Flintoff, the fifth-day crowd, like its predecessors a sell-out, erupted.

As Flintoff acknowledged his success with an exaggerated nod of the head, Haddin trudged off for 80, having played an innings which allowed Australia to dream of the impossible.

And a change of pace proved successful for England as Swann floated up his second delivery and the ball beat Clarke's advance on the outside edge before pitching and spinning to hit off-stump.

Flintoff claimed his second wicket of the morning in the next over with new batsman Nathan Hauritz making the fatal misjudgement of leaving a full-length ball which nipped back down the hill from the Pavilion End to knock back his off-stump.

It gave Flintoff his fourth wicket of the innings, putting him in sight of only the third five-wicket haul of his England career, with tail-ender Peter Siddle joining Johnson at the crease with Australia struggling on 363 for eight, still 159 runs away from an unlikely victory.