Swann puts Aussies in a spin

My Account
Logout

Create an Evening Standard Account

Use your social network

Save time by using your existing account to sign in to Evening Standard

We'll never share your information or post anything to your account without your permission

Welcome! Sign in here

Use your social network

Save time by using your existing account to sign in to Evening Standard

We'll never share your information or post anything to your account without your permission

Forgot your password ?

Registration

* indicates fields that are mandatory

Email *

Password *

Confirm Password *

First name *

Surname *

Postcode *

Country *

Mobile phone number

Username *

Gender *

Year of birth *

When you sign up...

You will have access to all our online competitions, discounted offers and can post comments on our site.

You will also receive The Weekender newsletter sent every Thursday - it’s full of fantastic offers and ideas for the weekend. You can update your email preferences in your account page when you log in.

Other newsletters and emails

Homes & Property Newsletter - Yes I want to receive the weekly email with all the latest news on property in the capital

Occasionally we would also like to send you relevant emails detailing specific offers either from ourselves or carefully selected partners. If you would prefer not to receive these then please tick the appropriate boxes below. We will never pass on your details.

I do not want to receive additional offers and information from the Evening Standard

I do not want to receive additional offers and information sent by Evening Standard on behalf of carefully selected partners

Terms and Conditions

* I have read, understood and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of Evening Standard

Registration

Mail Sent for Registration Confirmation.

A confirmation email has been sent. Please activate your account by clicking on the activation link sent in your mail box.

The spinner claimed the prized wicket of skipper Ricky Ponting for 53 and then snapped up Cameron White, James Hopes, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee to return career-best figures of five for 28 as the tourists laboured to 176 off just 45.5 overs.

Ponting had earlier eased himself past Inzamam-ul-Haq into third place in the all-time list of one-day international batsmen, eventually taking his tally to 11,760.

England, bidding to avoid the humiliation of a 7-0 series defeat, started in promising fashion as James Anderson removed opener Shane Watson for nought in his first over and Graham Onions, making his ODI debut, prompted Tim Paine to nudge a ball to wicketkeeper Matt Prior.

Ponting and Michael Clarke steadied the ship with a partnership of 79 for the third wicket, the latter pushing the score past 50 with his first boundary 43 minutes and 31 balls into his innings. The Australia captain reached his own personal landmark during the following over, clipping Tim Bresnan to the fine leg boundary to pass Inzamam's mark.

But having passed 50 with a confident pull off the recalled Paul Collingwood, he departed seven runs later, and the wheels started to come off.

Andrew Strauss had turned to Swann in an effort to break the partnership, and got his reward when the bowler duly obliged with the fifth ball of his first over. Ponting lobbed a low catch to Collingwood at short mid-wicket to go for 53.

The fourth wicket went down with 110 on the board when Clarke was run out for 38 by Eoin Morgan off the final ball of the 28th over, and White soon followed him back into the pavilion, bowled by Swann for just one run.

The spinner collected his third wicket when he claimed Hopes caught and bowled for 11, and when Mitchell Johnson holed out to Anderson for 10, Australia were in trouble.

Their plight deepened when Swann bowled Lee for a duck to claim his first one-day five-wicket haul for England, and after Owais Shah had removed Nathan Hauritz caught and bowled for three, Hussey found Joe Denly in the deep off the bowling of Bresnan to bring the innings to a premature close.