Ashes 2011 (36 page)

Old Caps, New Heads: In the injured Ponting’s absence, spinner Michael Beer and batsman Usman Khawaja made their debuts for the Fifth Test.

(Left) Phil Hughes then stand-in skipper Michael Clarke (Right) fell cheaply to weaken Australia’s first innings.

Khawaja impressing with his instant strokeplay.

Old Heads, New Attitudes: On the ground on which England’s humiliation had been made complete four years earlier, Alastair Cook…

…Ian Bell and Matt Prior completed effortless hundreds.

Bell completed a season of decidedly mixed results from the referral system by successfully challenging a decision that was almost certainly correct.

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