HIGHLIGHTS-Cricket-England take six wickets in final session

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England took six quick wickets after tea to reduce Australia to 156 for eight in their first innings on the second day of the second Ashes test at Lord's on Friday.
Australia bowled England out for 425 in the morning session. The players left the field for bad light shortly after the fall of the eighth wicket.
* Stuart Broad dismissed Brad Haddin (28) and Mitchell Johnson (4), who both mishit attempted hooks to Alastair Cook. James Anderson took his fourth wicket when Marcus North dragged a delivery on to his stumps. North, who scored a century in the drawn first test at Cardiff, was out for a duck.
* Michael Clarke (1) clipped a full delivery from Anderson to Cook who took a sharp catch at short mid-wicket.
* Andrew Flintoff was finally rewarded for some magnificent fast bowling when he bowled Michael Hussey for 51. Broad took an athletic tumbling catch at fine-leg off Graham Onions 21 balls earlier to dismiss opener Simon Katich for 48.
Opener Phillip Hughes (4) gloved a delivery from the third ball of Anderson's second over down the leg-side to wicketkeeper Matt Prior. Anderson then dismissed captain Ricky Ponting caught for two at first slip by his opposite number Andrew Strauss.
Umpire Rudi Koertzen rejected an appeal from Anderson for lbw but, after consulting his colleague Billy Doctrove to see if the ball had carried, gave Ponting out caught.
* Anderson (29) and Onions (17 not out) added 47 runs from 53 balls for the final wicket in England's innings before Anderson was caught in the gully by Hussey off Johnson. He had hit five fours off Johnson's bowling.
* Strauss, who had not added to his overnight score of 161, left the second delivery of the morning from Ben Hilfenhaus which nipped down the slope and struck his off-stump.
Graeme Swann (4) was caught at second slip by Ponting off Peter Siddle in the next over and Broad was bowled off the inside edge by Hilfenhaus for 16.
* England resumed on 364 for six after play began on time following heavy overnight rain.
(Editing by Kevin Fylan and Ken Ferris; to query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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