Australia surge back after Ponting and Katich centuries

England 435; Australia 249-1 Watch highlights of the second day’s play here Two days gone and already the first Test has not so much twisted and turned as writhed. Today, for the most part anyway, was Australia’s day as relentlessly, playing the conditions without risk or frippery, Simon Katich and Ricky Ponting redressed the balance of the first Test for Australia after a morning in the fieldthat bordered on red-faced embarrassment for them. Katich, a latecomer as an established Test match batsman, the pragmatic unobtrusive left-hander given the task of helping fill the breach left by one of the great opening pairs in history, became the first to register a century on the newest Test ground when he pulled Andrew Flintoff’s bouncer for a single to fine-leg. His innings, over four and a half hours, was not chanceless.

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Australia surge back after Ponting and Katich centuries