England fight back to secure a decent second innings as Broad is questionably let off the hook

With the second day of the Ashes turning in to Agar's day with the young 11th place batter bating a 98 to put Australia ahead in the test, England had to perform well in order to secure a decent second inning and to regain the lead.

The day started well for England with Pieterson and Cook making 114 runs with their partnership and Ian Bell later added to this lead with an impressive 96. Bell played with immense drive that lead him to be one of only 14 English batsmen to have ever reached 6,000 test runs. Despite this good start the English supporters could not entirely relax in their seats until late afternoon as Agar added to his bating performance by bowling the English captain, Alistair Cook, out. 

There were numerous tense moments in the match, no more so than Broad's questionable 'not out'. It looked as though Broad had caught the ball with the edge of his bat before it was caught by Michael Clark. World renowned Umpire, Aleem Der, decided that it did not and that was that. His decision was made despite the bemused looks on the Australian team and to probably the surprise of Broad's English team mates. 

Broad was let out of jail and he made the most of it by increasing his own innings to 47 not out and adding a decent 29 runs to the 108 run partnership with himself and Bell. 

England ended the day with a very decent 326 for 6. The Ashes has not been without its fair share of excitement thus far and by the looks of things this unpredictability is going to continue for the rest of the test. I hope everyone's got cushions prepared on the edge of their seats because I don't think you will be moving much from there in today's fourth day of cricket action.