Apparently Haddin was in Strauss's ear after the final ball of the day and Strauss gave him some back.

Very reminiscent of his reaction to being run out by Gary Pratt in 2005. That incident arguably shifted the momentum of the whole series back in England's favour.

Day two of this game is arguably the pivotal day of the whole series. If England can build a lead and do it positively it could kick the legs out from under this Australian side, which already looks horribly short on confidence.

Totally agree.
Great day for us Poms.

It seems to have been caused by England's alleged time-wasting so they only had to face one over.
It's great, they are really getting under the Aussie's skin.

Guardian says Jimmy had been giving Haddin some yap, poor little aussies took offence.

I can see the similarities with the 'Pratt incident', and i refer to Mr Ponting there, not the sub fielder.

Good player mind.

has anyone managed to get past the Beefy part on Stickcricket yet? I've had him over a hundred twice, but can't get to 149, aaarrrgggghhhhh.........

I will do the Stick Cricket Lark when at work, its too hard on the laptop!

Oh, CMON ENGLAND

Testicles!

Another fantastic batting effort from Cook and co we can really do some damage with another good start tonight.

good work

horrific leave from Strauss

Another unbelievable day.
I have to keep pinching myself to make sure it's not a dream.
After suffering through the 90s & early noughties how good is it to see the Aussies totally on the back foot?

I know it doesn't work like this but...

based on england 2nd innings score in the 1st test and our 1st innings in the 2nd test, our aggregate score is 834-3

I'm sure it will be working like that in Ponting's mind though, he must be sick of the sight of Trott and Cook. Also Pietersen looks like he will go on to a big total.

It's great OF and i think Ponting knows he's a dead man walking.

I'm going to be controversial here and say that enjoyable as it is to see England on top, I'm not sure England's current team is any better than the England teams of the 1990s who used to get hammered by the Aussies. I'm sure there's a few older players who would have loved to have taken on this toothless Aussie attack.

Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott are fine players but for me they are not in the same class as Stewart or Gooch. Looking at what Cook is doing to these bowlers makes you wonder what Gooch would have done to them, he'd have got a triple hundred at the Gabba and would already be well into the 200s now. In fact imagine if a young Hick and Ramprakash had made their Test debut in this sort of environment instead of against Ambrose and Marshall on a crap wicket in Headingley, Hick would have been chasing Bradman's records if this is what Test cricket was about.

Even our bowling today lets be honest its nothing special. Anderson is the modern day Phil DeFreitas, he's a good swing bowler when he bowls a tight line and length but he blows hot and cold. There's no current England bowlers who are as good as Gough and Fraser, and other than Ponting and Hussey these batsmen would all be backing away to square leg if Devon Malcolm was bowling at them.

The Aussies are unfortunately resembling the W Indies side when they were clinging to Lara and an ageing Ambrose and Walsh.....the danger is if the Aussies aren't strong then Test cricket loses a lot of its appeal.