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Match	South Australia v England	-	Date	17th - 19th November, 2006
Match Type	Three Day - Tour Warm Up	-	Umpires	Davis, SJ (AUS), Collins, AR (AUS)
Toss	South Australia	-	Decision	Bat
Result	Match Drawn	-	Venue	Adelaide Oval  - Scorecard
NSW	1st Inns: 7 for 247 Dec (Lehmann 99)	-	2nd Inns:	2 for 164 (Harris 71*)
England	1st Inns: 415 a/o (Bell 132)	-	2nd Inns:

Day 1

As England begin their final warm up game ahead of the first Test in Brisbane in six days time, they take to the field in the knowledge that Giles has missed out and Monty Panesar is the preferred spinner. The only other change is apparently an enforced one with Steve Harmison, who is in great need of match practice, rested after waking up with a tightness in his side.

This lay off will be a huge blow to Harmison who has been up and down in the two games he has played so far in this tour. Mahmood comes in as cover and England coach Fletcher insists the change is purely precautionary as he is on record as stating the side to face South Australia will be his starting Test team. As expected Jones keeps wicket ahead of a disappointed Chris Read.

South Australia won the toss and elected to bat, it proved to be a huge mistake. Following nine overs of tight bowling from Anderson and Hoggard, the Redbacks lost their first wicket with the score on 21 – Anderson the bowler. Hoggard running in at the presumption of the 11th over accounted for Harris who tried to cut but only managed to get a thick edge and Collingwood did the rest at third slip.

With just four runs added, Cosgrove gifted Hoggard his second wicket when he gloves a short leg side delivery to Jones behind the wicket, poor shot for a quality bat. With Hoggard on fire and South Australia on the back foot it was time to turn up the heat on a lovely day in Adelaide. With his very next delivery Hoggard got a ball to cut back trapping Ferguson in front and umpire Davis showing no hesitation in raising his finger. The home team will struggle to make a game of this with England on this kind of form.

South Australia rallied thanks mainly to a 157 run partnership from Lehmann (99) and Borgas (73) ending their innings on 7 for 247 before declaring. It allowed for six overs and before the umpires lifted the bails to signal the close, Tait struck sending Strauss back to the pavilion without scoring.

Day 2

Day two was all about Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood who shared in a stand of 178, rescuing England from a precarious position of 3 for 34.

Tait sent the night-watchman Hoggard back without adding to his overnight total of 10 when he tail ender flayed at a Tait outswinger only managing to guide the ball to Deitz for a simple caught behind. Alistair Cook, opening in place of marcus Trescothick had a lot to prove but unfortunately failed when he too was caught behind but this time to Jason Gillespie.

Gillespie, who hasn't played for Australia since his 201 against Bangladesh is trying to work his way back into the Australian set up and his performance today wouldn't have done him any harm. The South Australian bowled 19 overs conceding just 27 runs.

It was then left to Bell and Collingwood to rescue a deflated England with a wonderful array of attacking shots following a defensive start. Tait and Harris attacked the pair with a string of short deliveries and the batsmen weathered the storm and slowly but surely took England into a first innings lead.

Pietersen batting at six but effectively number five given Hoggard's promotion hit 35 in a quickfire innings that included five boundaries before being bowled by Dizzy, his second wicket of the innings.

Jones who has a lot to prove in this match was there at the close with captain Flintoff by his side.

Day 3

The match ended in a predictable draw following Flintoff's decision to bat until lunch and despite an effort to score quick runs towards the luncheon break there was never going to be enough time to bowl South Australia out twice.

England were eventually bowled out for 415, Anderson the final man out for nine runs. Lehmann took the last wicket and in so doing gave Deitz his fifth victim of the innings who caught Anderson off his boot.

As was expected Flintoff opted for batting practice today and along with Jones the pair settled down to build on the overnight total. Conditions favoured the batsmen and although the scoring was slow the pair looked comfortable until Jones fell victim to a Cullen off-break; Cosgrove obliging with a catch to end the wicket keepers innings of 33.

Flintoff continued to bat and the fact that he spent two and a half hours for his 47 was testament to his desire to spend time on the 21 yards. Mahmood changed things with a quick fire 41 that included two sixes. Flintoff did appear to react to the bowler's aggressive take on things and upped his work rate.

Tait who had gone off last night with cramp came back on to bowl six overs declaring himself fit for selection on Thursday.

In reply just two wickets fell, the England bowlers struggling to make the decisive breakthroughs. Elliot who had failed in his first innings shared in an opening partnership of 94 before he fell to a wonderful catch by Jimmy Anderson at mid-wicket. He received a reprieve earlier when Pietersen dropped the ex Glamorgan player on nine.

On a wicket that favoured spinners, Monty Panesar would have been disappointed in taking just the one wicket. It was a decent warm up for England but slightly worrying they failed to make more of the game ahead of next week's Test match in Queensland.

It remains to be seen if Steve Harmison can bowl off his stiffness in the nets and prove his fitness. One thing England will not want to do is go into the match with the possibility of losing their strike bowler. Four years ago England lost Simon Jones in the same test match after a freak accident chasing down a ball. It left them one bowler short in the hot weather and coupled with Hussain's error in putting Australia in to bat gifted the game to the home side.