Lunch England 255 and 0 for 54 (Cook 41*, Carberry 5*) lead Australia 204 (Haddin 65, Rogers 61, Anderson 4-67) by 105 runs
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Australia's captain Michael Clarke resorted to the medium pace of Shane Watson as England strengthened their grip on the Boxing Day Test before lunch on day three.
Alastair Cook and Michael Carberry were largely untroubled in their stand, the England captain particularly positive in approach and stretching the lead of 51 his bowlers had secured with diligent work on the second evening.
Carberry was happy to ride in his leader's slipstream, their vast scoring differential of little concern to England as the advantage mounted.
Clarke, so dominant for much of the series, was left bereft of options, and called on Watson to bowl despite the allrounder suffering a groin strain in the first innings. He bowled gingerly but could not take a wicket, seeing a Carberry edge fall short of slip, as the lead grew to 105 by the interval.
Australia's last pair had added 40 on the third morning but still left the hosts worryingly short of England's first innings. Brad Haddin fell to James Anderson for 65, an innings that gave him the record for the most runs scored by a wicketkeeper in an Ashes series.
Nathan Lyon remained unbeaten on 18, a pesky innings that temporarily frustrated England and forced Cook to take the second new ball. The partnership had lasted 45 minutes of the morning session when Anderson chased Haddin with a bouncer, the resulting top eged pull clasped by Jonny Bairstow, his fourth catch of the innings.
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