Finally, Flintoff went for one more crashing boundary and inside-edged Siddle onto his stumps.

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Wriddhiman Saha followed shortly afterwards, also edging behind but this time off the bowling of Peter Siddle.

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Siddle and Bollinger, meanwhile, will provide pace bowling back-up for Brett Lee, Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson.

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