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感谢Michael Clarke，他拯救了澳洲队。了不起的test match century。更重要的是他守住了第五比赛日，他和North几乎奋战了一整天创造了澳洲队的历史。
Clarke and North secure draw
AAP 4 August 2009
Marcus North and Michael Clarke put on a match-saving partnership of 185 [GETTY]
Captain-in-waiting Michael Clarke showed he was Australia's man for a crisis by batting the side to safety on the final day of the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
Clarke (103no) and Marcus North (96) put on a fifth-wicket stand of 185 in three and a half hours to dash England's hopes of victory as the match ended in a draw.
Australia were 5-375 in their second innings, a lead of 262 runs, when the captains agreed to call the game off 13.4 overs early in the weather-affected clash.
Clarke has been in superb touch in this series, having made 352 runs at 88, and backed up his 136 in the fourth innings at Lord's with his 12th Test century on Monday.
He batted for the best part of five hours and his partnership with North was a national record for the fifth wicket at the ground, surpassing the 153 put on by Steve and Mark Waugh in 1993.
The last time Australia batted all day to save a Test was against England at Old Trafford in 2005.
The result left the home side holding a 1-0 lead with two matches to be played with the fourth Test starting at Headingley on Friday.
Captain Ricky Ponting felt his side had some positives come out of the match despite being dominated for the majority of it.
"Marcus and Michael led the way with a terrific partnership," he said.
"All in all, we've had more individuals this last part of the game contribute more, that's the way I'll look at it.
"We've fought it out right at the end, which is something I expect of any Australian player."
Clarke and North were hardly troubled with England's pacemen unable to produce the swing that allowed them to rip through the tourists in the first innings at Lord's and at Edgbaston.
Spinner Graeme Swann (1-119) was disappointing, being unable to back up the fine over he produced on the evening of fourth day that removed Ponting (5).
North missed out on his third hundred in his fifth Test about 40 minutes before the close by edging a wide Stuart Broad (2-38) ball with James Anderson plucking a spectacular catch at gully.
Clarke had a stack of good fortune in his knock. He was dropped on 38 by England skipper Andrew Strauss and then on 92 a Broad delivery glanced off the outside of the off stump without removing the bails.
To top it all, he was caught on 96 by Anderson at second slip off a Ravi Bopara no-ball before eventually pulling the part-timer for four to bring up his hundred and that ended proceedings.
"I've seen the ball hit the stumps and the bail not come off before," said Clarke.
"Stuart Broad appealed and I got nowhere near it, so at that stage I thought it must have nicked the stump. Paul Collingwood said it did.
"When it's your day, it's your day, I guess."
Strauss didn't believe his drop made a great difference.
"Things were getting a little last throw of the dice time really," he said.
"You never know, if I'd caught that with the new ball around the corner, but given the fact it didn't swing, it was always going to be hard to prise batsmen out."
Ponting said wicketkeeper Brad Haddin's broken finger would be monitored over the next few days and he is still a chance of coming back in for stand-in Graham Manou (13no) in Leeds.
Mike Hussey (64) and Shane Watson (53) made a positive start after the side resumed at the precarious position of 2-88, still 25 runs behind.
Farewelling all rounder Andrew Flintoff enjoyed working over Watson, hitting him three times including one nasty blow on the batsman's forearm with a big, red bruise quickly surfacing.
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