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Australia's 75-year unbeaten record at Lord's is facing its greatest threat, after England's seamers scythed through the tourists' top-order on a rain-interrupted second day at Lord's. James Anderson and Andrew Flintoff bowled with a measure of pace, movement and accuracy that eluded Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle in the preceding innings, and placed England in a position of dominance with Australia still requiring 70 runs to avoid the follow-on. Anderson claimed 4 wickets for just 36 runs with the ball as well as contributing an important 29 runs in an impressive record-breaking last wicket stand.England posted a total of 425 all out before lunch, which felt like an underachievement given the benign conditions yesterday, however, Englands bowlers really got out of the blocks this time and had a struggling Australia 8 wickets down for just 156 runs when play was suspended for bad light after a rain interrupted afternoon.
