Captain Ricky Ponting and Simon Katich both hit centuries to get Australia to 249-1 at the end of the second day of the first Ashes cricket Test in Cardiff in response to Englands 435 all out. Katich scored 104, his first century in an Ashes Test, while Ponting ended the day with 100. Phillip Hughes scored 36 before he edged to wicketkeeper Matt Prior off the bowling of Andrew Flintoff. Spinners Monty Panesar and Graeme Swann helped slow down the scoring after Hughes made his brisk start, but Ponting and Katich finished the day untroubled by Englands bowlers. Swann was 0-49, while Panesar was 0-31. Stuart Broad was 0-58, and was off the pitch for several overs to treat an injured leg.
