Kevin Pietersen hits on to the leg side in England's tour game versus a Cricket Australia's Invitational XI. Source: Rob Griffith / AP
Kevin Pietersen proved his fitness for next week's Ashes opener with a breezy half-century as England closed on the Cricket Australia Invitational XI's first-innings total in their tour game Thursday.
Pietersen, who had a cortisone injection for a troublesome knee earlier this week, cracked 57 runs off 71 balls as he tuned up for his 100th Test, starting in Brisbane on November 21.
Jonathan Trott (83) and skipper Alastair Cook (81) also spent valuable batting time in the middle, as England's top order fine-tuned for the first Test at the Gabba, reaching 5-302 at the close on the second day of the four-day tour match in Sydney.
At stumps, Joe Root was 26 not out and Jonny Bairstow was unbeaten on 11. England trailed by just two runs on the first innings after Steven Finn earlier staked his claim for the first Test fast bowling vacancy, finishing with five wickets for 103 to help dismiss the home side for 304 midway through the first session.
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In Brisbane, Nathan Lyon made a late but impressive entrance at Allan Border Field as NSW took control of their Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland.
Lyon was kept away from the attack until the 50th over of Queensland's innings as the Bulls finished the day 9-216 in reply to NSW's 368.
The 25-year-old tweaker bowled well when given his chance, claiming the scalps of Bulls Chris Hartley (11) and Cameron Boyce (0) as he ended with figures of 2-10 from eight overs.
Former Test bowler Trent Copeland (5-49) was the main destroyer for the Blues, picking up his 10th first-class five-wicket haul to rip through the Bulls' top order.
In Adelaide, half-centuries to South Australia opening batsmen Michael Klinger and Phil Hughes wasn't enough to overshadow Ashton Agar's class with the bat for Western Australia at Adelaide Oval.
The 20-year-old Agar who made a shock Test debut in the Ashes opener at Trent Bridge in June, reminded selectors of his precocious talent as he fell heartbreakingly short of a maiden first-class century with a well-crafted 93 in the Warriors' total of 434. The left-arm spinner salvaged his side's innings along with Sam Whiteman (65) in a record 147-run seventh-wicket partnership after the visitors had sunk to 6-200 on day one.
Seamer Nathan Coulter-Nile then chipped in with quickfire 41 that included four sixes and three fours to take the visitors past the 400 mark.
But the Redbacks responsed well to see out the day at 0-148 - trailing by 286 runs - thanks to Hughes (63no) and Klinger (76no).
In Hobart, Test allrounder James Faulkner has been instructed to bowl a limited number of overs in Tasmania's Sheffield Shield match against Victoria.
Faulkner surprised by delivering just seven overs on Wednesday and 10 on day two for figures of 1-50.
But the left-armer has revealed he is being managed through the match by Cricket Australia after he was named in the squad for the first Ashes Test beginning next week.
Faulkner's limited work for the Tigers came as Victoria reached a formidable first innings 6-339 after two rain-disrupted days. Former Test gloveman Matthew Wade cracked an unbeaten 107, bringing up his seventh first-class ton with a pull shot for six over mid-wicket.
Another former Test batsman, Rob Quiney, made 82, while night watchman Scott Boland stuck around for more than four hours to make 51 from 213 balls.
Spinner Xavier Doherty was the best of the Tasmanian bowlers with 2-42 from 26 overs.
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