The wicket of Andy Caddick was Jason Gillespie's 100th in Test cricket, the 29th Australian to reach this landmark. His first victim at Test level was another tall fast bowler, Curtley Ambrose, who was clean bowled at Sydney in 1996-97. His first wicket in an Ashes Test was that of Alec Stewart, caught by Matthew Elliott at Edgbaston in 1997. Gillespie's strike rate in Test cricket now stands at 43.89. Among bowlers who have taken 100 wickets, this puts him 4th on the all-time list, behind Waqar Younis (43.81), Sydney Barnes (41.66) and the great England medium-pacer George Lohmann, whose 34.12 is once again the best for any bowler with more than 25 wickets. We say once again because Brett Lee briefly took Lohmann's record - but his strike rate of 33.79 before the Lord's Test has risen to 35.75.

Warne's six-wicket haul
The last England wicket to fall, Alex Tudor caught by Ricky Ponting, was Shane Warne's sixth of the innings, making him the first bowler to take more than five in an Ashes innings at Trent Bridge since Alec Bedser's 7 for 55 and 7 for 44 in 1953. The last Australian to take more than five in a Trent Bridge Test was Bill O'Reilly, whose 7 for 54 in 1934 is Number 9 in the Wisden 100 and Number 5 in the Wisden Ashes Top Ten.

Warne neck-and-neck with McGrath
The last ball of the day completed Shane Warne's 18th five-wicket haul in Tests, bringing him level with Glenn McGrath (who took five in the first innings). They lie in joint-3rd place among Australian bowlers, behind Clarrie Grimmett (21) and Dennis Lillee (23).

The Top Ten

		Tests
Dennis Lillee	23	70
Clarrie Grimmett	21	37
Shane Warne	18	90
Glenn McGrath	18	73
Richie Benaud	16	63
Graham McKenzie	16	60
Alan Davidson	14	44
Terry Alderman	14	41
Craig McDermott	12	71
Ray Lindwall	12	61

The record for any country is Richard Hadlee's remarkable 36 times in 86 Tests for New Zealand.

Day 1 - Thursday, August 2, 2001

Australia's 1000-wicket club No wonder England's batsmen have been struggling. This Australian team is the greatest wicket-taking machine in Test history. When Shane Warne bowled Andy Caddick in the first innings at Lord's, it was the 1,003rd wicket the team had taken between them.

This broke the world record they shared with Pakistan - 'they' being nine of the same eleven players. The team that lined up at Chennai for the 3rd Test of the recent series in India included Justin Langer in place of Damien Martyn and, more to the point, Colin Miller in place of Brett Lee. They lost the match, and with it the series - but finished it with 1,002 Test wickets between them.

This equalled the record set by the Pakistan team that played at St John's in Antigua in 1999-2000. Again the record-setting team lost the match and with it the series, this time by only one wicket. If they'd broken the West Indies last-wicket stand, they would have held the record outright until Lord's. The vast majority of their 1,002 wickets were taken by only four bowlers: Wasim Akram (398), Waqar Younis (297), Mushtaq Ahmed (180) and Saqlain Mushtaq (116).

Meanwhile the bulk of Australia's 1,014 before Trent Bridge had been taken by Shane Warne (387) and McGrath (338). Jason Gillespie was next in line with 95 - and it's easy to overlook the contribution made by the Waugh twins. Steve hasn't bowled

Atherton's unwanted record
Mike Atherton's dismissal by Glenn McGrath was his 20th duck in Test cricket, breaking the England record of 19 he shared with Derek Underwood. The record for Australia is 22, held by McGrath himself.

Five for McGrath
When Glenn McGrath dismissed Alec Stewart, he became the first Australian to take five wickets in a Test innings at Trent Bridge since Merv Hughes took 5-92 in 1993.

Warne's ton-up
The dismissal of Robert Croft was Shane Warne's 100th wicket against England. He's the 18th bowler to reach that landmark in Ashes Tests, the 11th from Australia. Dennis Lillee heads the list with 167 wickets. Warne and Croft dismissed each other and hit sixes off each other in the fifth Test of the 1997 series, also at Trent Bridge.

An England tail
For England, winning the toss has become an event in itself. They'd lost it in each of their nine Tests before Trent Bridge, equalling the world record shared by India (1947-48 to 1951-52), New Zealand (1971-72 to 1973) and South Africa (1999-2000 to 2000-01).

Australia had won the toss in their last seven Tests against England, who even now have won it only twice in the last 15 Ashes Tests.

England have a share in both sides of the coin. They won the toss in 12 consecutive Tests, another world record, from the match against West Indies at Bridgetown in 1959-60 to the Lord's Test against Australia in 1961.

Australia also won 12 tosses in a row, from the Test against Pakistan at Peshawar in 1998-99 to the match with Sri Lanka at Kandy in 1999-2000.

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