James Anderson [ Images ] took two cheap wickets as England [ Images ] rebounded from the loss of three batsmen in as many overs on the second morning of the second Ashes Test against Australia [ Images ] at Lord's on Friday.
Anderson contributed 29 runs to an enterprising last wicket partnership of 47 from 53 balls with Graham Onions [ Images ] (17 not out) which took England to 425 in their first innings.
He then dismissed Phillip Hughes (4) with the third ball of his second over caught behind from a ball which brushed the Australia opener's glove as he tried to hook.
Captain Ricky Ponting [ Images ] followed for two, given out caught at first slip by his opposite number Andrew Strauss [ Images ]. Umpire Rudi Koertzen [ Images ] consulted with his colleague Billy Doctrove [ Images ] to see if the ball had carried after England had appealed for lbw.
At lunch, after a fiery opening burst from Anderson and Andrew Flintoff [ Images ], Australia were 22 for two.
England lost Strauss from the second ball of the day, when he was bowled without adding to his overnight score of 161.
Strauss left a delivery from Ben Hilfenhaus [ Images ], bowling from the Nursery end, which nipped back and struck his off-stump.
Graeme Swann [ Images ] was caught for four at second slip by Ponting off the next over from Peter Siddle [ Images ] and Stuart Broad [ Images ] (16) followed in the third over of the day, playing the ball on to his stumps.
Anderson brought up the 400 with a back-foot drive for four through the covers off Mitchell Johnson [ Images ], struck another in the same direction and then got a thin edge which sped to the fine-leg boundary.
He was finally caught in the gully by Michael Hussey [ Images ] off Johnson, whose three wickets had cost 132 runs. Hilfenhaus was the pick of the bowlers with four for 103.

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