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Siddle and Marsh cut through feeble England

ESPNcricinfo staff
Steven Smith began the second day steadily....  Getty Images
... and brought up his 11th Test hundred 20 minutes before lunch  Getty Images
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At the other end, Adam Voges struck his second successive fifty-plus score before he was pinned lbw for 76 by Ben Stokes  AFP
Steven Finn could have had Smith on 92 for his 100th Test wicket if he had not landed on the wrong side of the line by about five inches  AFP
Finn would soon celebrate when he found the outside edge of Mitchell Marsh; Ian Bell snapping up a good overhead catch  AFP
Moeen Ali then struck twice in three balls to prop up the hosts before lunch  AFP
Mitchell Starc clattered some blows and assembled 58 in a 91-run partnership for the eighth wicket  Getty Images
Steve Smith became the leading run-scorer in the series before falling for 143  Getty Images
In reply, Alastair Cook started positively before being bowled by a beauty from Nathan Lyon ...  AFP
... Cook's departure for 22 opened the floodgates in England's innings  AFP
Adam Lyth started watchfully in what looks like his make-or-break Test match ...  AFP
... but on 19, he played a horrible shot to fall to Peter Siddle  AFP
Siddle's wicket was from his second ball of the series  AFP
Joe Root got off the mark with a first-ball four ...  AFP
... but was caught behind for 6 as Mitchell Marsh found a thin nick  AFP
Marsh claimed three wickets in 14 balls to wreck England's middle order  PA Photos
... while Lyon chipped in with the scalp of Jos Buttler for 1  PA Photos
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