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Australia on top against World XI

Australia have a commanding lead in the six-day Super Test after bowling out the World XI for 190 in Sydney.

Leg-spinners Stuart MacGill and Shane Warne did the damage for the home side, claiming seven wickets between them.

By the close of play on day two, Australia had advanced to 66-1, a lead of 221 runs, with Jacques Kallis dismissing Justin Langer for 22.

Earlier, England's Andrew Flintoff scored 35, including four sixes, in the World XI's first innings and took 4-59.

A total of 15 wickets fell on day and Flintoff looked to have swung the game in the visitors' favour after reducing Australia to 345 all out, losing their last four wickets for 14 runs.

He removed Adam Gilchrist for 94 and also claimed Shane Warne and Brett Lee before Glenn McGrath was run out.

But Australia's bowlers hit back to leave the World XI with a huge task to win the game.

Pacemen Lee and McGrath inflicted the damage before lunch before the spin pair of Warne and MacGill took centre stage.

Lee had World skipper Graeme Smith caught behind for 12, while McGrath removed Rahul Dravid and Brian Lara.

Dravid was caught by wicket-keeper Gilchrist for a duck while Lara was lbw for five.

Those two scalps took McGrath past West Indian Courtney Walsh's world record of 519 for the most wickets by a fast bowler.

India's Virender Sehwag and South African Kallis steadied the World XI ship after lunch until Sehwag holed out to Simon Katich off Warne after making 76.

Inzamam-ul-Haq was out for one in the following over, stumped by Gilchrist off MacGill.

And the World XI's worries deepened when Kallis went for 44, caught by Matthew Hayden off Warne.

In the same over, South Africa's Mark Boucher was caught behind by Gilchrist, again off Warne, for a duck.

Flintoff was dismissed by MacGill for 35 after smashing him for four sixes and the spinner wrapped up the innings by dismissing Harmison and Muralitharan to record figures of 4-39 off 9.1 overs.

Australia got off to a good start in their second innings before Langer was caught at slip by Smith from Kallis' angled delivery.

Bad light ended play early with 13 overs to go, with Hayden 27 not out and Ponting unbeaten on 17.

source: bbc.cm