Hoggard captured seven wickets as England took a 97-run lead over Australia with nine second-innings wickets in hand.
England's cricketers say they still have a long way to go to win the second Ashes Test against Australia.
"Make 700 and bowl them out for under 150 on the last day," Buchanan told a news conference when asked about his team's strategy.
Doubts about the fitness of Australia's Glenn McGrath have left England wondering whether history is about to repeat itself in the second Ashes Test.
Ian Bell made 132 and Paul Collingwood scored 80 on the second day of England's tour game against South Australia.
A detailed statistical analysis of the four-match series.
Australia completed a 2-1 series victory over India when the fourth and final Test ended in a draw at the Adelaide Oval.
The buzz is that Sachin Tendulkar may be on his last tour of Australia but the master batsman is not ruling out returning to play Test cricket Down Under in future.
'We are expecting him (Dhoni) to be 100 percent in the next few days.' 'It's a big moment for me personally'
'To have Glenn Maxwell sitting in the sheds ready to go with two, three overs to go, I think that's a pretty powerful position for our cricket side to be in'
Rohit Sharma smashed 150 as India outclassed minnows Afghanistan by 153 runs in the World Cup warm-up match in Adelaide.
Ricky Ponting believes Australia could risk blowing their chances of winning the second Test against India if they are too greedy for runs.
Dashing England batsman Kevin Pietersen named Kanpur's Green Park and Ahmedabad's Motera among the 10 worst stadiums where he has played cricket in all these years. Green Park and Motera does have company from other notable venues like Guyana and Manchester's Old Trafford to name a few. Pietersen also termed Gabba as the "11th worst ground" after being asked name 10 by his followers on Twitter. The other grounds that did not find favour with Pietersen are Chelmsford, Colwyn Bay, Canberra, Multan, Leicester and St Kitts. However he rated Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium as one of the 10 best venues that he has played cricket on.
The 21-year-old is now level with Englishman Jack Russell (vs South Africa at Johannesburg in 1995) and South Africa's AB de Villiers (vs Pakistan at Johannesburg in 2013).
Sri Lanka scored an upset 22-run win over Australia in the first one-day final at Adelaide Oval on Friday.
Australia captain Michael Clarke skipped training to rest his injured ankle on Tuesday but Cricket Australia said he would be fit to face England in this week's second Ashes at the Adelaide Oval.
Virat Kohli is the quickest among all subcontinent players to score 1,000 runs in Australia. Rajneesh Gupta has all the numbers.
Handling the spotlight and the probing questions from the fourth estate can be difficult for first-time international players and Cricket Australia prefers not to leave anything to chance.
The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has been taken into custody by counter-terrorism police
The Australians ended the day 4 in the third Test against the West Indies on 76 for 2, needing 106 runs more for victory.
The West Indies were 68 for 2 in their second innings at stumps on day 3 of the third Test, after Australia had taken a first innings lead of 23 runs.
Allan Border congratulated Brian Lara after the West Indian broke his world record for Test runs.
The West Indies ace scored a brilliant 226 in the third Test against Australia to lift his career tally to 11,187 runs from 121 Tests, eclipsing the record of 11,174 held by Allan Border.
'We can't be happy with just one Test match. We will not be satisfied with just one Test. Yes we are happy about this victory but this is something we need to build on. We literally have nothing to lose'
Australia captain Ricky Ponting and his team were among an estimated 15,000 mourners who gathered to pay their respects at the funeral of David Hookes at the Adelaide Oval.
The Australian opener became the first player in Test cricket to score 1,000 runs in four consecutive calendar years.
Australia fast bowlers Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood will miss the tour of South Africa to rest ahead of a busy international programme at home, Cricket Australia said on Friday.
Warner, himself, said he had no regrets but admitted he was thinking about Lara's record as he motored past 300.
Four persons have been injured when a brawl broke out between cricket fans watching the tense India-Pakistan World Cup match on television at a Sydney club.
The ICC approved Nasir Jamshed as a replacement for injured Mohammad Hafeez in Pakistan's squad for the World Cup, starting February 14.
Brett Lee captured four wickets and smashed 38 runs in a fine allround performance to steer Australia to a 73-run win over West Indies.
Chandu Borde, manager on India's last tour to Pakistan in 1989, looks back on that series, and discusses India's chances on the one coming up.
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