Australia still targeting Lord's win.

AUSTRALIA will have to break new ground if they are to take a 1-0 lead in this Ashes series.

They will resume today at Lord's needing a further 209 for victory.

It was looking ever unlikely at one stage after slipping to 128-5 chasing a total of 522 set by England for victory.

"At the moment we're feeling pretty good about the position we're in knowing that tomorrow if we play as well as we know we can, we've got a real chance of winning the Test match," insisted coach Tim Nielsen.

"We've never talked about saving this Test match.

"There's a feeling of excitement and opportunity."

Ricky Ponting's men could be forgiven for feeling slightly annoyed by the dismissals of three of their top order batsmen, but Nielsen was refusing to dwell on such decision.

Simon Katich was dismissed off a no-ball, TV replays cast doubt on the validity of Andrew Strauss' low catch to dismiss Phillip Hughes and Michael Hussey appeared to miss the ball completely as it went to slip off Graeme Swann.

"We can't do anything about that," he said. "We knew at times things would go our way and things wouldn't whether it would be umpiring decisions or weather or how we were playing.

"I would have liked to have seen Strauss' catch go to the third umpire from a consistency point of view.

"In the end we've all seen the replays and we can all make our decisions and at the moment the scorebook says Phillip Hughes is sitting up with me."

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Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting