ANDERSON: WE FEEL LIKE WE CAN CHASE ANYTHING DOWN

England's premier seamer was bullish after day three of the second Ashes Test

Jimmy Anderson has insisted England still believe they can win the second Ashes Test.

The tourists were bundled out for 227, a deficit of 215 on first innings, in Adelaide on Monday but were not asked to bat again by Australia captain Steve Smith.

Declining to enforce the follow-on, Smith instead sent his openers out under the lights at the Adelaide Oval, where they were quickly sent packing by the English seam attack.

By the end of the final session, Australia had been reduced to 53 for four in their second innings.

That still gives the hosts a lead of 268, with six wickets remaining, but Anderson has not given up hope.

"I think we've got to look at it positively if we can bowl them out cheaply, which we're going to have to do. We feel like we can chase anything down," said the Lancashire paceman.

"The pitch has not got any demons in it. There's no lavish sideways movement or anything like that or up-and-down movement. It was all swing today.

"We've got a lot of hard work still to do with the ball and then if we can bowl them out cheaply we can get these runs in a good chase."

^{Jimmy Anderson in action for England in Adelaide}

Anderson said England had been somewhat taken aback by the amout of aerial movement they got out of the ball on the third evening.

"We weren't expecting as much swing as we got there. Under lights it did a lot more than we expected. Even when it's doing the amount it did you've still got to get the ball in the right areas," he said.

"I think we learnt from the first innings. We didn't quite bowl full enough in the first innings so we made a point of trying to get it up there and find the edge, get the lbw's which we did. And I thought we deserved the four wickets today.

"I think there was a lot of disappointment after our batting performance, frustration was in there and we wanted to show that we're not just here to roll over and we needed to show a bit of fight and get ourselves back into this game because we didn't do ourselves justice with the bat. 

"We all did that. The fielders all did a brilliant job and all four bowlers did a fantastic job too."

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