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Sydney: England has all but secured its first Test series victory in Australia in 23 years after posting a record total and moving within three wickets of another innings victory in the fifth Test.
Matt Prior scored the third hundred of the innings before England was dismissed for 644 - its highest total ever in Australia - shortly after lunch on Thursday.
Then Jimmy Anderson, Tim Bresnan and Chris Tremlett took two wickets apiece to have Australia reeling on 213-7 at stumps on the penultimate day, needing another 151 runs just to make England bat again.
England, which had already retained the Ashes by taking a 2-1 lead with an innings victory at Melbourne last week, looks certain to claim a Test series Down Under for the first time since 1987.
he home side lost a disastrous 3-10 late in the day as England's seamers ripped through the middle and lower order.
Debutant Usman Khawaja (21), skipper Michael Clarke (41), Mike Hussey (12), Brad Haddin (30) and Mitchell Johnson (0) all fell after tea in ideal batting conditions.
With just three wickets in hand, Australia needs an improbable 151 runs to avoid their third innings defeat of the summer.
Steve Smith (24) and Peter Siddle (17) will resume the fight on Friday morning after surviving a tense final half-hour in front of a raucous 35,622 crowd.
England spearhead James Anderson (2-50) set the tone when he removed Khawaja and Clarke in his opening spell after tea, while Chris Tremlett (2-53) was on a hat-trick late in the day after claiming Haddin and Johnson with consecutive deliveries.
It was a dream day for Andrew Strauss' men after earlier posting 644 - their highest ever score on Australian soil with wicket keeper Matt Prior (118) becoming the third centurion of the innings.
Khawaja's first boundary of the innings, a classy cover drive off Graeme Swann (0-63), brought up the 50 partnership with Clarke just after tea.
He followed up with a glorious pull shot off Anderson's bowling that also found the boundary to give the home fans a glimmer of hope.
But England's swing maestro responded emphatically, dismissing the debutant with a peach of a delivery that straightened off the seam and collected the outside edge en route to Prior behind the stumps.
Anderson produced another gem to dismiss Clarke and cap a miserable series for the stand-in skipper.
Clarke jabbed at an outswinger and edged to Prior who swallowed his 21st dismissal of the series.
Hussey was also caught behind the wicket after he thrashed an attempted cut shot to Pietersen in the gully off Tim Bresnan's (2-32) bowling.
Haddin was next to go when he failed to diffuse a Tremlett bouncer and spooned a catch to Prior before Johnson played all around the first ball he faced to send the Barmy Army into a frenzy.
Brief scores
Australia 280 and 213 for 7 (Clarke 41)
England 644 (Cook 189, Prior 118, Bell 115, Johnson 4-168)
Status Australia trail by 151 runs
