Johnson makes a grab for Ashes Peter Siddle claims Kevin Pietersen's wicket for the 10th time. It was the wonder catch that may just return the Ashes to Australia and who else to take it than Mitchell Johnson. The reborn fast bowler can do no wrong this summer, tearing through England with man-of-the-match performances in Brisbane and Adelaide. There wasn't a repeat of the haul of wickets on day two of the third Test in Perth but if events pan out here it appears they are destined to, they will be replaying his grab late on Saturday for years. The WACA was left jumping in exhilaration when Johnson leapt high at mid-on to remove England's rock star batsman Kevin Pietersen, who looked to be standing between Australia's desire to secure an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series here. Peter Siddle, the bowler, roared. It was the 10th time he had undone Pietersen, the third in a row in this series, but undoubtedly the most important of the lot. Realising the gravity of the situation, Pietersen had played arguably the most out-of-character innings of his career, not to mention the slowest. Siddle did not hide his emotion after dismissing Pietersen. Ducking and weaving short-pitched thunderbolts from Johnson before the left-armer's parochial adopted home crowd, England's No. 4 looked ready to ditch the showmanship for stubbornness to restore some life to the tourists' flagging fortunes. He took 15 balls to get off the mark, 44 to bring up a boundary, and after facing 40 balls had only four to his name. When he moved out of the way of another Johnson flyer that shot past his helmet, he was mocked by the main man of the Australian attack, who mimicked Pietersen's evasion after his follow-through. In extreme temperatures Australia's bowlers had built pressure effectively on Pietersen and England captain Alastair Cook (72), reducing the visitors' scoring to a crawl. In the 20 overs after the drinks break following lunch they put on only 30 runs. Responding to the 385 set by Michael Clarke's team, England's two senior batsmen took it upon themselves to withstand the onslaught and turn around disappointing personal campaigns this summer. But the heat applied by Clarke's attack finally paid off in the afternoon. An opening arrived when Cook, after dealing with everything directed at him by Johnson, Ryan Harris and Siddle, was removed with an ugly chop at spinner Nathan Lyon that was caught smartly by David Warner at backward point. Pietersen had never really found his groove and in an effort to get into his stride had hit two fours off Johnson in an over. The first of them, a nick through the slips, brought up 8000 career runs for the 33-year-old. But in the very next over when, on 19, he went to hit out at his bogeyman Siddle. It seemed he had cleared the fieldsman at mid-on but Johnson, with a wonderful display of athleticism, had other ideas and England's resistance was in pieces at 4-146. By stumps it was 4-180, the job left to Ian Bell (9 not out) and second-gamer Ben Stokes (14 not out) to produce something special to mount an unlikely fightback. England had made an enterprising start through Cook and Michael Carberry (43) but when the latter chopped Harris onto his stumps and then Joe Root (4) was controversially given out caught behind it was left to the captain and his star No. Australia's ability to restrict Cook and Pietersen has been central to its success. Cook has averaged 30 and Pietersen 24. Australia (1st Innings - overnight 6-326) C ROGERS run out (Anderson) 11 D WARNER c Carberry b Swann 60 S WATSON c Swann b Broad 18 M CLARKE c Cook b Swann 24 S SMITH c Prior b Anderson 111 G BAILEY c Pietersen b Broad 7 B HADDIN c Anderson b Stokes 55 M JOHNSON c Prior b Broad 39 P SIDDLE c Prior b Bresnan 21 R HARRIS c Root b Anderson 12 N LYON not out 17 Sundries (6lb, 3w, 1nb) 10 Total 385 Fall of wickets: 13 (Rogers), 52 (Watson), 106 (Clarke), 129 (Warner), 143 (Bailey), 267 (Haddin), 326 (Johnson), 338 (Smith), 354 (Harris), 385 (Siddle) Bowling: J Anderson 23-5-60-2 (1w), S Broad 22-2-100-3 (1w), T Bresnan 23.3-4-81-1, B Stokes 17-3-63-1 (1w 1nb), G Swann 17-0-71-2, J Root 1-0-4-0 England (Ist innings) A COOK c Warner b Lyon 72 M CARBERRY b Harris 43 J ROOT c Haddin b Watson 4 K PIETERSEN c Johnson b Siddle 19 I BELL not out 9 B STOKES not out 14 Sundries (10b, 3lb, 5w, 1nb) 19 Total (4 wkts - close) 180 Fall of wickets: 85 (Carberry), 90 (Root), 136 (Cook), 146 (Pietersen) Bowling: R Harris 15-7-26-1, M Johnson 15-6-43-0 (1nb), S Watson 9-2-32-1, P Siddle 13-5-27-1 (1w/5), N Lyon 16-6-39-1.