Ashes 2013-14: England make hay in the Sydney sunshine Steve Finn provided England with a major selection dilemma for the First Test on Thursday. By completing a haul of five wickets in the final warm-up match the Middlesex fast bowler made it difficult to overlook him for the vacant third seamer's role in Brisbane next week. The tourists, who enjoyed a dominant second day against the Cricket Australia Invitation XI, have only one place left to fill in their preferred team. They finished on 302 for five with four of their top five having a sprightly time against a moderate attack. Finn's final figures of 5-103 disguised a wayward and frequently uncontrolled performance. While he was much better on the second morning than the first, and worked up a reasonable head of steam, it was hardly pace bowling of the type to instil terror into accomplished batsman. The tail of the Cricket Australia XI were only too ready to oblige. From the moment their robust overnight sixth wicket partnership was broken by Stuart Broad with the first ball of the day, a neat away swinger, they fell in a heap. Finn was soon in on the action, inciting a catch behind with a ball that moved and bounced and then took two more wickets with shorter pitched deliveries struck into the off-side cordon. It was the sort of swift demise to the innings that England craved having been detained much too long in the field on the first day. The selectors must decide if Finn's aptitude for taking wickets, apparently despite his form, should earn him selection ahead of Boyd Tonkin, who bowled too short again this morning, and Chris Tremlett, who may have done himself a favour by not playing in this game. England lost Michael Carberry early as he edged the new ball behind but their captain, Alastair Cook, and Jonathan Trott then built an untroubled partnership of 143. It was a surprise that neither made a hundred but both hung their bats outside off stump to offer catches at the wicket. They will feel that they have spent long enough at the crease and there is a limit to the benefits to be gleaned from tearing apart bowling that lacked any ruthlessness or much guile. Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell did much as they liked. Pietersen, bored with easy pickings, did everything he could to donate his wicket to the 20-year-old leg spinner James Muirhead, eventually achieving his aim with a slog drive that was caught in the deep. But he looked in good order.