Published: Sep 03, 2015, 05:27 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 02:10 PM (IST)
Welcome to CricketCountry’s coverage of the first One-Day International (ODI) between England and Australia, in Southampton. The last time the two teams met in an ODI, in the World Cup earlier this year, Australia thrashed England by 111 runs. James Taylor, the batsman for Nottinghamshire, remained stranded on 98 due to an umpiring misjudgement, and he is inducted in the side in place of the rested Joe Root today. Jason Roy, the 25-year old for Surrey, who had a middling debut series against New Zealand in June, is likely to retain his place at the top of the order. World Champions Australia will not have the services of scintillating opener Aaron Finch due to a foot injury, and James Faulkner is not considered for selection for this series due to a four-match ban for drunk driving. The last time the two sides met in an ODI was in the World Cup, but the then jittery England have lifted themselves to give a better account of themselves in the format, making them a more difficult team for world champions Australia to beat. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: England vs Australia, 1st ODI, Southampton
A flurry of wickets in the middle of the innings put paid to England’s hopes of clinching the chase, as they had had a good platform provided to them by the openers and the No. 3 James Taylor. When Taylor and Eoin Mogan were getting boundaries regularly and playing confidently, England were smooth. But Taylor got out trying to play an aggressive stroke to Shane Watson. Morgan fell to a short ball down the leg side, and thereafter the middle order crumbled. Australia’s attack was heavy: Starc and Cummins wee fast and aggressive, Coulter-Nile bowled back-of-a-length and cramped batsmen, and Watson and Marsh were handy back-up seamers. Watson’s two wickets of Taylor and Morgan were crucial in Australia’s win. From 172 for 3, they were reduced to 194 for 7. Read more on the chase here.
Man of the Match: Matthew Wade
Wade says he was happy for the good start in the series. He was looking to knuckle down with Marsh. He was not sure about the total to score, but wanted to maximise. But he would have been happy with 10 or 15 more runs.
Steven Smith acknowledges the stutter in the middle in their innings, and says it was a good effort by the lower order to get them to 305, which was about par. It was nice to see the openers scoring runs. He would like to assess situations for every game and decide on the bowling attack, but his attack has done well over a period of time and they were world champions due to their contribution.
Eoin Morgan says England were a better side than that, and that the match was lost in the few overs in the middle of their chase. He is pleased with Adil Rashid, to hold his nerve against a good Australian side is impressive. He doesn’t see this as a major setback, today was their opportunity to beat them, but he was looking forward to Lord’s.
Live Cricket Score England 246 | Overs 45.3 (Target 306): Bowled! After some cavalier batting from both tailenders, the adventure finally came to an end when Finn lined Cummins up to slog towards cow corner but missed the ball, to have his stumps knocked back. Not Out: Mark Wood 10 (10)
OUT! Steven Finn b Cummins 10 (13)
Live Cricket Score England 241/9 | Overs 44 (Target 306): Starc bowls a fast over, with short balls and full ones. There are three singles to be had from it. Finn, off the last delivery, a full one, tries to play a big stroke through the off side, gets an edge, but the third man puts in a dive to keep it to one. Finn is bowled a shot delivery on his ribs, but he had anticipated that, and plays a tailender pull to midwicket, off Cummins. He receives a full toss, but hits it one bounce to the man at mid on. He gets a worked single off the final ball, and thereby completes six runs from the over. Batting: Mark Wood 9 (8), Steven Finn 6 (10)
Live Cricket Score England 232/9 | Overs 42 (Target 306): Cummins charges in, the second short ball in the over has Moeen Ali attempting the lofted pull, but he top edges it to Marsh at midwicket! That was a slower ball, Ali was too quick for the shot. Ali was looking at ease against Australia’s bowling, unlike is lower-order counterparts, but he’s gone now. Batting: Mark Wood 7 (6)
OUT! Moeen Ali c Marsh b Cummins 17 (18)
Live Cricket Score England 224/8 | Overs 41 (Target 306): Ali has played a couple of neat, elegant drives down the ground. A few other runs have been worked here and there, and an edge behind! Rashid cannot resist an edge off a fast, full ball angling into him by Starc, and provides a catch to the wicketkeeper. The required run-rate is inching towards nine an over. The state of affairs has changed pretty quickly. Mark Wood, the No. 10., gets a bottom edge past slip to the third-man boundary. Ali has played a third elegant drive for four. Batting: Moeen Ali 16 (14), Mark Wood 5 (4)
OUT! Adil Rashid c Wade b Starc 11 (11)
Live Cricket Score England 199/7 | Overs 37 (Target 306): Watson bowls fast and short, Morgan goes for the pull, but gets a glove to the wicketkeeper down the leg side! And in the next over from Coulter-Nile, Buttler off-rives straight to Marsh at mid-off! And a third! Coulter-Nile gets a ball down the leg side, and Woakes gets a glove down the leg side! The hat-trick is averted when a full toss is averted by Adil Rashid, who gets a drive to cover. Batting: Adil Rashid 4 (4),Moeen Ali 0 (1)
OUT! Chris Woakes c Wade b Coulter-Nile 0 (1)
OUT! Buttler c Marsh b Coulter-Nile 4 (10)
OUT! Morgan c Wade b Watson 38 (46)
Live Cricket Score England 192/4 | Overs 35 (Target 306): Watson bowls an accurate over with his conventional deliveries and some leg cutters, but the first ball is hit for a four to mid-off. Off Coulter-Nile, Morgan cuts to backward point for a four. The required run-ate is more than 7.50 per over. Batting: Eoin Morgan 37 (42), Jos Buttler 3 (8)
Live Cricket Score England 176/4 | Overs 33 (Target 306): Stokes looks to work a ball to leg but chips it straight to the man at short midwicket, Joe Burns! The rest of the over is a quiet one, but Starc is getting late swing, something that may help Australia. Batting: Eoin Morgan 23 (35), Jos Buttler 1 (3)
OUT! Ben Stokes c Burns b Starc 13 (23)
Live Cricket Score England 172/3 | Overs 32 (Target 306): Starc bowls a quiet over to Stokes to mitigate his bowling figures after the thrashing he received in his first spell. Stokes stays in his crease and mightily pulls a short ball from Maxwell to loft a four to the square leg boundary. Batting: Eoin Morgan 20 (33), Ben Stokes 13 (22)
Live Cricket Score England 164/3 | Overs 30 (Target 306): Starc now comes in to bowl, after his indifferent first spell. He is running in hiding the ball from the batsman’s view. Is he attempting reverse-swing? He is getting a bit of swing in the air, some late swing, so maybe he is. This is a quiet over. On the second ball, Stokes hits the ball hard straight back at him, but it was too quick for Starc in his follow through. There is an appeal for caught behind, as Wade went up excitedly off an attempted reverse-sweep by Morgan, the umpire rules not out, the review is taken by a surprised Australia, and the third umpire rules ‘there is clear daylight between bat and the ball’. Batting: Eoin Morgan 20 (30), Ben Stokes 5 (13)
Live Cricket Score England 160/3 | Overs 28 (Target 306): Taylor steps down the track against Watson and is bowled! Taylor was looking to be busy, as he usually does, but this time, he misjudged the length of Watson’s ball, and could not adjust well to the bowler’s length. The short-of-a-length ball goes through him as he comes down the track, and disturbs the stumps. Off the previous ball, he had got a streaky boundary off an inside edge past the keeper. Nevertheless, it was a sparkling little innings from the diminutive man.
Coulter-Nile bowls a quiet over Morgan and Ben Stokes, the new man, before Morgan comes down the track to loft him over mid-on for a lovely boundary. Batting: Eoin Morgan 19 (26), Ben Stokes 2 (5)
OUT! James Taylor b Watson 49 (51)
Live Cricket Score England 148/2 | Overs 26 (Target 306): Taylor is aware and keen on quick singles, and an awkwardly defended ball by Morgan has Taylor calling for a single. He turns two balls from Watson off his legs for two braces. Halfway through, and Coulter-Nile is back to bowl. He gives away two singles, to cover (off Morgan) and to third man (off Taylor). Batting: James Taylor 45 (49), Eoin Morgan 13 (21)
Live Cricket Score England 140/2 | Overs 24 (Target 306): Pat Cummins has his hands on his head as a ball just outside off stump has Morgan getting a bottom edge past the wicketkeeper for four. That could have grazed the off stump. In the next over by Maxwell, Taylor uses his feet well to drive towards deep mid-on for a single, turns a ball to leg to get another, and a third, and there are two other worked singles by Morgan. Batting: James Taylor 39 (43), Eoin Morgan 11 (15)
Live Cricket Score England 128/2 | Overs 22 (Target 306): Taylor gets an off-drive off an overpitched delivery nicely through extra cover for a four. Maxwell, in the next over, is chipped down the ground by Taylor for a four through mid-off. Taylor stepped down the track to get to the pitch, and went through with his chip despite not reaching the pitch completely. But it was a nicely adjusted shot. Batting: James Taylor 34 (37), Eoin Morgan 4 (9)
Live Cricket Score England 117/2 | Overs 20 (Target 306): Taylor hits a powerful pull off his waist, but the ball is stopped at the square leg boundary and two runs are taken. No more runs are taken off full and fast Pat Cummins. Maxwell fires in balls on a length, outside off, and in the fourth ball, a risky single is taken in which Taylor dives in to prevent getting out. The throw is not collected cleanly. Batting: James Taylor 25 (28), Eoin Morgan 2 (6)
Live Cricket Score England 112/2 | Overs 18 (Target 306): Watson’s accurate over is picked for two singles. Roy tries to smash a length ball through midwicket, but cannot pierce the gap. Glnn Maxwell, the part-time off-spinner, comes on to bowl. He is gently turned to the leg side and is picked for two. Roy steps outside leg to give himself room for belligerence, but he instead chips a catch straight to point off an attempted square drive. Batting: James Taylor 22 (21), Eoin Morgan 0 (1)
OUT! Jason Roy c Warner b Maxwell 67 (64)
Live Cricket Score England 105/1 | Overs 16 (Target 306): Four runs are worked by the batsmen off Watson’s second over. There is a shout of ‘catch’ when Roy pulls a short ball from Marsh, but the ball lands safely in the leg side. Taylor, off the fifth, ball smacks a ball off his waist to backward square leg, but the diving fielder cannot stop the boundary. Batting: Jason Roy 63 (58), James Taylor 19 (16)
Live Cricket Score England 90/1 | Overs 14 (Target 306): Shane Watson comes on to bowl his medium pacers. Warner fumbles a simple ball to allow James Taylor to take his first run. Roy gets a push to third man to get to his maiden fifty in ODIs. Roy, without any footwork, stays in his crease and whips a ball from middle stump to the midwicket boundary. That was timed supremely. James Taylor comes down the track and chips Marsh straight for a six. Batting: Jason Roy 58 (54), James Taylor 9 (8)
Live Cricket Score England 70/1 | Overs 12 (Target 306): Mitchell Marsh comes on to bowl. He bowls a ball on Roy’s thighs, and is duly turned past short fin-leg for a boundary. Off a similar ball, the flick is repeated, and another four is got. After four quiet balls, a dab to third man goes for a four and a pull to fine leg for another. Marsh, in his 12th over, has Hales caught by Watson at midwicket off a short ball that was ready to be dispatched. James Taylor is the new man. Batting: Jason Roy 48 (46), James Taylor 0 (3)
Live Cricket Score England 70/0 | Overs 11 (Target 306): Mitchell Marsh comes on to bowl. He bowls a ball on Roy’s thighs, and is duly turned past short fin-leg for a boundary. Off a similar ball, the flick is repeated, and another four is got. After three quiet balls, a dab to third man goes for a four and a pull to fine leg for another. Batting: Alex Hales 22 (20), Jason Roy 48 (46)
Live Cricket Score England 52/0 | Overs 9 (Target 306): Coulter-Nile is driven down the ground crisply, but a dive by the mid-on fielder saves four. He is pulled on his fourth delivery to the fine-leg boundary. There is a dab to third man, for a single, the second run run in the over. Pat Cummins is defended for five balls by Jason Roy, in a maiden. Batting: Alex Hales 20 (17), Jason Roy 32 (37)
Live Cricket Score England 46/0 | Overs 7 (Target 306): One of Coulter-Nile’s short balls is pulled to fine fine leg for a boundary, and another is pulled to deep square leg for a single. Starc is replaced by Pat Cummins. He is uppishly driven to square third man for a brace, the last ball is a driven four through extra-cover. Batting: Alex Hales 19 (14), Jason Roy 27 (28)
Live Cricket Score England 35/0 | Overs 5 (Target 306): Coulter-Nile bowls back of a length for an accurate, maiden over. Starc is driven to the cover fielder, driven to the mid-off fielder, guided to third man for a single, pulled hard for a six past fine leg (Hales had top edged that), and then driven down the ground for a four off an overpitched ball, driven to mid-off for a dot. Batting: Alex Hales 19 (13), Jason Roy 16 (17)
Live Cricket Score England 11/0 | Overs 2 (Target 306): A fast, accurate first over from Mitchell Starc has five runs scored off it, with a drive though the covers. Jason Roy turns a ball away from his legs crisply to the square leg boundary, for the second four of the innings, in the next over, from Nathan Coulter-Nile. Starc comes back to bowl an eventful over. Hales looked to take a quick single in the off side, but Maxwell, the fielder, threw the ball back in when the batsman was miles out. But a direct hit was needed. A ball on the legs is deposited with a neat flick to square leg for a four that was almost a six. A jittery shot from Roy had him almst caught at mid-on by Bailey, but then he hits a nice cover drive to finish off. Batting: Alex Hales 9 (4), Jason Roy 15 (14)
A scrappy and effective partnership between Wade and Marsh has helped Australia cross 300 after they had been struggling six down for 195. Runs were worked around everywhere, and regular big hits were had. Wade was constantly shifting inside the crease, changing his position to put the bowlers off their lengths, and executed the lap sweeps sweetly. Marsh was also smart with his innings. The middle order, though, collapsed under a turning, competent spell by Adil Rashid, the leg-spinner, who took four wickets to derail the opposition after a strong start. The first wicket fell in the 15th over, and the innings stuttered many times after that, before the saving act at the end. 305 may not yet be a match-winning score, but it gives Australia a chance. Read more on the innings, in the innings report here.
Live Cricket Score Australia 305/6 | Overs 50: Wade gets a powerful pull away to square leg, but is almost caught by the diving fielder at the boundary! The ball sneaks through for a four, though. He smashes a length ball off the previous ball, going deep in his crease to get leverage, to get four through long-off. The last over is bowled by Woakes. He gives away a single off a slower ball drilled to long-off. An accurate ball from Woakes goes through the legs of Marsh, for a dot, Marsh drills the third ball to long-off for a single. Wade gets another single down the ground. Marsh gets a full ball, converts it into a full toss and launches it for a six to long-off. Another single to the leg side gets Australia to 305 for 6! Not Out: Matthew Wade 71 (50), Mitchell Marsh 40 (34)
Live Cricket Score Australia 281/6 | Overs 48: Wade goes down the track, to convert a ball from Wood to one that can be hit for a six, but the ball is into his body, and he somehow deposits it to mid-off for a single. Marsh and Wade drill balls to deep-set fielders to collect singles and doubles. He gets to a fifty via a mistimed slog to midwicket. Off the final ball, Wade drives a ball hard to mid-off, but the fielder there cannot get the ball from going through him, for a four. The balls are mistimed for singles in the next over as well. The fifth ball of the over has Wade executing a nice lap sweep to the fine-leg boundary. Batting: Matthew Wade 59 (45), Mitchell Marsh 28 (27)
Live Cricket Score Australia 264/6 | Overs 46: Stokes bowls two full tosses in his over, but the resultant punishment of those balls is only a single. A slower ball has Wade dragging him to the leg side for two. Wade sweeps him fine to the leg side for a boundary, to make it nine from the over. Wade steps down the track, in the next over, and gets a thick edge to the third man boundary off a wide, over-pitched delivery. Woakes gives away 10 fom that over, the other runs are worked around. Batting: Matthew Wade 46 (37), Mitchell Marsh 24 (23)
Live Cricket Score Australia 245/6 | Overs 44: Wade shapes to play a powerful pull off Stokes, but the slower ball had him timing the shot less than perfectly, as it landed deep in the leg side for him to take two. He flays a short and wide ball through backward point for a scorching four. Four singles are also taken in the over. Wade moves slightly to the off side to prepare for a belligerent shot in the next over, from Woakes, and a short ball is smashed to square leg for a four. 50 stand up. Batting: Matthew Wade 33 (30), Mitchell Marsh 18 (17)
Live Cricket Score Australia 228/6 | Overs 42: Wade jumps on his feet to lay a cut off a short ball, and Ben Stokes at backward point dives and gets a hand to it, as the crowd exclaims. An over-pitched ball from Finn is put away through midwicket by Wade for another four. Woakes replaces Ali, and is worked for two singles, before being slapped hard for four by Marsh. Batting: Matthew Wade 21 (23), Mitchell Marsh 14 (13)
Live Cricket Score Australia 212/6 | Overs 40: Steven Finn, the leader of the attack, is back on. Wade hits a full-ish ball (not over-pitched) for a nicely executed drive through mid-off for four. He square drives a ball off a similar length to sweeper cover for a single. Wade waits for a full ball from Ali, converts it into a full toss ue to a forward strike, and paddle sweeps it to fine leg for a four. Marsh drives Ali though vacant extra-cover region and scampers for two. Then, he nicely lofts him to the extra-cover boundary, it reaches the ropes on one bounce. Batting: Matthew Wade 11 (16), Mitchell Marsh 8 (8)
Live Cricket Score Australia 195/6 | Overs 38: Watson is dismissed via a run out due to a horrific call. Australia needed him to play out the remaining overs to help them have a shot towards 300, but this would have been the last things he or his team would have wanted. A single was called for, the ball had trickled to short midwicket, who threw the ball in at the strikers’ end. Watson was way short. Batting: Matthew Wade 1 (9), Mitchell Marsh 1 (3)
OUT! Shane Watson run out 6 (11)
Live Cricket Score Australia 192/5 | Overs 36: Wood, bowling the 36th over, after drinks, gets an edge off Maxwell’s bat, and it’s caught by the wicketkeeper diving ahead. Maxwell waits for the decision on whether the ball has carried properly to the keeper, and he is told he is out. This is the first wicket to be taken by any bowler other than Rashid, Australia’s fifth. Batting: Shane Watson 5 (8), Matthew Wade 0 (3)
OUT! Glenn Maxwell c Buttler b Wood 15 (15)
Live Cricket Score Australia 182/4 | Overs 33: Bailey and Maxwell hit two impressive shots for boundaries off Wood, but in the next over, Rashid gets a ball to turn the other way and has Bailey lbw! He was hit on the back leg as he looked to turn the ball to leg, but the ball hit his thigh. Batting: Glenn Maxwell 9 (7), Shane Watson 1 (1)
OUT! George Bailey lbw b Rashid 23 (16)
Live Cricket Score Australia 164/3 | Overs 31: George Bailey, the new man, comes down the track and smashes Rashid to long-on for a six! This is the first six of the innings. The 30th over, bowled by Wood, is an eventful one: Smith looks to work a ball from outside off to leg but gets an edge to third man — a wide slip would have gobbled it — but he gets a four. Smith gets a ball to almost carry to mid-on, the ball just fell short of the fielder. Smith hist the second six of the match, coming down the track to heave over long-on, but as he looks to smash another one, he is caught deep in the leg side!
Rashid induces a drive off Warner and the batsman is caught! The batsman was lining him up for a heavy, clearing his front leg and going down on a knee, and gets a thick edge to shot third man. Batting: George Bailey 15 (12)
OUT! Steven Smith c Stokes b Rashid 44 (54)
OUT! David Warner c Woakes b Rashid 59 (67)
Live Cricket Score Australia 132/1 | Overs 26: Ali is duly milked for singles in his next over as well. This time, a short mid-on is placed for Warner, but only for one ball. Smith comes down the track to smash Ali to long-on, but a diving mid-on fielder allows only a single. The short mid-off is back again for Warner, and that fielder tops a forcing drive. In the over earlier, Smith had deposited Stokes for a four through extra-cover. Batting: David Warner 59 (66), Steven Smith 27 (37)
Live Cricket Score Australia 118/1 | Overs 24: Warner goes to fifty! via a single to mid-on. Stokes bowls a full ball to Warner and Smith, and two singles were collected off him. The batsmen use their feet nicely to Ali again in this over, a short mid-off is played to cut the drive from Warner, but it doesn’t prevent the batsman from having a single through that area. The previous ball was turned to wide mid-on for a couple. Batting: David Warner 53 (60), Steven Smith 19 (31)
Live Cricket Score Australia 112/1 | Overs 22: The fourth seamer Ben Stokes comes on to bowl his second over, and is hit for three singles, and a brace, via a drive to extra-cover from Smith. The third ball of the over had Warner chopping him on, almost to his stumps. Smith uses his feet to come down the track and work a single to midwicket off Ali. Warner does the same. Smith, then, works him to leg off the back foot, and Warner pulls him to square leg for another single. Batting: David Warner 49 (56), Steven Smith 16 (23)
Live Cricket Score Australia 100/1 | Overs 20: Warner, in a typical front-foot cut through cover, sends the first ball of the over racing to the boundary. Two runs are milked off the rest of the deliveries. Ali bowls a quick maiden over. Batting: David Warner 44 (50), Steven Smith 10 (17)
Live Cricket Score Australia 97/1 | Overs 18: Warner accepts an invite for an attacking rive by Rashid, and deposits him to extra-cover. Rashid is flicked by Smith, off another ball, to deep backward square leg. Moeen Ali, the off-spinner, comes on to bowl, and is respectfully played by the batsmen. Batting: David Warner 39 (45), Steven Smith 8 (10)
Live Cricket Score Australia 81/1 | Overs 16: Burns comes down the track to Rashid, but the converted full toss is hit straight back to the bowler! England have their first wicket. He had, on the previous ball, lofted Rashid to long-on for a boundary. Warner and Steven Smith, the new man, play a quiet over from the short-of-a-length Woakes. Batting: David Warner 30 (34), Steven Smith 2 (3)
OUT! Joe Burns c and b Rashid 44 (53)
Live Cricket Score Australia 72/0 | Overs 14: Rashid mixes his legspinner and googlies well, and has Warner coming down the track to drive him to the extra-cover boundary past a diving fielder. It was a streaky shot as the batsman was not in full control, and could have ended up a catch to that extra-cover fielder. Warner, in the next over, slaps a short-ish ball outside off from Woakes to the cover boundary. Burns comes down the track to him, but he bowls a short one from which the batsman sways his head away. Burns, off the back foot, pulls to fine leg for a single in the last ball. Batting: Joe Burns 40 (50), David Warner 30 (34)
Live Cricket Score Australia 60/0 | Overs 12: Adil Rashid, the leg-spinner, comes on to bowl. He bowls a few googlies in his over, and is worked around for five runs. Woakes bowls short-of-a-length balls to Burns in his second over, including a pacy short ball that goes past the head of the batsman. Batting: Joe Burns 37 (45), David Warner 21 (27)
Live Cricket Score Australia 54/0 | Overs 10: Burns smashes Finn down the ground in a clean strike, for a lofted four to long-off. Warner gets a ball on his legs and puts it away to collect a boundary through deep square leg. Australia have crossed 50. Warne is dished a slower ball of a similar length, but he is early on the stroke. Burns slogs a ball though the leg side off Chris Woakes’ first over, but has Wood diving to save a run. The crowd exclaims as Warner drives a full ball hard, straight to Woakes completing his follow-through. Woakes is caught off-guard and he spills the catch. Batting: Joe Burns 34 (39), David Warner 18 (20)
Live Cricket Score Australia 41/0 | Overs 8: Off a short-of-a-length ball outside off, Burns plays a cut to the third man for a single. Warner plays a defensive prod to mid-off off a ball on middle stump. He, then, turns the ball to leg for a single. Burns plays a pull off a shot ball, but the fielder in the deep picks up the ball after it bounces once, and throws it back to limit the batsmen to one. Burns doesn’t get a pull out of the middle, in the next over, and gets a single to fine leg. Burns uses his wrists well to late cut a good length ball to the third man boundary, past the diving fielder ionise the circle. He goes for a heave, but mistimes it for two in the off side. Batting: Joe Burns 26 (34), David Warner 13 (14)
Live Cricket Score Australia 28/0 | Overs 6: Warner is quieter in this over from Finn. He plays four defensive strokes. England appeal for a catch against Burns, who seems to have provided a catch off a bump ball. The third umpire is called, and he rules not out after looking at replays. Burns responds with a cracking square drive to the boundary. Batting: Joe Burns 14 (24), David Warner 12 (12)
Live Cricket Score Australia 20/0 | Overs 4: Warner punishes an overpitched delivery outside off stump from Mark Wood, driving powerfully through the extra-cover boundary. A short-of-a-length ball from Wood in the same over has him pushing gently though the covers, but the momentum of the ball allows him to come back for two. Warner had almost picked up another four through extra-cover with a drive off a good-length ball off Finn, in the previous over His partner, Burns, has played more sedately: he picked up a two though the off side and played four dots in that over. Batting: Joe Burns 6 (16), David Warner 12 (8)
Live Cricket Score Australia 9/0 | Overs 2: Joe Burns gets an inside edge off an attempted drive, and the ball travels to the square-leg boundary. Mark Wood, in the second over of the innings, gives away a three to David Warner. Both Steven Finn, who bowled the accurate first over, and Wood, have bowled fast, nearing 90 miles per hour. Batting: Joe Burns 4 (11), David Warner 3 (1)
Australia win toss and bat. Australia will field the same team as against Ireland. James Taylor comes in for the rested Joe Root for England.
With the turnaround of captain Eoin Morgan’s batting form, turned the fortunes of his side. The unsure team that suffered a first-round exit with a loss to Bangladesh changed to a scrappy unit. World Cup runners-up New Zealand were defeated at home 3-2, in a closely contested series that contained lots of run-making. PREVIEW: England vs Australia, 1st ODI, Southampton
This will be Australia’s first ODI against a Test-playing nation under new captain Steven Smith. Michael Clarke, the previous captain, exited ODIs with the World Cup win, and Tests with the 3-2 Ashes loss.
Teams
England: Jason Roy, Alex Hales, James Taylor, Eoin Morgan(c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler(w), Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Steven Finn
Australia: David Warner, Joe Burns, Steven Smith(c), George Bailey, Glenn Maxwell, Shane Watson, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Wade(w), Mitchell Starc, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins
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