Player of the Match
Player of the Match
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    1.2 early wicket. Test-match length but not a Test-match shot. He is walking at Woakes, who drags the length ball a little, but it is the seam movement that does him in. Warner follows the movement with hands and looks to open the face. Edges it through 7/1
    18.1 stunning take at long-off! That's a massive moment at the death, Jordan misses his yorker by six inches, and Finch smokes his drive. It's fast, it's flat, it skids towards a tumbling Bairstow, who makes brilliant ground, flings himself forward, and scoops a killer wicket 110/7
    2.1 it is all Woakes, it is all Chrises. Smith looks to pull this from well outside off, and the ball doesn't quite come on and lobs up off the toe end. It looks like it will clear mid-on, but Woakes back-pedals and plucks it one-handed above his hand while also being airborne. Great control 8/2
    3.5 that is plumb. The bat and the ball are in different post codes. Maxwell, though, reviews with two seconds to go. Woakes with seam movement is a different beast. Stays on the Test-match length, on and around off, and Maxwell has to have a go at some point because this is T20. This one seams past his drive and hits him in front of middle and leg. Australia lose Maxwell and a review 15/3
    6.1 a double appeal for lbw and catch at slip but In think he has been given out lbw. A big googly that Stoinis doesn't pick and plays a forceful shot. The ball hits the pad, which draws an appeal, which gets bigger as it lobs up to slip. Stoinis doesn't review. Does that mean he nicked it? Does that mean he feels he is plumb? Replays show there is no edge. He is dead plumb in front of middle and leg 21/4
    11.4 honked down the ground, but straight to Roy on the rope! It's the offbreak from Livingstone, Wade wanted to go clean down the ground, but ended up pulling the stroke fractionally to leg, bat-face closes on the toe of the bat and fails to find the legs! Australia's ropey evening gets ropier still... 51/5
    17.4 Pivots into a violent pull, but straight to Livingstone at deep midwicket! That was smoked, and it took a sharp take to pluck it out, giving with the heat of the ball as he pocketed it five metres in from the rope! A timely strike to end a dangerous knock! 98/6
    18.2 yorker, gone! Six, six, out for Cummins. No length there for those levers to play with! Just right up to the toes, bursting through a belated push, and now England are surging again 110/8
    19.6 slower ball, back of a length, a slash across the line, Buttler stoops to gather, and Australia are all out from the final ball of the innings. Into the wicket, that does the business. And he ends a slightly ropey allocation with his second wicket 125/10
    19.4 slower ball, and could be run out at the non-striker's end! Indeed he is. Reverses the stance, looking to target the fine leg boundary, but can't connect, and Buttler's under-arm is accurate enough for Mills to go the business 119/9
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    Extras
    9 (lb 6, w 3)
    TOTAL
    125 all out (20 Overs, RR: 6.25)
    Fall of wickets: 1-7 (David Warner, 1.2 ov), 2-8 (Steven Smith, 2.1 ov), 3-15 (Glenn Maxwell, 3.5 ov), 4-21 (Marcus Stoinis, 6.1 ov), 5-51 (Matthew Wade, 11.4 ov), 6-98 (Ashton Agar, 17.4 ov), 7-110 (Aaron Finch, 18.1 ov), 8-110 (Pat Cummins, 18.2 ov), 9-119 (Adam Zampa, 19.4 ov), 10-125 (Mitchell Starc, 19.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    AU Rashid401914.75122000
    CR Woakes402325.75150220
    CJ Jordan401734.25121000
    LS Livingstone401513.75100000
    TS Mills4045211.2584310

Match Notes

England 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st66JJ RoyJC Buttler
2nd31DJ MalanJC Buttler
3rd29JM BairstowJC Buttler