| 0.0 : West Indies - check. Pakistan - check. Time for Australia to lock horns with England. It is T20Is first and we welcome you for the 1st game of the 3-match series which is being played closed doors and in a bio-secure bubble. England have had a decent run playing the shortest format of the game in this post-pandemic era while the Aussies are taking the field for the first time in international cricket. It will be interesting to see how the Aussies respond against a well-settled English side. Stay |
| TOSS - It is time for the spin of the coin. Australia win the toss and elect to bowl. |
| England (Playing XI) - Jonny Bairstow, Jos Buttler (WK), Dawid Malan, Tom Banton, Eoin Morgan (C), Moeen Ali, Chris Jordan, Tom Curran, Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Adil Rashid. |
| Australia (Playing XI) - Aaron Finch (C), David Warner, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey (WK), Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa. |
| Australia skipper, Aaron Finch, says that the wicket is looking good and very good to chase. Tells that they will try to put their best XI for the games. Feels that they have done decent practice before this game. On their last international game way back in March, Finch says that the team is ready to go. |
| Eoin Morgan, England skipper, says they have a lot of strength in their top 3 which is a great headache to have. Mentions they have a lot of positives to take from the Pakistan series. |
| We are all set to begin. |
| Ashton Agar to bowl from the other end. |
| Pat Cummins is on. |
| 0.3 : Kane Richardson to Dawid Malan. |
| 0.0 : Adam Zampa is into the attack. |
| Ashton Agar is back on. |
| Tom Banton is the next batsman in. |
| Eoin Morgan is the new batsman in. |
| Mitchell Starc is back on. |
| Glenn Maxwell is into the attack. |
| Adam Zampa is back on. |
| Moeen Ali is the new batsman in. |
| Tom Curran is the new man in. |
| An appeal for a hit-wicket! |
| Kane Richardson is back on. |
| Chris Jordan is the new batsman in. |
| Adam Zampa to bowl out! |
| 0.5 : Adam Zampa to Dawid Malan. |
| 0.0 : Adil Rashid is the next batsman in. |
| Pat Cummins will bowl the last over of the innings. |
| A boundary on the last ball of the innings and that takes England over 160! However, it will be Australia who will be more than pleased with their bowling performance. England would feel that they missed out a chance of posting a massive total on a wicket that is looking really good to bat. |
| Asked to bat first, Buttler came all-guns-blazing and gave England a rollicking start. However, after he fell, England batters lost their way. However, Malan hung in there and played a fine knock to take England over 150. Apart from these two, Only one English batter could get into the double digits and that should be enough to describe their batting performance. |
| The way England started, it looked like the Aussies will have a tough time with the ball but they made a fine comeback once they saw the back of Buttler. It was the spin duo of Agar and Maxwell who made scoring difficult and got 4 wickets between them to force England on the back foot. Richardson too bagged two with his slower once. However, Finch might feel that he missed out on a chance of keeping England to a lot smaller score than this had he not given the 17th over to Zampa where England sc |
| Right! 163 is what Australia need. The wicket is looking pretty good once the batters set themselves in. The Aussie batters will just look to do that. For England, like their opponent, will need wickets at regular intervals to keep themselves in the game. Join us in a short while for the run chase. |
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