World champions Australia suffered their first defeat since ODI World Cup 2023. The Australian team beat England by 46 runs on Tuesday night using the DLS (Duckworth Lewis Standard) method. With this win, the English team has leveled the 5-match series 1-2 after 2-0. The fourth match of the series will be played at Lord's on September 27.
The hosts won the toss and elected to bowl in a rain-affected match at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday night. Batting first, the Australian team scored 304 runs for 7 wickets in 50 overs. In the reply innings, the English team scored 254 for 4 in 37.4 overs when rain came and play had to be stopped. In the end, under the DLS method, England were declared winners by 46 runs. Captain Harry Brooke was declared player of the match. Brook scored an unbeaten 110 off 94 balls.
Special in the match
- Harry Brooke scored the first ODI century of his career. This is Brooke's sixth international century overall.
- The Australian team has lost an ODI match after 348 days. The team lost their last match in Lucknow on 12 October 2023.
- The Australian team has lost 14 ODI matches in a row. The team's last loss was against South Africa in the ODI World Cup.
Average start for Australia, lost 2 wickets inside 50 After losing the toss, Australia's batting start was not special. The team lost the wicket of the openers within 50 runs. Captain Mitchell Marsh was dismissed for 24 runs off 38 balls and Matthew Short was dismissed for 14 runs. Jofra Archer gave the Kangaroo team the first blow by dismissing Short. After which Brydon Kars sent Captain Marsh to the pavilion.
Matthew Short was dismissed for 14 runs. Jofra Archer sent him to the pavilion.
Steve Smith's Test-like innings, 60 off 82 balls Steve Smith and Cameron Green took charge of the innings after the early wickets fell. Both shared 84 runs in 96 balls. Both these batters took a defensive approach. Smith played a Test-like innings. He scored 60 runs off 82 balls. Cameron Green contributed 42 runs off 49 balls.
Lower order score 300, Kerry score 50 over The team's lower batsmen took the score past 300 after the top-5 batsmen were dismissed within 200. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey played an unbeaten innings of 77 runs off 65 balls. He scored the 10th half-century of his ODI career. At the same time, Glenn Maxwell contributed 30 runs and Aaron Hardley 44 runs.
Jofra Archer 2 wickets Jofra Archer took 2 wickets from England. Braden Kars, Jacob Bethan, Will Jacks and Living Livingstone got one wicket each.
England's innings from here…
Bad start for England, Starc takes the wicket of the openers Chasing a target of 305 runs, England got off to a poor start. The team lost the wicket of the openers on the score of 11 runs. Mitchell Starc sent Phil Salt to the pavilion for a zero and Ben Duckett for a personal score of 8 runs. Salt was caught at short and by Duckett Maxwell.
Ben Duckett was dismissed for 8 runs. He was caught off the bowling of Starc by Glenn Maxwell.
156 run partnership between Jacques-Brooke Will Jacks, batting at number three, and wicketkeeper Harry Brooke put on 156 off 148 balls for the third wicket to bring England back into the match. Will Jacks was dismissed for 84 runs while Brook played an unbeaten innings of 110 runs. Liam Livingstone contributed 33 runs.
2 wickets each from Starc and Green Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green got 2 wickets each from Australia. Starc sent both openers to the pavilion, then Green broke the partnership with Brook by dismissing Will Jacks. He also dismissed Jamie Smith.
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