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Australia now travels to Old Trafford comforted by their first win of the tour. Their target of 146 wasn’t too demanding and they won the third T20 against England by five wickets with three balls to spare.
There were some stutters along the way caused by another excellent spell from Adil Rashid, who conjured three terrains, but Mitchell Marsh and Ashton Agar held their heads at the end for a victory that returns Australia to the top of the T20 world rankings in England. . expenses.
Now everyone is probably set up for a different format in a different place. Simon Lee, the new outfielder for the Ageas Bowl, his staff, and all those behind the scenes who allowed international cricket to function here deserve a little gratitude and a break.
England were left without Jos Buttler and Eoin Morgan, whose dislocated finger had not sufficiently recovered. So Sam Billings and Joe Denly stepped aside and it might be a bit snooty to say they were equal replacements, although neither Buttler nor Morgan bowl of spinning dolls quite as well as Denly. Australia shuffled their package incorporating Matthew Wade, Josh Hazlewood and Marsh, all of whom added some zing.
Moeen Ali led the England team for the first time as official captain, although he was in charge earlier in the summer on the field against Ireland, a task that ended similarly to when Andrew Strauss was captain against them in Bangalore. Recently, Moeen has done this job excellently for Worcestershire. “It is an honor to be the captain of your country,” he said. “Hopefully I can use what I learned from Morgs.”
Moeen did a good job, but even with Morgan in charge, England would have struggled to win when he defended 145. It was a fight for England from the start. This was the third game in this field and perhaps that explains the slow progress. Furthermore, Australia, with their fast and lanky Martians in the foreground, was clearly hell-bent on recording their first win of the tour. Mitchell Starc and Hazlewood did not allow liberties.
Jonny Bairstow scored the leading scorer with 55 of 44 balls. In a way, this was an admirable tackle, as he found it impossible to time the ball throughout the power play. But he struggled and almost managed to keep his wicket intact. It would have been easy to give up the ghost. Little by little he found some sporadic fluidity, generally against spinners. A sweep against Adam Zampa cleared the longest boundary by 30 yards.
After Tom Banton had gotten past Hazlewood’s first over, Dawid Malan was Bairstow’s partner and they managed to add 49 together in seven overs, after which Malan holed against Zampa’s first pitch.
Once Bairstow was fired, leading a pull against Agar, the chances of an acceleration in the later innings greatly diminished. Moeen blinked until Smith and Denly deftly caught him on the edge of the boundary and, using all parts of his bat, delivered a handy and undefeated 29 of 19 balls. But England’s last two overs produced just nine runs.
Australia’s response started out considerably more vigorously. Jofra Archer’s first over was fast but lasted 16 runs. The most notable shot came from Wade, a shot from above that went over the straight leg; On Archer’s next over a high-edged hook from Aaron Finch he flew over the vacant thin-leg limit.
As always, Wade was full of aggression, but it didn’t last. Mark Wood went for a longer pitch than Archer and Wade swung again, but this time the ball only caught Chris Jordan in the middle of the game. However, this did not cause any slowdown. England had collected 33 to one in their power game, Australia broke 61 to one in theirs.
Moeen introduced Rashid immediately after the powerplay and Finch at 27 tried to do a sweep. The upper rim rose into the night sky; Bairstow took responsibility, but couldn’t take the trap. Even so, there was still some nervousness in the Australian camp. Marcus Stoinis took the first installment from Tom Curran high and this time Banton held the catch; Glenn Maxwell could have been exhausted without meeting, but now he attempted two reverse sweeps against Rashid; he failed the first and exceeded the second.
Then there was a moment of magic from Rashid, who has been exceptional with a cue ball this summer. A perfect and completely baffled finch. It wasn’t finished yet; his latest installment sank into midair and Smith pushed hard; a reflex capture of Rashid and his spell ended up having taken three of 21 of his four overs. Australia had fallen to 100-for-five after 13 overs, but Marsh and Agar, thankful Rashid couldn’t play anymore, held firm.
