Australia beat England by 19 runs in the first ODI match at Old Trafford in Manchester on Friday (September 11) and took a 1-0 lead in the series.
Earlier, England won the toss and opted to bowl first. Their bowlers gave them a good start and sent top order batsmen of Australia to the dressing room cheaply. At 123/5 Australia were reeling but Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell's 126 runs partnership for the sixth wicket helped Australia to post a good total of 294/9 on the board. Mitchell Marsh scored 73 runs while Maxwell played 77 runs knock. For England Jofra Archer and Mark Wood took 3 wickets each.
In reply, England didn't have a good start and both Jason Roy and Joe Root got out cheaply off Josh Hazlewood's bowling. Eoin Morgan got a start but couldn't convert and was dismissed by Adam Zampa and in the next over Jos Buttler also got out to Zampa. At 57/4, England were in big trouble.
Jonny Bairstow and Sam Billings rebuilt the innings and their 113 runs partnership for fifth wicket helped England to make a comeback but then Bairstow was dismissed by Zampa for a well made 84. In the end, Sam Billings continued to fight and brought up his maiden ODI hundred but his efforts weren't enough and eventually England fell short of target by 19 runs. Billings scored 118 runs and for Australia, Adam Zampa took 4 wickets while Hazlewood picked 3 wickets.
All the major stats and facts from the first ODI between England and Australia in Manchester :
1 - Sam Billings (118) scored his first-ever ODI hundred in the 19th match of his career. He has one hundred and three fifties in his ODI career so far.
40 - Number of ODI wickets Adil Rashid has taken against Australia - the most by any England bowler.
Most ODI wickets for ENG against AUS -
40 - Adil Rashid
38 - James Anderson
35 - Sir Ian Botham
31 - Darren Gough
28 - Stuart Broad / Moeen Ali
126 - Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell's 126 runs partnership for the sixth wicket is the highest ever sixth wicket partnership in Australia - England's ODI history.
Highest 6th wicket partnerships in AUS - ENG ODIs -
126 - Mitchell Marsh / Glenn Maxwell (AUS) at Manchester, 2020
117 - Jos Buttler / Eoin Morgan (ENG) at Brisbane, 2014
116 - Paul Collingwood / G Jones (ENG) at Lord's, 2005
112 - Mark Waugh / S O'Donnell (AUS) at Sydney, 1991
96 - Shaun Marsh / Ashton Agar (AUS) at Cardiff, 2018
150 - This was the 150th ODI match between Australia and England. They played their first-ever ODI against each other in 1971.
Australia vs England ODI records -
Matches - 150
Australia won - 83
England won - 62
Tied - 2
No results - 3
200 - Eoin Morgan became the first batsman to hit 200 sixes for England in ODI cricket.
Most sixes for ENG in ODI cricket -
200 - Eoin Morgan
125 - Jos Buttler
92 - Andrew Flintoff
76 - Kevin Pietersen
75 - Ben Stokes
