England continues to dominate Australia as the number one ranked ODI side defeated the world champions Australia by 6 wickets in the fourth ODI match at Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street and took a lead of 4-0 in the 5 match ODI series.
Australia opted to bat first and posted a good total of 310/8. Aaron Finch and Shaun Marsh scored hundreds for the Aussies. In response, Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow gave England a brisk start and added 174 runs for the first wicket in just 23.4 overs.
Jason Roy played an awesome knock of 101 runs off 83 balls, Jonny Bairstow (79) and Jos Buttler (54*) also chipped in and helped to chase down the target in just 45th over. Jason Roy was named Man of the Match for his match-winning hundred.
All the key stats and facts from the fourth ODI match between England and Australia at Riverside Ground in Chester-Le-Street :
3 - Number of ODIs hundreds scored by Jason Roy against Australia and all 3 tons came this year. First hundred in Australia and next two in England.
6 - Aaron Finch has scored 6 ODIs hundreds against England - the most by any Australia player and he broke Ricky Ponting's 5 ODIs hundreds record.
8 - This was England's 8th win over Australia in ODI cricket this year. They beat the Aussies by 4-1 in Australia earlier this year and have now won all the first four games in this series.
16 - Australia have now lost 16 out of last 19 ODIs they played away from home and in the last 21 months they won only 1 ODI away from home.
50 - Eoin Morgan become the first English player to play 50 ODI matches against Australia. The left-hander has most runs (1815) in England - Australia ODIs.
106 - Adil Rashid has taken 106 wickets in ODIs so far - the most by an England spinner. He surpassed Graeme Swann's tally of 104 wickets.
312 - England chased down 312 runs - the highest target chased down by England against Australia in ODI cricket.
Highest targets chased down by England against Australia -
312 at Chester - Le - Street, 2018
305 at Melbourne, 2018
300 at Leeds, 2005
271 at Brisbane, 2018
852 - Jonny Bairstow has scored 852 runs at an average of 56.80 in 15 ODIs this year - the most ODI runs by any player in 2018.
