England beat Australia by 6 wickets in the second T20I match at The Rose Bowl in Southampton yesterday night and also sealed the series with one match to go.
Earlier Australia won the toss and opted to bat first but inform David Warner got out for a three-ball duck off Jofra Archer bowling and in the next over Mark Wood sent Carey back to the dressing room and at 3/2 Australia were in trouble and later Steve Smith ran himself out for 10 runs and at 30/3 Australia were in big trouble. Captain Aaron Finch's 40, Marcus Stoinis' 35, Glenn Maxwell's 26, and useful knocks from Ashton Agar and Pat Cummins took Australia to a fighting total of 157/7 in 20 overs.
In reply England also lost Jonny Bairstow cheaply but Jos Buttler and Dawid Malan's 87 runs partnership for the second wicket kept Australia on the back foot. When the chase was looking very easy then England lost three wickets in a short span and gave a chance of come back to Australia but Jos Buttler was rock solid at his end and his 77* runs knock took England home.
All the major stats and facts from the second T20I match between England and Australia in Southampton :
9 - Australia has lost nine of its last ten limited-overs matches against England in England. The only win came at Lord's in the league stage of World Cup 2019.
9 - Jos Buttler has scored 9 fifty-plus scores in T20I cricket - the joint second-most for England by a batsman.
Most Fifty Plus Scores for ENG in T20I cricket -
14 - Eoin Morgan
9 - Jos Buttler
9 - Alex Hales
8 - Dawid Malan
7 - Kevin Pietersen
511 - Runs Aaron Finch has scored against England in T20I cricket - the first batsman to score 500 or more runs against England in this format.
Most Runs against ENG in T20I cricket -
511 - Aaron Finch
467 - Martin Guptill
409 - Chris Gayle
390 - AB de Villiers
382 - Marlon Samuels
346 - Virat Kohli
6010 - Glenn Maxwell when on 16, completed 6000 runs in T20 cricket. He has scored 6010 runs in 270 T20 matches and became the seventh Aussie batsman to achieve this milestone.
Australian batsmen to score 6000 or more runs in T20 cricket -
9276 - David Warner
9000 - Aaron Finch
8522 - Shane Watson
7406 - Brad Hodge
6124 - Shaun Marsh
6097 - David Hussey
6010 - Glenn Maxwell
9000 - Aaron Finch when on 40, completed 9000 runs in T20 cricket. He became the sixth batsman to achieve this feat.
Most Runs in T20 cricket -
13296 - Chris Gayle
10207 - Kieron Pollard
9922 - Brandon McCullum
9906 - Shoaib Malik
9276 - David Warner
9000 - Aaron Finch