England beat Australia by 24 runs in the second ODI match at Old Trafford in Manchester last night and leveled the series 1-1 with one match to go.
Earlier England won the toss and decided to bat first but their openers couldn't give a good start as Bairstow and Roy got out cheaply. Joe Root and captain Morgan rebuilt the innings and took the score to 90 runs but both the batsmen couldn't convert their starts and later Jos Buttler and Sam Billings too couldn't do anything.
At 149/8 England was reeling but the late burst from Tom Curran and Adil Rashid helped England to post a respectable total of 231/9 on board. For Australia, Adam Zampa took 3 wickets.
In reply, Australia also had a poor start as they lost David Warner and Marcus Stoinis cheaply off Archer bowling. Captain Aaron Finch and Marnus Labuschange took the charge and their 107 runs partnership for the third wicket put England on the back foot. Finch also brought up his fifty but the second spell from Chris Woakes changed the game in a short time as he dismissed Labuschange, Finch, and Maxwell and reduced Australia to 147/6.
Lower order batsmen tried to put up some fight but their efforts weren't sufficient and eventually, Australia bowled out for 207 runs and lost the match by 24 runs. For England Jofra Archer, Chris Woakes, and Sam Curran took 3 wickets each.
All the major stats and facts from the second ODI between England and Australia in Manchester :
8 - Australia lost their last 8 wickets for just 63 runs as they collapsed from 144/2 to 207 all out.
8 - Jason Roy hasn't scored a fifty-plus score in his last 8 ODI innings. His last fifty-plus score came against Australia in the semifinal of World Cup 2019. Since then his scores are 17, 32, 21, 24, 0, 1, 3 and 21.
12 - England has now won 12 of their last 15 ODI matches against Australia.
50 - It was the 50th ODI match of Josh Hazlewood's career. He has taken 82 wickets in these 50 matches.
1061 - Runs Aaron Finch has scored in ODIs in England. The fourth Australian batsman to score 1000 or more ODI runs in England.
Most ODI Runs for AUS in ENG -
1387 - Ricky Ponting
1061 - Aaron Finch
1049 - Michael Clarke
1016 - Adam Gilchrist
907 - David Warner
