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Australia v West Indies 1stT20I Brisbane
West Indies elected to field
AUS 178-7 Warner 78 David 42 Joseph 3-21 McCoy 2-33
WI 147-8 Charles 29 Hosien 25 King 23 Starc 4-20 Cummins 2-32
Australia won by 31 runs

Australia v England 1st T20I Perth (09.10 BST)
Australia elected to field
ENG 208-6 (20 overs) Hales 84 Buttler 68 Ellis 3-20
AUS 200-9 (20 overs) Warner 73 Marsh 36 Stoinis 35 Wade 21 Wood 3-34 S Curran 2-35 Topley 2-36
England won by 8 runs

Both innings faded with time.
England could and probably should have posted a completely monstrous total but collapsed badly. Australia kept up with the rate for a long while but then lost their way.

A few years ago if you put up a 150 score, then you had a decent chance of winning the game. But now (after seeing the Pakistan and this test) the required total seems to be around the 200 mark.

A much tougher test for England in the 2nd T20I, with Scarc, Cummins, Hazlewood, Zampa, & Maxwell, all available for selection. Doubtful that Mark Wood will play back to back matches.

Anything less than 720 for 0 won't do

Australia v England 2nd T20I Camberra (09.10 BST)
Australia won the toss
ENG 178-7 Malan 82 Ali 44 Stoinis 3-34 Zampa 26
AUS 170-6 Marsh 45 David 40 S Curran 3-25
England won by 8 runs

(11-10-2022 19:48 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  A much tougher test for England in the 2nd T20I, with Scarc, Cummins, Hazlewood, Zampa, & Maxwell, all available for selection. Doubtful that Mark Wood will play back to back matches.

For Australia all the 5 listed above come int replace Green, Sams, Swepson, Richardson, & Ellis.
England rest Wood & Woakes, with Jordan & Willey selected.

England have named player contracts for October 22 - September 23. With 18 fully contracted players, 10 are those who played in the majority of this summer's tests, including the highly thought of Crawley, but not his opening partner Lees, who must surely be on borrowed time. Foakes receives his first full contract, Livingstone has been ungraded to a full contract. Roy & Malan have been downgraded too incremental contracts.
Of the current players, Jordan has lost his incremental contract, with Brook, Potts, & Topley added.
New players with pace-bowling development contracts, are Fisher, Carse, & Jamie Overton.

The more I think about it the more I suspect fielding will play a massive role in determining so many matches in the World T20.
In today's Australia v England pre tournament match it proved highly significant yet again.