England v Australia T20 & ODI 2020

Schedule

1st T20 Ageas Bowl Sept 4th
2nd T20 Ageas Bowl Sept 6th
3rd T20 Ageas Bowl Sept 8th

1st ODI Emirates Old Trafford Sept 11th
2nd ODI Emirates Old Trafford Sept 13th
3rd ODI Emirates Old Trafford Sept 16th

Australia Squad
Aaron Finch ©
Sean Abbott
Ashton Agar
Alex Carey (wc)
Pat Cummins (vc)
Josh Hazelewood
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Mitchell Marsh
Glen Maxwell
Riley Meredith
Josh Philippe (wk)
Kane Richardson
Daniel Sams
Steve Smith
Mitchell Starc
Marcus Stoinis
Andrew Tye
Matthew Wade
David Warner
Adam Zampa

England T20 Squad
Eoin Morgan ©
Moeen Ali
Jofra Archer
Jonny Bairstow
Tom Banton
Sam Billings
Jos Buttler
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Joe Denly
Chris Jordan
Dawid Malan
Adil Rashid
Mark Wood

Reserves
Liam Livingstone
Saqib Mamood

ODI Squads
Eoin Morgan ©
Moeen Ali
Jofra Archer
Jonny Bairstow
Tom Banton
Sam Billings
Jos Buttler
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Adil Rashid
Joe Root
Chris Woakes
Mark Wood

Reserves
Joe Denly
Saqib Mahmood

1st T20 Ageas Bowl
England 162-7 Malan 66 Buttler 44 Richardson 2-13 Maxwell 2-14 Agar 2=32
Australia 160-6 Warner 58 Finch 46 Rashid 2-29 Archer 2-33
England win by 2 runs

Australia reached 124/1 in the 14th over but still couldn't overcome England's modest score of 162. Australia managed only 36 runs from the last 38 balls of their innings.

^^ 5 wickets went down during this period, due to a combination of good bowling & some poor decision making. Once Finch was out it was up to Warner to bat through with only 6 or 7 runs an over required.

2nd T20 from Southampton today

Australia won the toss and will bat

Australia 157-7 (20 overs) Finch 40 Jordan 2-40

Finch really cocked it up by getting leg spinner Zampa to bowl the 19th over.

England win by 6 wickets

^^ Hindsight, Finch's other options would have been Cummins whose last over was expensive or a tried & tested death bowler in Richardson. You could say Morgan made a similar error in bowling Archer who went for 18 runs in the 20th over when Tom Curran closed out the previous match. These sort of decisions can make a captain look a fool or a genius dependent on the outcome. It's amazing how hard it can be to win a game that you appear to be in control of, the closer you get the tougher it gets as everything gets magnified.