England v Australia T20 & ODI Series

For England Archer returns with Stone making way. Australia play Green & Abbott in place of Head & Zampa.

Balance of the side all wrong on this ground. 3 seamers & 4 spin options. Stokes is missed.

England leaked runs at the back-end of Australia's innings after being in control early, Smith & Green steadied the ship to allow Carey, Maxwell & Hardie the freedom to accelerate.
England's innings followed a similar pattern with Salt & Duckett falling cheaply to excellent bowling from Starc, before Jacks & Brook added 156. Livingstone played an attacking cameo as Brook calmly completed his maiden ODI century.
When the rain finally arrived England were coasting to victory, the 46 run win by the DLS method backed up the comfortable nature of the result.

England v Australia 4th ODI - Lords
Toss - Australia elected to field
England 312-5 (39/39 overs) Brooks 87 Duckett 83 Livingstone 62 no Smith 39 Zampa 2-66
Australia 126 (24.4 overs) Head 34 Marsh 28 Potts 4-38 Carse 3-36 Archer 2-33
England won by 186 runs

England are unchanged, Australia make 3 changes, with Head Inglis & Zampa replacing Short, Green & Hardie.

Excellent performance with bat and ball from England. Good to see Archer really cranking it up .

England v Australia 5th ODI Bristol
Australia won the toss & elected to field
England 309 (49.2 overs) Duckett 109 Brook 72 Salt 45 Rashid 36 Head 4-28 Hardie 2-38 Maxwell 2-49 Zampa 2-72
Australia 165-2 (20.4 overs) Short 58 Smith 36 no Head 31 Inglis 28 no
Australia won by 49 runs (DLS method)

England replace Archer with Stone. For Australia Marsh is out Smith will captain the side Abbott & Carey are the other 2 omissions, replaced by Short, Hardie & Connolly who will be making his debut. As per usual there's rain expected later in the day which had an influence on the decision at the toss.

Here's to a good final odi in England for last in 2024 been quite a rollercoaster ride of a series

England rattled along at a great pace reaching 203-2 in 24.5 overs, before Australia took a grip on the game. If the rain had arrived 5 balls earlier they would've escape the loss.