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    #51
    Aus need 30 from these two overs.

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      #52
      So, that went well. One of the harder pitches England have played on recently but they managed to bat themselves into a winning position thanks to Buttler and Woakes cranking up the run rate. And then still kept Australia down despite losing Plunkett to injury.

      A series win in Australia is of course brilliant, and England will be looking to win four or five of them now, but this Australian ODI team is not great. The Sydney Morning Herald notes that they have lost 10 of their past 11 completed games and now the World Champions only just have a winning record since the 2015 title: 26 wins, 24 defeats. The problems with the team are fairly clear - firstly they haven't settled on a lineup in the way England have and secondly they can't get up to a match-winning run-rate.

      New Zealand, however, are flying in ODIs of late.

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        #53
        England's record since the World Cup (completed matches only):

        2015: 8-6
        2016: 11-5-1*
        2017: 15-4
        2018: 3-0
        TOTAL: 37-15-1

        * tie vs Sri Lanka

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          #54
          WC 2019: What could possibly go wrong? Not just a rhetorical question: over-confidence, bad luck, key injuries, an opposition batsman plays an absolute corker of an innings.

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            #55
            The most encouraging thing about this series has been the bowling. England's ODI revival has thus far largely been about the batting –*outscoring the oppo with a new free-hitting approach - but in this series, there's been some really smart, tight stuff with the ball. None of this means the World Cup's in the bag though - the top of the ODI game is a far more competitive place than the top of the Test game at the moment

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              #56
              So much for a 5-0 series win. England have recovered from 8/5 (yes, 8/5) to a vaguely respectable 143/8 at the moment, but it's hard to imagine them actually having the remotest sniff of winning this.

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                #57
                Go on Woakes...

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                  #58
                  And indeed as you write he has gone

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                    #59
                    All out for 196. From that start it's a pretty miraculous total. Mostly on the back of Woakes's 78, with admirable supporting contribution from Curran

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                      #60
                      Looks like Australia are not going to have any trouble with this. Maybe time to see the SA v India match.

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                        #61
                        Hmm.... and yet.... if we can just get this Head fella....

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                          #62
                          It's the hope that gets you, but Head will surely see this one home.

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                            #63
                            Rashid finishes his spell with 10-0-49-3. Good stuff.

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                              #64
                              Oh fuck. That's a disastrous ball. Five no balls plus a free hit... which luckily just goes for one more.

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                                #65
                                "Steve Smith did his job as captain, he won the toss" burbles James Taylor on TMS. Not sure that's really a skill as such. Norcross is however repeating the sensible point that England's ultra-aggressive approach works in bilateral series but on the other hand they can have matches when they collapse massively like this. What if they have a similar day in a World Cup knockout match?

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                                  #66
                                  ^ Yep. Same was said about the ICC CT defeat to Pakistan. We don't do enough mini-tournaments.

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                                    #67
                                    This one could be close.

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                                      #68
                                      Not enough wickets gone. Australia should do this from here.

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                                        #69
                                        We have a game. 192/7

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                                          #70
                                          236-9. 3.3 overs left

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                                            #71
                                            2 overs left. One wicket. 13 needed.

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                                              #72
                                              Curran 5/35. Aus 247 all out. England win by 12 runs.

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                                                #73
                                                Yay!

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                                                  #74
                                                  I hope they found a pair of cardboard hands for the podium, one with four fingers outstretched, the other with just the middle one held upright facing the cameras.

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                                                    #75
                                                    It didn't go unnoticed by England.

                                                    https://twitter.com/englandcricket/status/957579251330502661

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