ENG VS AUS - 1st T20I, Australia tour of England, 2020

So that's our entertainment quota exhausted for tonight. From a batting blitz to the feeling of it being a sticky wicket to another batting blitz to some ripping leg-breaks to two 150k quicks trying to outdo themselves to a massive collapse that just didn't stop, it's not been bad if you're looking for ways to spice up your life. Anyway, this is me, Vineet Anantharaman, signing off on behalf of Pradeep Krishnamurthy, Hari Sadanandan and our scorer, Mukesh Gowda. Until Sunday afternoon, and hopefully some lesser Aussie rust, ta ta!!

Here, we leave you with a few stats from our statsman, Shashikant Singh

Lowest total defended by ENG at home in T20Is:
153 v India, Lord's 2009
162 v Australia, Southampton 2020*
179 v Australia, Southampton 2005
180 v India, Birmingham 2014

Victories (fewest runs margin) for ENG in T20Is:
1 run v SA, Jo'burg 2009
2 runs v NZ, Hamilton 2018
2 runs v SA, Durban 2020
2 runs v AUS, Southampton 2020*

Defeats (fewest runs margin) for AUS in T20Is:
2 runs v SA, Jo'burg 2006
2 runs v SL, Melbourne 2013
2 runs v ENG, Southampton 2020*
5 runs v ENG, Cardiff 2015

Dawid Malan | MoM: I don't know what the secret is but it is working. You're always pushing yourself to exceed all expectations and limits. This white ball team has been the strongest England team in the last 4-5 years. It is really hard to get into this team, we are all aware of that and we just need to keep pushing ourselves. 175-180 was a good score, especially with the way Jos started we even thought 200, but when you assess the wicket it was a lot less. We were just one partnership away from getting there.

Eoin Morgan | Winning skipper: Statistically you can never win the game in the first ten overs, you're always chasing in the back ten. The bowlers came good in the last overs for us with Adil (Rashid) taking two wickets to expose that middle order. It was difficult for them under lights on a slow wicket. Tom Curran has carried on from a brilliant winter in New Zealand and South Africa where he led the attack with Chris Jordan. He was really calm in the last two overs. We always show faith in the guys coming in at seven and eight with the bat.

Aaron FInch | Losing skipper: We knew England would come back hard. They executed it really well. We struggled to find a boundary in that 12-18 over phase but the boys will keep learning from this. If you can separate the gameplan and the execution, we were okay, but we just needed to find a match-winning contribution. In hindsight it is easy to captain, but I have a lot of confidence in Adam Zampa's bowling at the death. There was plenty of stuff to be positive about; if you separate the result and look at individual contributions we were good. England are a bloody good team. They were one-dimensional in their middle-overs which was a simple plan that they executed really well.

21:33 Local Time: There couldn't have been a better way to pay the Barbados Tridents a tribute. You might be fans, but imitation is the biggest form of flattery, and Australia have done just just that. Let's cut them some slack you could say: they've been out of the game for six months, their batsmen were creaking rusty and they're up against this well-oiled English juggernaut. But still, there's no way Australia can justify losing this. At 124/1, with the asking rate just over six and with Warner and Smith looking in solid touch, completing this game was only a formality. 1-0 was Australia's already. But no, Rashid drew blood with Smith's top-edge, followed it up with Maxwell's brain faded bravery and then the rest just couldn't hold on. But that said, it was that three-over spell of thunderbolts between Mark Wood and Jofra Archer that laid the foundation, scaring the batsmen to a point of no recovery.

Tom Curran to Stoinis, 2 runs, low full toss, bunted away without timing down to long-on, and Australia have found a way to throw away a match they had in their pocket. Curran's not been bad either, bravely dishing out length before firing in his reversing yorkers ..

Tom Curran to Stoinis, 2 runs, neat yorker, reversing in, Stoinis swipes across the line and drags it behind square. Fine, five runs now, which nobody ever gets, so brace up, a six, a four, anything ..

Tom Curran to Stoinis, 2 runs, skies a skewed heave .. and it falls right in between four men converging - the bowler, deep mid-wicket, long-on, deep square leg

Runs: 9. Balls: 3. England clearly don't need invitations to find themselves at super overs.

Tom Curran to Stoinis, no run, length again. My word. Stoinis has a massive swing, too hard, too early, too non-connecty

Tom Curran to Stoinis, SIX, slaps over the covers. Curran once again dishes out length and Stoinis finally holds his pose, holds his shape and doesn't over-hit or over-commit, smoking over extra cover

Tom Curran to Stoinis, no run, misses the heave. It's a length ball for heaven's sake .. but Stoinis just can't lay bat on anything at the moment. He swings across the line, horribly, and is not even close to connect

Pat Cummins, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Jordan to Stoinis, out Agar Run Out!! LBW review cum a run-out review: It started with Stoinis swinging across the line, missing, getting struck on the thighs. But then in his quest to keep him on strike, Agar calls through for the quick single, which Jordan aborts his appeal for, chases the ball and throws it at the striker's stumps. Okay, here's with the LBW -- clearly missing leg. And here's with the run-out -- Agar's not diving and is a centimeter short. Agar run out (Jordan) 4(5)

Jordan to Stoinis, THATS OUT!! Run Out!!

Jordan to Stoinis, no run, 134kph, missed cut. Well, well, well. On a back of a length, into the pitch and ballooning over Stoinis' mistimed cut

Jordan to Agar, 1 run, 137kph, proper hack across the line, without timing, to under-edge it onto his foot and then steal the ricochet rolling in front of point

Fyi: The last boundary came in the 14th over. That's how much this one has turned.