ENG VS AUS - 2nd ODI, Australia tour of England, 2024

So, Australia have their noses in front in this series. Starc, Hazlewood, and Maxwell returned to the side and all of them made an impact with the ball. Starc was especially fascinating to watch. There are still three more games to go but England will have to improve their batting if they are to script a fightback. Join us after a couple of days at Chester-le-Street for the 3rd ODI. Until next time, goodbye and cheers!

Mitchell Marsh: These days 270 is always a bit short. But we knew that if we got early wickets, we were in the game. It really goes to show that partnerships with the tailenders go a long way. Just the experience, when you try to defend a total like that, the ball was moving around and we put them under pressure. Hardie was brilliant and it's a brilliant win. I think big thing for us is to focus on what to do, playing against England in England is tough. We lost a few guys to injuries, had a few experienced guys back today. Really pleased where we are at.

Harry Brook: I think we bowled nicely to restrict them to 270. Headingley is a tough place to bowl. We lost some wickets in the powerplay and that killed the chase. (On the last-wicket partnership) Set batter, wanted to get the no. 11 on strike, they got early boundaries at the start of the over and it's tough to restrict the strike. Didn't think I could have done much different. We have good ball-strikers. We have an inexperience side facing one of the best sides in the world. There are so many positives we can take, we have done everything we said we would do but it's just that things haven't gone our way.

Alex Carey | Player of the Match - Has been a pretty quiet winter, nice time to spend time with my family and freshen myself. It's been a pretty busy schedule over the past few years, so I'm happy to spend some time with your family and work in the nets during the pre-season. I thought they bowled well upfront, got us into trouble and I hung onto at the end, then the two quicks came back and took wickets. Unfortunate way to get out (on the Livingstone dismissal), but happy for Hardie, to take two wickets is good. He's a good young player (on Josh Inglish), did well in the T20Is, it'll be nice to have a run with him and whenever opportunities pop up, we'll have to take it.

18:02 Local Time, 17:02 GMT, 22:32 IST: Australia have put in a brilliant bowling performance to catch England well short of the target. The visitors were put into bat and they weren't at their best. Fifties from Marsh and Carey enabled to get them to a fighting total. England in response were pushed on the back foot early in their innings. Salt wafted at one outside off and was nicked off by Hazelewood. Jacks edged one to slip and departed for a golden duck off Starc's bowling. Soon after, Brook got a brute of an inswinger from Starc and was trapped in front. Hardie was introduced for a bowl and two brilliant catches off successive deliveries continued the downfall for England. A 55-run stand between Jamie Smith and Bethell gave them some hope. But, the latter gifted his wicket away. Smith also fell one short of fifty and the tailenders had too much to do. Maxwell and Starc finished things off to lead their side to a comfortable victory. Stick around for the presentations...

Most consecutive wins in ODIs
21 - Australia (January 2003 - May 2003)
14* - Australia (October 2023 - September 2024)
13 - Sri Lanka (June 2023 - October 2023)
12 - South Africa (February 2005 - October 2005)
12 - Pakistan (November 2007 - June 2008)
12 - South Africa (September 2016 - February 2017)
Australia had lost seven out of eight ODIs before the start of their ongoing run.

Mitchell Starc to Olly Stone, out Caught by Smith!! That's the game! Australia cruise to a clinical victory! A short delivery angling in as Olly Stone looks to sway away from the line of it. His bat is up in the air like a periscope and it runs off the back of the bat to the slip region. Smith moves back and accepts it gleefully. Brilliant performance from Australia to go 2-0 up in the 5-match ODI series. Customary handshakes all around. Olly Stone c Smith b Mitchell Starc 1(3)

Mitchell Starc to Olly Stone, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

A leg-slip in place now

Mitchell Starc to Olly Stone, no run, fuller length ball angling in on off, Olly Stone leans ahead and bunts it back to Mitchell Starc

Mitchell Starc [9.0-0-50-2] is back into the attack

Maxwell to Olly Stone, 1 run, quick and flat outside off, Olly Stone punches it to deep cover to get off the mark

Olly Stone, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Maxwell to Adil Rashid, out Lbw!! Adil Rashid has been trapped in front but he decides to review! He didn't have any other option as he is quite a capable batter and given the situation of the game. Was the quicker one on a length that turned in nicely from outside off, Adil Rashid looked to lap it towards fine leg but missed to get hit on the front pad. Time for the replays. UltraEdge shows a flat line. Over to ball-tracking. Impact is in front of off and it's crashing into the stumps. Australia inch closer to another victory. Adil Rashid lbw b Maxwell 27(34) [4s-2 6s-1]

Maxwell to Adil Rashid, THATS OUT!! Lbw!!

DRS!

Maxwell to Adil Rashid, no run, on a back of a length around off, Adil Rashid punches it back to Maxwell

Maxwell to Potts, 1 run, once again some extra bounce from a length, Potts works it through square leg

Maxwell to Potts, no run, quicker and flatter outside off, some extra bounce there, Potts looks to punch and misses

Maxwell to Adil Rashid, 1 run, turning in from a length, Adil Rashid hangs back and tucks it to deep square leg. 200 up for England and it's met with a big cheer from the crowd