England's batting fails as Australia take 2-0 lead

Second T20, Headingley

Australia 270 (44.4 overs): Carey 74 (67); Carse 3-75

England 202 (40.2 overs): Smith 49 (61); Starc 3-50

Australia won by 68 runs; pb bid 2-0

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England fell 2-0 down successful the one-day planetary bid against Australia arsenic their batting wilted successful the 2nd lucifer astatine Headingley.

Having dismissed the tourists for 270, England's apical bid was blown distant by Australia's high-class gait bowling onslaught successful a broad 68-run defeat.

Will Jacks and Liam Livingstone made first-ball ducks and Harry Brook lone 4 successful his 2nd lucifer arsenic England's stand-in captain.

Youngsters Jamie Smith and Jacob Bethell attempted a rebuild from 65-5 until Bethell looped a drawback to depart for 25.

Smith continued to 49 but clipped Josh Hazlewood, who was superb alongside chap returning speedy Mitchell Starc, to mid-wicket and England were 7 down inactive 112 adrift.

Adil Rashid and Brydon Carse prolonged the crippled with 27 and 26 respectively, but by the clip the hosts were dismissed for 202 galore successful the stands had already gone home.

Australia were grateful for Alex Carey's 74, which dragged them from 161-6 to what proved a competitive, if chaseable, total.

Carey, having been booed to the crease for his relation successful past summer's Ashes stumping of Jonny Bairstow, crucially enactment connected 49 with Hazlewood.

Australia tin present clinch the five-match bid with triumph successful the 3rd ODI astatine Chester-le-Street connected Tuesday.

Kick-starting a caller epoch of 50-over cricket against the satellite champions was ne'er going to beryllium easy.

This defeat, connected the backmost of a thrashing successful Nottingham, reaffirmed the size of England's challenge.

On Thursday the batters failed to capitalise connected a decent platform. This clip 5 were retired wrong the powerplay with Starc and Hazlewood, who missed the series-opener done illness, erstwhile again proving themselves to beryllium world-class operators.

Opener Phil Salt had already been dropped connected 8 erstwhile helium was caught down for 12 trying to slash Hazlewood disconnected a length.

Starc had Jacks caught edging a escaped thrust to archetypal gaffe earlier brilliantly mounting up Brook, who was pinned successful beforehand by an inswinger yorker aft a tally of balls pushed crossed the right-hander.

Softer were the wickets of Ben Duckett, who chipped a drawback backmost to Aaron Hardie, and Livingstone – strangled down the limb broadside by the seamer’s adjacent ball. It was the 2nd innings successful succession Duckett has miscued a half-tracker.

There was immoderate committedness successful the rebuild from Smith and Bethell. They played sensibly successful their basal of 55, with Smith hitting Starc for 1 picture-perfect on-drive.

Hazlewood dismissed him successful the 2nd implicit of his comeback spell, however, and Australia yet proved a people above.

Australia started brightly connected a transportation offering aboriginal question earlier Travis Head, their ultimate centurion from the archetypal ODI, picked retired heavy quadrate limb disconnected Brydon Carse connected 29.

Carse conceded 63 runs successful his archetypal six overs but different England’s seamers were overmuch improved connected their meek showing successful Nottingham.

Matthew Potts nicked disconnected Matt Short for 29 and beautifully knocked backmost Steve Smith’s disconnected stump successful consecutive overs, leaving Australia 89-3.

Marnus Labuschagne and Mitchell Marsh enactment connected 56 but Labuschagne miscued Bethell to mid-on and Marsh missed a expanse and was lbw successful the left-arm spinner’s adjacent over, having conscionable pulled Carse for six to spell to 50 from 47 balls.

Glenn Maxwell past deed Adil Rashid to heavy mid-wicket, gifting England’s leg-spinner a 200th ODI wicket. Carse came backmost good to unit Hardie to portion a drawback to mid-wicket and person Starc taken a shot later, and England’s fledgling onslaught was showing existent promise.

Crucially, though, Carey farmed the onslaught portion attacking erstwhile possible, pumping Will Jacks and Olly Stone for consecutive sixes earlier being caught astatine heavy constituent successful the 45th over.

It gave Australia nary much than a middling people but 1 that inactive proved beyond England.

Australia skipper Mitchell Marsh, speaking to Test Match Special: "It was a tricky wicket with a spot of seam, a spot rotation and the mode the boys bowled was outstanding.

On the crippled astatine Chester-le-Street connected Tuesday: "We volition beryllium picking our champion squad for the adjacent crippled to effort to triumph this series."

Player of the match, Australia's Alex Carey, speaking to Sky Sports: "I emotion it here, it's ever a lukewarm welcome! They bowled truly good up beforehand and got america successful a spot of trouble, Josh Hazlewood did a fantastic job."

England skipper Harry Brook connected Sky Sports: "Headingley is simply a pugnacious spot to vessel and I thought we did a bully job, we mislaid our mode successful the powerplay and it didn't rather travel off.

"We are an inexperienced broadside playing 1 of the champion successful the world, it is simply a caller epoch and it is astir patience and trying to person amusive arsenic well."