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England vs Australia Scorecard, 3rd ODI, The Ashes 2017-18, Australia vs England
Result · Jan 21 2018, Sun - 08:50 AM (IST)
ENGLAND302/6
AUSTRALIA286/6
England won by 16 runs
CRR:5.72
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | England in Australia 2017/18 |
| Date: | Jan 21 2018, Sun - 08:50 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Sydney |
| Venue: | Sydney Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | David Warner, Aaron Finch, Cameron White, Steven Smith (c), Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, Tim Paine (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Adam Zampa |
| England Playing XI: | Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Liam Plunkett, Mark Wood |
- England have now won five of their last six ODIs against Australia and will be looking for a fourth consecutive win against them for the first time since putting together a run of five victories between 2012 and 2013.
- England will be looking for three wins on the trot against the Baggy Greens in Australia for the first time since winning three on the bounce in February 2007.
- The visitors have the opportunity to claim their first ever bilateral ODI series victory against Australia Down Under; they are currently winning 2-0 in this five-match event.
- Each of the last four ODI meetings between these sides at the Sydney Cricket Ground have been won by Australia; England’s last victory there was back in February 2007.
- The Baggy Greens come into this encounter having claimed victory in nine of their last 10 One Day Internationals at the SCG; their loss to India in January 2016 being the only blemish on their record in that time
- Overall Australia have been defeated in nine of their last 10 ODI matches (W1) whilst their opponents, England have managed to win 17 of their last 19 in the format (L2).
- Travis Head is closing in on 1,000 ODI runs, he requires 54 to get there; the Australian has only been able to post scores of 5 and 7 so far in this series.
- Joe Root is set to make his 100th ODI appearance in this game; he’s averaged 51.7 in 93 innings, only three batsmen have a better rate than the Englishman (93+ innings – Kohli, de Villiers & Bevan).
- Eoin Morgan is only 12 away from becoming the all-time leading runscorer in ODI matches between England and Australia; he’d go above Ricky Ponting (1598).
- Alex Hales has faced only eight balls from Pat Cummins in ODI cricket; he’s been dismissed with three of them, scoring just one run in response.