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Live• England and Australia try again Old Trafford
Close of innings
Australia 315/7
50th over: Australia 315-7 (Johnson 6, Voges 16)
So a wicket off the second ball for Finn, then professional unfunny
comedy song subject Mitchell Johnson slaps his first ball for four
through cover. He squirts the next one away into the leg side, Paul
Collingwood style, for a couple, then is beaten by the fifth ball. So
the last ball of the innings and Johnson takes a bye through to the
keeper.
Australia close with an excellent 315-7, largely thanks to a brilliant innings from Michael Clarke and his partnership with a fluid George Bailey. Rankin was head and shoulders above the rest of the bowlers.
If England are to win this then it'll be their highest ever run chase. I'm off to get some lunch and hand you over to John Ashdown for England's in 20 minutes or so. Thanks for all your e-mails and Tweets to help me through my own debut. Bye!
Australia close with an excellent 315-7, largely thanks to a brilliant innings from Michael Clarke and his partnership with a fluid George Bailey. Rankin was head and shoulders above the rest of the bowlers.
If England are to win this then it'll be their highest ever run chase. I'm off to get some lunch and hand you over to John Ashdown for England's in 20 minutes or so. Thanks for all your e-mails and Tweets to help me through my own debut. Bye!
Wicket! Faulkner c Morgan b Finn 18
Slapped to the captain at cover, who takes an easy catch at chest height.
49th over: Australia 307-6 (Faulkner 18, Voges 15)
Nick Knight, never one for holding back, reckons Rankin has been
"quite good". He's actually been outstanding and if he carries on like
this will be in the reckoning for a seat on the plane to Australia. It's
actually a shame we didn't get to see more of him against Clarke and
Bailey, which would have been a hell of a tussle. Oh, then Faulkner hits
a six over cover and a straight four off the last two balls of the
over. Thanks, James Faulkner, you've ruined my OBO. He hasn't quite
managed to ruin Boyd Rankin's figures though, which are10-0-49-2.
48th over: Australia 294-6 (Faulkner 7, Voges 13)
Finn will be feeling confident of keeping Australia's score down
here. Faulkner has other ideas though, shuffling down the track and when
Finn sees him and drops short, the Australian all-rounder rocks back
and pulls muscularly over mid-on for four. He looks to ramp Finn next
ball, but it plugs in the field short of third man KP and just a single
brings Voges back on strike. He tries to cut Finn away, but England's
ground fielding around the circle especially has been very strong today.
Enough singles to lift them to ten off the over though.
47th over: Australia 284-6 (Faulkner 1, Voges 9)
Boyd Rankin, with 0-34 from his eight so far - and that "0" is a
touch unfair - will be the other death bowler. Clarke is on strike, but
England's priority will be ensuring that's the case as... nope, ignore
all that, he's out and Rankin has a much-. deserved wicket. And another
as Wade is bowled off an inside edge first ball!
That's a great over from Rankin, which yields just two runs and means we have two new-ish batsmen at the crease. It also means Rankin's figures reflect a bit better how well he's bowled.
That's a great over from Rankin, which yields just two runs and means we have two new-ish batsmen at the crease. It also means Rankin's figures reflect a bit better how well he's bowled.
Hat trick ball...
Full-ish, straight and blocked by James Faulkner.
Wicket! Wade b Rankin 1
And another! Rankin on a hat trick and England could be back in this!
Updated
Wicket! Clarke c Buttler b Rankin 105
My "Key Event" button is appropriately named here, as Clarke nicks a
good length ball from Boyd Rankin and departs for a wonderful 105 from
102 balls with 14 fours. That was a fantastic innings, but the wicket
could mean the difference between 300 and 330.
46th over: Australia 282-4 (Clarke 105, Voges 8)
Apparently Bailey scored 77% of his runs on the leg side. I'd say
he's got to be close to getting a shot at that elusive number 6 spot in
the Australian Test side now, hasn't he?
Finn is back on and will bowl through now, given he has three overs remaining. Again it's back of a length from him, but Voges can't quite get him away, which shows that it's still not easy for the batsmen unless they're well set. A much better over from Finn, with five runs hoiked from it by Voges.
Incidentally Stokes finished with 10-0-66-0. Rankin aside, England's bowlers' figures are looking quite uniform.
Finn is back on and will bowl through now, given he has three overs remaining. Again it's back of a length from him, but Voges can't quite get him away, which shows that it's still not easy for the batsmen unless they're well set. A much better over from Finn, with five runs hoiked from it by Voges.
Incidentally Stokes finished with 10-0-66-0. Rankin aside, England's bowlers' figures are looking quite uniform.
45th over: Australia 277-4 (Clarke 105, Voges 3)
This will be Stokes's final over. Bopara incidentally finished his
allocation with figures of 10-0-57-2, which seem a little odd what with
England bowling a part-timer second change and giving him a full ten
overs.
Clarke is looking to make room outside leg to carve it away through his favourite cover/extra cover region, but Stokes is following him well. It's been a curio of a performance from the Durham man, with some excellent overs mixed in with some real dross that means I remain unconvinced. This is one of the good ones, again just four singles.
Clarke is looking to make room outside leg to carve it away through his favourite cover/extra cover region, but Stokes is following him well. It's been a curio of a performance from the Durham man, with some excellent overs mixed in with some real dross that means I remain unconvinced. This is one of the good ones, again just four singles.
44th over: Australia 273-4 (Clarke 103, Voges 1)
So a final over from Ravi, and his first ball is a near-beamer
that's edged past Buttler by Clarke for four. The next ball is worked to
mid-on for a brilliant hundred. Surprisingly just his 8th in ODIs and
his first against England, but what an innings it's been.
Bailey is swinging at everything now, and he's connecting with most of them. England are lucky though that he's not hitting them cleanly, and Bopara gets a lucky wicket as Bailey hooks to Tredwell at leg gully. They needed that.
Adam Voges, who has had a fine season for Middlesex, joins his imperious captain in the middle.
Bailey is swinging at everything now, and he's connecting with most of them. England are lucky though that he's not hitting them cleanly, and Bopara gets a lucky wicket as Bailey hooks to Tredwell at leg gully. They needed that.
Adam Voges, who has had a fine season for Middlesex, joins his imperious captain in the middle.
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