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Suprised there isn't a thread for this..5 match series has started today..

England batting first are 199-2 in the 30th over..

Harry Brook currently tearing Matt short apart

England fail to capitalise. Looks like Australia will chase comfortably.

I want to see Aus set/chase a decent score without Head firing. They probably do do it, but not often, I'm sure.

Good over by Olly. Just 1 off it.

Aus 7/0 after 2 overs

Slept through all of this. Welcome to UK to Ben Dwarshuis, Matt Short and Aaron Hardie. And Jake Fraser-McGurk, Tim David, Xavier Bartlett and Cooper Connelly

Who are you Barbados born Jacob Bethell?

Matthew follows it with another one run over for England.
The bounce has been good so far.

Aus 8/0.

England's attack looks like there must have been a lot of injuries and/or a lot of rotation.

Six Travis head smacks this back over Matthew Potts.

Aus 16/0.

Edged for lucky 4 over the slips. Takes to 20/0. Finally Australian batters have started to attack.

Another 6er. This time a well controlled pull by Matthew Short.

After the first ball 6, Olly has bowled good 5 balls.

Aus 26/0 after 6 overs.Brydon comes as first bowling change.

6er Full pitch and dispatched over deep widwicket by Travis Head.

Aus 36/0 in 7.

Expensive first over for Carse and he went for plenty in the first game, so maybe he needs to show something soon or England will look elsewhere.

None of these 3 bowlers have the pace of Mark Wood.
Brydon seems to have more pace than Olly and Matthews.

Out Brydon strikes. Easy catch at DBSL for Olly. Didn't need to move at all.

Aus 46/1 in 8.5 overs.