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England managed to take seven wickets – and they are still keeping David Warner and Steve Smith quiet with the bat – but the victory was completed comfortably enough with 13 overs to spare. Travis Head led the chase with an excellent 96 but fell, caught at mid-wicket off Mark Wood, just short of a hundred with Australia requiring only 17 more to win. There were nervy moments for the hosts when Pat Cummins was run out to leave them seven down requiring 12 more to win, but England didn’t have enough to defend.

He hit a boundary-laden 78 off 82 balls, batting sensibly but punishing anything remotely short by pumping it for six over mid-wicket. In all he hit five maximums and four fours, with able support from Moeen Ali (33) and Tom Curran (35) to allow them to scramble up to a score that at least spared embarrassment.

Though Adil Rashid’s three wickets pushed things closer than expected, the stars of the day were Australia’s new-ball pair, Josh Hazlewood (3-39) and in particular Pat Cummins, who took a career-best 4-24. They showed how wicket-taking fast bowlers can be the difference in modern one-day cricket where batsmen like those in England’s line-up look to go big from ball one.