- Australia seal 64-run win at Lord’s
- Victory marred by Ben Stokes’ dismissal for obstructing the field
- Steve Smith satisfied with decision while England skipper Eoin Morgan says he would have withdrawn the appeal.
Australia take a 2-0 lead in this ODI series, but prepare to be reading nothing but in-depth analysis and indecipherable wah-nalysis on whether Ben Stokes should have been given his marching orders after that handball.
For now, go home to your loved ones, hold them tight and tell them everything is going to be OK...
AUSTRALIA WIN THE 2ND ODI BY 64 RUNS
Morgan holes out and that’s the game. A brilliant knock from the skipper but he had too much to do. England’s middle-order fail again but well bowled Australia, particularly Pat Cummins, who finishes with 4-56.
42nd over: England 244-9 (Morgan 85, Finn 1)
Plunkett is bowled by a superb yorker - all credit to Starc there. Finn gets off strike with his second ball to get Morgan on strike but Starc is full and Morgan can only find fielders with one ball left. Dot ball...
Something poetic about the laws being enforced - correctly - at the home of said laws, and the fury of the crowd within. #EngvAus#Stokes
The party is over. Long live the party.
41st over: England 242-8 (Morgan 85, Plunkett 24)
Plunkett’s running with the fours – charging NCN and edging him fine past the keeper for another. And then Morgan, with a splash of class, hits inside out over cover for four. Partnership between these two is 55 off 21...
40th over: England 230-8 (Morgan 78, Plunkett 19)
A gorgeous strike down the ground from Plunkett goes for four before he picks up Cummins over mid-wicket for another! And then a slash away through point for another boundary! Three so far and Cummins is rattled for the first time. AND ANOTHER!
39th over: England 213-8 (Morgan 78, Plunkett 3)
Stunning from Morgan: he goes over the top of mid off for four, around the corner for six and over mid on for a huge, huge six!
38th over: England 194-8 (Morgan 64, Plunkett 1)
Another sharp bumper to Morgan and the England skipper responds with a well-controlled square shot into the leg-side for a single. Rashid then goes but Morgan finishes the over with a great hook over square leg for six!
Rashid tries and fails to go down the ground. Cummins is on one...
37th over: England 186-7 (Morgan 54, Rashid 2)
Rashid and Morgan exchange the strike with some decent shots but nothing of any real worth given the state of the game. Good bowling from Marsh.
36th over: England 184-7 (Morgan 53, Rashid 1)
Woakes goes trying to pull Cummins square and then a bit of calm as Morgan cops a nasty blow on the back of the helmet. While he is wearing a new Masuri, he isn’t wearing the attachments which protect the top of the neck area. He seems OK to carry on.
An under-edge through to Wade and Woakes is gone...
35th over: England 182-6 (Morgan 52, Woakes 6)
Morgan brings up an excellent fifty in the circumstances – people going nuts in the stands, wickets tumbling at the other end. 66 balls for it - two fours and a six.
34th over: England 178-6 (Morgan 49, Woakes 5)
Good shot from Morgan, opening the face to guide Coulter-Nile to third man for four! Six from the over.
Fielders believe they have been denied a run out, batsman avoiding being hurt!!Both have valid points! Who'd be an Umpire ????
33rd over: England 172-6 (Morgan 48, Woakes 0)
Ali goes trying to up the tempo and Chris Woakes comes in to replace him. On strike now after Morgan pushes a single into the off side and he defends his first ball back to the bowler. Tries to dab past the keeper but doesn’t get good enough contact on the ball.
Ali top edges a sweep deep into square leg, where Mitchell Marsh is on hand to take a simple catch...
32nd over: England 170-5 (Morgan 46, Ali 8)
Nathan Coulter-Nile with a fine over just three from it.
31st over: England 167-5 (Morgan 44, Ali 7)
Finally some malice against Maxwell as Morgan hits him down the ground for six! Keeping his head while all those in the stands, dressing room and social media are losing theirs...
30th over: England 160-5 (Morgan 37, Ali 7)
Nathan Coulter-Nile back into the attack and his first ball to Moeen is short, allowing leftie to pull him high into the leg-side... for one run. Morgan nearly chops on last ball but makes it through for a single.
29th over: England 156-5 (Morgan 35, Ali 5)
Starc involved again as he palms a reverse sweep into the air and can’t hold on to the catch.
28th over: England 151-5 (Morgan 34, Ali 1)
Biggest cheer of the day as Starc bowls a no ball followed by the harshest boos as the ball is hit back to the bowler and he feigns another shy at the stumps. Penultimate ball is worked around the corner for four!
That's only the 6th time a wicket has fallen via obstruction of the field in an ODI & first time involving England pic.twitter.com/6Gf3LnKw0u
27th over: England 144-5 (Morgan 29, Ali 1)
Three ball duck for Buttler has he misreads the ball out of the hand and off the pitch. He’s binned on review and Moeen Ali comes to the crease. Crowd livid. So are some of you on e-mail...
Maxwell, around the wicket, turns the ball into the pads of Buttler. Not out says the umpire but a review and Buttler’s miserable summer continues...
26th over: England 141-4 (Morgan 27, Buttler 0)
Starc’s looking to his wide yorkers but he gets Stokes out obstructing the field in the end. Expect the debate to rage on and on. Will’s sussed it, tbf...
That is out. Fine. But it's also an absolute shambles. Try doing anything other than that in real time.
My word. Stokes drives to Starc who picks up the ball and throws at the stumps. Stokes, diving back into his crease, puts a hand out towards the ball and stops the ball from going onto his stumps. It might be heading to the stumps, he might be protecting himself, but the umpires have decided that it is out. The crowd and the England dressing room are livid.
25th over: England 136-3 (Morgan 26, Stokes 6)
Agar’s undone by the back spin rather comically and concedes an extra two. Maxwell’s not happy, giving him a glare that suggests a wedgie is in the offing. Six off the over.
24th over: England 130-3 (Morgan 24, Stokes 2)
Marsh keeping England in check with his wicket-to-wicket routine. Stokes plays one off middle stump which has everyone in the field ooo-ing. Nae danger.
23rd over: England 128-3 (Morgan 23, Stokes 1)
Really nice back-cut from Morgan beats gully and the sweeper for four! Morgan then times nicely over the top of cover but Mitchell Starc does really well to save two there. Seven from the over.
22nd over: England 121-3 (Morgan 16, Stokes 1)
Marsh gets the breakthrough as Taylor’s skittish innings comes to an end. Ben Stokes the new man in...
Taylor tries to guide one to third man but thin edges through to Wade. Odd knock, but got going and cocked up there...
21st over: England 119-2 (Tayor 43, Morgan 11)
Pretty dull - three from it.
20th over: England 116-2 (Taylor 41, Morgan 14)
First sign of aggression from Eoin Morgan, who skips down to Marsh and hits him aerially over cover. The ball plugs, though, so it’s just two.
19th over: England 109-2 (Taylor 37, Morgan 11)
Taylor gets away with a duffed charge as he yorks himself but manages to get back into his crease before Wade is able to gather. Three singles off the over.
18th over: England 106-2 (Taylor 35, Morgan 10)
Taylor thrashes Cummins with a lot more purpose and gets him square for four! And again, this time along the ground.
17th over: England 97-2 (Taylor 27, Morgan 10)
Maxwell into the attack and Morgan punches him through cover, where there’s a man fielding on the boundary. Two runs. Taylor finishes the over toeing a ramp which just plops up in front of him.
16th over: England 91-2 (Taylor 25, Morgan 5)
Couple of wides from Cummins as leftie Morgan faces up. A delay as George Bailey goes under the lid. Length delay as there’s a bat change for Morgan and the umpires decide to take drinks after just one legal delivery in the over. Weird. Anyway, single around the corner and Taylor is back on strike, defending into the off side. But another four through mid-wicket eases Taylor’s woes.
15th over: England 82-2 (Taylor 21, Morgan 4)
That’s more like it, Jimmothy – he’s onto a short-length ball from Marsh which he gets out of the screws for four through midwicket.
14th over: England 76-2 (Taylor 16, Morgan 3)
Taylor gets a couple past point before he’s beaten on the inside edge by a Cummins delivery that seams in, just missing his off-stump. He then cuts the next 1211931 balls into the ground.
13th over: England 73-2 (Taylor 13, Morgan 3)
Taylor struggling but at least with Morgan they can pick up a few more singles. Three start the over before Taylor pushes a couple of dots into the covers, which he follows out with a dab to third man.
12th over: England 69-2 (Taylor 11, Morgan 1)
Garbage start to the over as a short wide-ball from Taylor is skewed high to third man, who drops a simple chance. It went quickly to him but it should have been taken. Anyway, Roy’s out edging to Wade so I suppose that’s something. Morgan gets a nasty bouncer first up, which he punches (literally) behind square for a single. Taylor ends the over with a peculiar looking shot. He’s had an odd 20 balls so far...
A quick ball – 90+mph – is edged through to Wade, who takes a good catch diving up to his right.
11th over: England 65-1 (Roy 30, Taylor 9)
A four to start this second Power Play which isn’t actually a Power Play because this phase of the game lasts longer than any of the designated Power Plays so, technically, it’s actually the, well, “normal” part of the innings. Whatever, four leg byes. Roy drops one close to him and is ushered through by Taylor for one, who then steps across and pushes to square leg for another.
10th over: England 57-1 (Roy 28, Taylor 7)
Pat Cummins bounds in to replace NCN and has Taylor fideting into the off-side, failing to pierce the field. And then a dropped chance as the No.3 skips down and miscues to cover, where Joe Burns totally misreads the flight of the ball and fails to take the catch. Better, though, to finish the Power Player overs as he beats cover more convincingly for four!
9th over: England 51-1 (Roy 28, Taylor 1)
Mitchell Marsh on and a tough chance to start the over as Roy picks up off his hip around the corner and Ashton Agar dives forward and gets the ball in his hand but can’t maintain control as it spills out. Taylor scampers a single and Roy finishes the over with a straight four, timed well across the carpet.
8th over: England 44-1 (Roy 23, Taylor 1)
Coulter-Nile to get a proper go at Taylor, who finds fielders in front and square of the wicket first up. And two more before Taylor thrashes high but safe to the fielder on the third man boundary for a single. Roy keeps a good ball out and gets one to the same region.
7th over: England 43-1 (Roy 22, Taylor 0)
Wide half-volley offered up by Starc and Roy leans into it and throws in an extra flourish of the wrists to beat a reinforced off-side field for four. Ends the over with two more, skewing one deliberately wide of gully.
Smith's screamer - now in pic form #ENGvAUSpic.twitter.com/IYNbXeynXM
6th over: England 37-1 (Roy 16, Taylor 0)
Hales has his timing and he’s coming out to play. NCN threated through extra cover for four before a shorter ball is hammered to the square leg fence for another. But he’s gone know, skewing one in the air to Steve Smith, who takes a superb catch at short-cover. James Taylor is the new man in and he pushes into the off side to complete the over.
Hales checks a drive and hits it uppishly into the covers, where Smith, close in, takes a splendid catch diving to his right.
5th over: England 29-0 (Roy 16, Hales 9)
Heeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeee’s Hales: forward, on one knee, opening the face and timing Starc through cover-point for four bits. A few more dots and then Hales is ducking under quite a tame Starc bouncer. Thick outside edge for one gives him the strike for the next over.
4th over: England 24-0 (Roy 16, Hales 5)
Brilliant fielding in the covers from Joe Burns prevents Roy from thumping a four off Coulter-Nile. Next ball he picks out Maxwell. Maiden.
@Vitu_E The thing about Roy is that even when he's in he could get out to any ball (yes, I know any batsman could, but you know what I mean)
3rd over: England 24-0 (Roy 16, Hales 5)
A much better over from Starc and he’s giving Hales a bit of a working over. After a missing a short ball, Hales ducks another which skims his shoulder and is taken superbly by Matthew Wade diving backwards. But it’s all undone next ball as Starc is clipped through the leg-side for four AND oversteps the front line! A wide full toss is toed to mid off for no run.
2nd over: England 19-0 (Roy 16, Hales 1)
Good shape from Nathan Coulter-Nile as he gets one to leave Alex Hales, passing his outside edge. Off the mark next ball is Hales, tucking one off his legs before Roy returns to punch two fours– through cover and midwicket – in successive balls. Then a proper drive through the leg-side, pushing through the the line of the ball for another boundary. Class from Surrey’s own HBK.
1st over: England 6-0 (Roy 4, Hales 0)
The sun comes out midway through the over, as Jason Roy plays on inside out but straight to point. Will that making batting easier? It’s supposed to at Lord’s. Might not ease things up just yet considering we’ve got two new balls, but if England are still in the chase past the 20th over then it *should* be a formality. I’ll regret those words soon enough. Starc bowls two wides and then Roy guides the penultimate ball of the over through extra-cover for four.
Howdy, partners - the players are back out in the middle: Mitchell Starc is checking his run-up and Jason Roy will take the first ball...
An excellent innings from Marsh to see Australia home. The big question for England is whether Woakes, Stokes and Plunkett should have each bowled an over more, particularly given the treatment meted out to Moeen towards the end of his spell. It was brave/foolhardy to keep bowling Moeen after his sixth over went for 19, and sure enough his eighth and final over also went for 19. A sub-300 target would look just that little bit more chasedownable. Anyway, I’m going to pass the baton to Vithushan Ehantharajah – all emails to vithushan.ehantharajah.casual@theguardian.com from now on. Bye!
49 overs: Australia 309-7 (Coulter-Nile 0)
Slower, shorter, and Marsh has finished his stroke by the time the ball clips his glove on its way through.
48.5 overs: Australia 309-6 (M Marsh 64, Coulter-Nile 0)
Marsh miscues this to midwicket, but comes back for a second run.
48.4 overs: Australia 307-6 (M Marsh 62, Coulter-Nile 0)
Another slow full toss, and though Marsh doesn’t really get hold of it, it still clears mid off and bounces away for a third successive four. Not the hat-trick Stokes was thinking about.
48.3 overs: Australia 303-6 (M Marsh 58, Coulter-Nile 0)
Stokes gets his line wrong, sends the ball down the leg side and Marsh helps it on his way and gets another four for his troubles.
48.2 overs: Australia 299-6 (M Marsh 54, Coulter-Nile 0)
Marsh picks Stokes’ slower ball, and hits it to long off for four.
Stokes bowls short, Wade gets a massive top edge and the ball loops up into the air and down into the bowler’s hands. Unfortunately for the English, the batsmen crossed and Marsh is now on strike. Stokes, meanwhile, is on a hat-trick, having taken wickets with the last ball of his eighth over, and the first of his ninth.
48th over: Australia 295-5 (M Marsh 50, Wade 1)
The first four balls bring four runs, but then Marsh latches onto a full toss and smacks it down the ground for six. The last is hit in the air to cover, where Roy, running round to his right on the boundary, attempts a high, diving catch and very nearly holds it! Instead, he spoons it with his right hand into his left arm, which pushes it into the rope. Marsh has a 26-ball half-century, and Australia will surely reach 300 even if, with our slightly reduced game, they have just one over left.
47th over: Australia 281-5 (M Marsh 37, Wade 0)
Stokes attempts a yorker first up, drops it a fraction short and watches it disappear over long on for six. So he tries another yorker, gets it right this time, and Marsh digs it out and runs a single. Another couple of singles follow, before Watto tries and fails to hit out.
Watson attempts to hit a full toss over long on, but doesn’t quite get the “over” bit right.
46th over: Australia 272-4 (Watson 38, M Marsh 29)
Woakes is back, and starts his seventh over with a pretty emphatic wide. He was pretty parsimonious at the start of the innings and despite the wide he continues in the same vein here, shipping just the three singles. Strange, really, that he’ll bowl only eight of his 10 overs.
45th over: Australia 268-4 (Watson 37, M Marsh 27)
Stokes bowls a full toss to Marsh, who swishes and misses. A let-off for the bowler, but his next ball is smacked back past him with a resounding crack. The partnership has now contributed precisely 50, from 31 balls.
44th over: Australia 260-4 (Watson 34, M Marsh 22)
Stokes dives to stop Marsh’s drive from reaching the boundary, gets a hand on it, and pushes it a few yards to his right … into the rope. The next ball goes for four as well, and then he advances down the pitch to attack the one after, misses it completely and is extremely fortunate to see it bounce over the wicket. He reins himself in thereafter, and a couple of singles make it 12 from Finn’s ninth over.
43rd over: Australia 248-4 (Watson 33, M Marsh 11)
Wheeeeee! Marsh goes after Moeen now, slamming one ball down the ground for a very emphatic six, and then trying to repeat the medicine in Maxwellian fashion, not catching hold of it, and getting only a single. Watson then does something similar only in reverse – he has one heave, missing completely, and then another, which also goes down the ground, and yet another, which disappears over midwicket and into the top tier of the stand. For the second time in three overs Moeen concedes 19.
42nd over: Australia 229-4 (Watson 21, M Marsh 4)
Morgan saves three with a dive at mid-off to stop Watson’s drive. Watto, however, is not to be denied, and he cuts past third man and this time he gets his four. Then, from the final ball of the over, he tries to work it into the leg side, seems to change his mind mid-shot and awkwardly toe-ends it into the air but just short of the fielder. “Never thought I’d live to see the day when England were bowling with spin twins in ODIs,” writes Krishnan Patel. “Then again, I never thought I’d live to see Watto giving correct DRS advice either.”
41st over: Australia 220-4 (Watson 16, M Marsh 3)
Moeen would surely have been hooked had Maxwell still been at the crease, his last over having been so expensive. Instead, though, he continues, and concedes 26% of the 19 runs his previous over cost (five, for the non-maths-fans out there).
@garynaylor999@Simon_Burnton not sure Watson has the pace for this: https://t.co/wOzS98YY7G
40th over: Australia 218-4 (Watson 14, M Marsh 0)
Three quick singles and a couple, before Finn makes his breakthrough.
Shane Watson taking a quick single reminds me of a 1970s prop forward suddenly passed the ball in open field @Simon_Burnton
He’s not going to get that 50! Maxwell plays across the line and is caught in front of the stumps by Finn! He asks Watson if it’s worth reviewing, and Watson says no. And if Watson says no, it really isn’t worth reviewing.
39th over: Australia 213-3 (Maxwell 48, Watson 10)
Moeen continues, and after a few singles Maxwell hoists one over extra cover for six, and then hoists the next one over extra cover for six as well, and then the last goes low and hard past square leg for four. 19 (nineteen) runs from the over, and Maxwell, having faced 36 deliveries, is on the verge of a half-century.
38th over: Australia 194-3 (Maxwell 31, Watson 8)
A change of pace now, as Finn returns. Watson hits in the air to midwicket, where it falls a foot short of the inrushing Hales, who fields well. Then, a Maxell single later, he smashes to cover where it’s fielded, though not cleanly, by Taylor.
37th over: Australia 191-3 (Maxwell 30, Watson 6)
Thwack! Maxwell reverse-sweeps for four, the ball fair bulleting its way to the rope.
36th over: Australia 183-3 (Maxwell 25, Watson 3)
Blam! The first six of the day, and it’s a big ‘un – Rashid pitches one short and Maxwell swipes it over midwicket and into the stands. Rashid isn’t cowed, though, and it’s followed, commendably, by three successive dots.
35th over: Australia 175-3 (Maxwell 18, Watson 2)
Glenn bunts the first ball of the over down to long on for a single. That Smith wicket could be the difference between 300 and 320, you feel, especially if Moeen keeps things as things as tight as this. He’s getting a lot of turn out there and Watto is having to be very cautious. The final ball is whipped out to midwicket for the second, and last, run of the over.
34th over: Australia 173-3 (Maxwell 17, Watson 1) Maxwell spanks the first ball ugly, in the air but wide of mid off for one, before Smith chips deliberately over mid on for two. That’s the end of his fun though, as the change of OBOer does for the set batsman. You are welcome, Eoin. And you are welcome, comedy fans, as Shane Watson comes to the crease. Actually I’m doing a disservice to Adil Rashid there, as it was a lovely ball that tempted Smith into the drive. Watson gets a full bunger to open up, stands tall and punches it to cover for one. Another single to Maxwell, then the last ball is defended.
Tossed up outside off and Smith drives hard. A thick outside edge is the result and Smith is gone as the ball is comfortably taken at backward point. Lucas strikes!
33rd over: Australia 168-2 (Smith 68, Maxwell 15) Simon is just nipping out for some well-deserved lunch, so this is Dan Lucas for the next few minutes. Moeen continues and Smith absolutely mullers his first ball straight back at him, then gets a single past a misfield at extra cover. That brings Maxwell on strike and he brings out the silver hammer, sweeping hard behind square on the leg side for four. A couple out to midwicket next ball, before Maxwell mistimes a big hit over mid on and sees it drop just short of the fielder. Two more from the final ball makes 10 from the over and Australia are sitting very pretty.
32nd over: Australia 155-2 (Smith 65, Maxwell 8)
Smith scores five from Rashid’s fifth over, in the shape of two twos and a one. Two spinners in play, England are ripping through the overs now.
31st over: Australia 152-2 (Smith 60, Maxwell 8)
Moeen’s second over brings five runs, all of them singles. Still dark and cold at Lord’s.
30th over: Australia 148-2 (Smith 57, Maxwell 6)
Maxwell gets off the mark with a boundary, though not in particularly convincing style, as he edges Plunkett well wide of Buttler, with no slips in place. Then he drives through the covers for a couple.
29th over: Australia 141-2 (Smith 56, Maxwell 0)
A wicket maiden from Moeen Ali, and it could have been better still bad the umpire been impressed by a final-ball lbw appeal (and then Australia not reviewed it – the ball was heading wide of leg stump).
And it does! That one turns a long way, pitching wide of off stump and clipping the outside of leg stump, Bailey’s bat getting nowhere near it, and Moeen makes the breakthrough with his second ball of the day!
28th over: Australia 141-1 (Smith 56, Bailey 54)
Four more runs and a leg bye. The umpires refer a possible run-out from the last ball to the TV umpire, who has one of his quickest and easiest decisions, the bat being a good foot and a half in the crease when the bails broke. England need something to go their way, and soon.
27th over: Australia 136-1 (Smith 53, Bailey 53)
Bailey takes the first five deliveries of Stokes’ sixth over to score a two and then a single. Smith, on 49, faces the last – and smashes it past point for four, and he too is a half-centurion.
26th over: Australia 129-1 (Smith 49, Bailey 50)
Plunkett returns, and Bailey is first to his landmark, with a single to point, and later Smith clubs the ball to deep square leg, where Hales makes an excellent diving stop on the boundary to keep him waiting just a little bit longer before completing his own half-century.
.@CricketAus's George Bailey brings up his fifty, well batted! #EngvAuspic.twitter.com/lg4p9y5lLh
25th over: Australia 124-1 (Smith 45, Bailey 49)
Two singles and a leg bye from Stokes’ over, and both batsmen are now poised for some bat-waving. “Disappointing to see Finn being all nice to the departing Warner,” notes Ian Copestake. “What about some Watsonesque bullying (he’s short enough) and a barb or two about that one being for Joe?” I think Warner feeds off that kind of animosity. No, give the man a cuddle and offer to kiss it better, see what he makes of that.
24th over: Australia 121-1 (Smith 44, Bailey 48)
Another tight over, from Rashid this time. Still, five off it, all singles, and still no sniff of a wicket
23rd over: Australia 116-1 (Smith 42, Bailey 45)
Stokes sends a high full toss at Bailey, who tries to smack it away from his chest, in so doing breaking his bat. It’s a no ball, clearly, and a free hit under new regulations. It’s a slower ball, smacked straight to Finn at mid-on. The crowd cheer the catch, but then notice that nobody is celebrating on the field and stop. Just two off the over.
22nd over: Australia 114-1 (Smith 42, Bailey 44)
Smith gets a single off Rashid, and then Bailey hits high and long, the ball landing, unfortunately for him, about two inches in front of the rope. Even so he overtakes Smith’s score, from 13 fewer deliveries.
21st over: Australia 108-1 (Smith 41, Bailey 39)
Bailey could have got out two or three times in the first half-dozen deliveries he faced, but he looks good to go now, and he pulls Stokes for four here. England need to provoke some wicket-tumblage pretty soon or things could start to get messy.
20th over: Australia 101-1 (Smith 40, Bailey 34)
Australia streak to triple figures, each batsman scoring a four and a single off Rashid, whose one really poor delivery is smashed through midwicket by Smith. Bailey’s four is a fine shot, advancing to push through cover.
19th over: Australia 91-1 (Smith 35, Bailey 29)
Suddenly it’s single city, as Plunkett’s first four deliveries yield a run each. And then, after a dot, a four, Bailey thundering the last past square leg as the bowler screams a frustrated “No!”
18th over: Australia 83-1 (Smith 33, Bailey 23)
Spin! Rashid, the best of England’s bowlers t’other night, gets the ball for the first time, and Bailey welcomes him with a cut to deep point for a couple. In all Australia get five. Laying some useful foundations here.
It's not good to have a five man limit on the legside. The interpretation of the wide law is enough. Promotes ugly batting @Simon_Burnton
17th over: Australia 78-1 (Smith 32, Bailey 19)
There’s a reasonable crowd of semi-celebrity at Lord’s today. Picked out by the cameras so far: the inevitable Piers Morgan and Stephen Fry, and the less predictable Sol Campbell and Phil Spencer off Location, Location, Location. They see Plunkett bowl an over featuring two dots, two singles, and two twos. After which, drinks.
16th over: Australia 72-1 (Smith 29, Bailey 16)
Stokes continues, and yields three singles. Meanwhile, this is the Warner latest:
Confirmation from @CAComms: Warner will bat when required, but won't field. He will have an X-Ray on his thumb when he has finished batting.
15th over: Australia 69-1 (Smith 28, Bailey 15)
After a couple of singles Plunkett catches Bailey in the pads, but the ball would have gone over the stumps. The next is an off-cutter that zips off the slope and just misses off stump. Bailey looks immeasurably awkward on each occasion, but survives. In other news, today is both World Beard Day and International Bacon Day.
14th over: Australia 67-1 (Smith 27, Bailey 14)
Warner reappears, heading for the nets, with no gloves on, no strapping to be seen and looking very jaunty, and apparently preparing to make another appearance in this innings. And Stokes comes on, and strays a little towards and indeed past leg stump, conceding a wide first ball, and a four, flicked to deep fine leg, next up.
13th over: Australia 58-1 (Smith 22, Bailey 11)
Plunkett bowls to Smith precisely as wide as you can get away with without conceding a wide. The batsman leaves it, looks to the umpire for assistance and looks exceedingly disgruntled not to receive any. So he chases after the next ball, also pretty wide, attempts to pull but mishits for a single, the only run from the over.
12th over: Australia 57-1 (Smith 21, Bailey 11)
Woakes keeps going, his sixth over of the day, and gets down fast to block Bailey’s straight drive, probably saving four runs but possibly giving him a little hand-ouch.
11th over: Australia 55-1 (Smith 21, Bailey 9)
A first bowling change: Plunkett comes on, and Bailey licks his lips and tucks in, in the shape of two shots to square leg for two, and one wide of mid-off for four. And also a single off the last.
10th over: Australia 46-1 (Smith 21, Bailey 0)
Woakes bowls full and straight at Smith, and however clumsy he can look at times the Australia captain deals with straight half-volleys in consumately classy fashion. Four runs. And here’s the Finn delivery that nearly did for Bailey first ball:
How did that miss?! Bailey has a bit of a laugh after that one... #ENGvAUShttp://t.co/UWLsCeSpCM
9th over: Australia 42-1 (Smith 17, Bailey 0)
After a boundary from the second ball, played down the ground by Burns, Finn has conceded precisely twice as many runs as Woakes, having bowled 26 deliveries to his team-mate’s 24. This, though, is a fine over, and there’s very nearly a second wicket from the last, which comes in a long old way and only just misses off stump.
Having dismantled one opener’s thumb Finn takes out the other’s middle stump, and off stump to boot, with a fast, full, straight screamer that comes in a little off the slope.
8th over: Australia 35-0 (Burns 17, Smith 16)
Smith leaves Woakes’ first delivery, which comes back into him and clips the pads. A loud appeal is rejected on grounds of height. And also width. Sky produce a graphic showing bowls faced by Smith today. Only one would have gone on to hit the stumps, and that went for four. The very next delivery is angled at the stumps, and it swiftly finds itself rumbling away through midwicket.
7th over: Australia 31-0 (Burns 17, Smith 12)
Finn gets one to move back into Burns, and it whooshes just past the inside edge. Unbothered, the batsman smacks the next two to the boundary, the first to backward point, the next past extra over, both struck low and firm.
6th over: Australia 22-0 (Burns 9, Smith 12)
More pain! Woakes bowls to Smith, who tries to smash through midwicket but only deflects the ball into his groinal area. He is able to resume play after a brief period of hopping about shouting “oooh”, and anyway he’d smashed the previous ball through midwicket. It’s a bad day all round for things at Lord’s called Warner – not only has David Warner’s thumb taken a pummelling, the Warner Stand is getting knocked down tomorrow.
5th over: Australia 16-0 (Burns 8, Smith 7)
Finn bowls short and wide to Smith, and this time he takes advantage, slicing high over all nearby fielders to the backward point boundary. The over ends with the day’s first vague appeal, but the ball hit Burns in the thigh pad and would have cleared the stumps by a good six inches.
4th over: Australia 11-0 (Burns 8, Smith 2)
Smith continues to feel his way into the game, inside-edging Woakes’ first delivery just wide of his stumps. He’s faced 12 balls so far, and looked a bit awkward for most of them. Burns is altogether smoother, and slides one to deep fine leg for a couple.
3rd over: Australia 8-0 (Burns 6, Smith 1)
A couple of singles, and then Burns powers the ball wide of cover to score the day’s first boundary.
2nd over: Australia 2-0 (Burns 1, Smith 0)
Woakes takes the other new ball, and when he gives Smith some width the batsman tries to smash it past Taylor at point, but it isn’t cleanly hit, and is excellently fielded. Then Smith, expecting a little away movement, plays around a delivery that passes just past his inside edge. Maiden over. “I feel like a fool now,” says a Dance Mom-addled Robert Wilson. “It’s masterly. Screw Dogme, this is a whole new thing. Clearly scripted, beautifully rehearsed. It’s revolutionary. And proof, if proof were needed, that Aaron Sorkin has not lost the touch of coked-up genius he once had. I’m breathless. Thank you and Withall. I won’t forget this.”
1st over: Australia 2-0 (Burns 1, Smith 0)
Finn’s bowls the day’s first over and the first two deliveries go for singles, the second – fast and vaguely short, arriving at Warner just over chest height – bringing an uncomfortable, squirming fend and then injury.
This is the ball that forced Warner from the field in the opening over #ENGvAUShttp://t.co/hU2w9uV8UL
Finn’s delivery comes off the handle of Warner’s bat and into his thumb and thence into the air. He could very easily have been caught, but he calls out the physios and they advise him to go anyway!
Cricketers! On the pitch! And not just messing about and playing football! Incredible scenes. Oh, to be alive to see this day.
“I began to write to you in a funk of disappointment at the absence of the crasherbasher Willey (if nothing else, it would have provided hours of innocent Brian Johnson type nomenclature fun with Watson and Cummins),” writes Robert Wilson. “But having read Phil Withall’s tweet, I’m now in a funk of something else entirely. Dance Moms?! It’s been a while since I’ve been back to the UK so please tell me that it was some attempt at humour from a feverish mind. Please tell me that there is no such thing as Dance Moms.”
I can confirm the existence of Dance Moms.
They’re still not playing cricket. Really, someone needs a stern talking to about this.
@Simon_Burnton Please let them start soon. Putting up with teenage daughter flicking between Dance Moms and a Glee based reality show.....
Another 24 minutes of mysteriously essential preparation to go, I’m afraid.
The full and confirmed teams in pictorial form, courtesy of Sky:
Here are the confirmed line-ups for the second #EngvAus ODI at Lord's. Join us on SS2 or here: http://t.co/255gN5zJefpic.twitter.com/SY9jJiO9Nj
Australia are unchanged. Steven Smith says:
We’re going to have to bat, but I would have had a bowl. It was nice playing here last time, and I was able to score a few runs. Hopefully more of the same today. I think you can always improve. It was a good start to the series, and hopefully we can continue playing some good cricket.
I don’t think we started all that well with the ball, I think all the bowlers knew that, and the way they came back was outstanding.
Pretty straightforward. I don’t think we’re going to see much sun for today, so best time to bowl is hopefully this morning.
Mark Wood is rested, and Liam Plunkett replaces him.
Finally and at long last, time for a coin toss.
These two tweets were posted within 10 seconds of each other. Gary Naylor, are you in fact John Etheridge?
So 11.30 start and 49 overs each. Would it have hurt to have started at 11.20 and played the full 50? Cricket is absurd at times.
So 11.30 start and 49 overs-a-side. Why not 11.20 start and 50 overs-a-side? Cricket is unfathomable at times.#engvaus
Still no action at Lord’s, but they’re at least starting to think about it …
@Simon_Burnton In white ball cricket, if it's not raining, they should be playing. What is actually happening in this fifty minutes delay?
I’m trying to puzzle that one out. The outfield is still slightly damp, apparently. But, an hour? Pah!
Further update: we’ve lost two overs. It’s a 49-over-a-side game.
Update: patches of blue sky are peeping out from behind the clouds. The toss will be tossed at 11am, and the match will start at 11.30am. David Gower on Sky is wondering why on earth we have to wait an entire hour for any cricket, and it does seem a little puzzling.
It’s not raining any more! The covers are being slowly and carefully removed, and we’re set on a gradual rumble up to actual cricket.
Here’s the rain radar, with the nasty clouds heading south and east. Not much heavy stuff about, and even the light stuff should be clear of St John’s Wood imminently:
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