Watch cricket video highlights of Australia tour of England 2024. First Twenty/20 between England and Australia. Venue of the match will be Southampton.
There wasn’t much grass on the ground, and some of the nation’s larger borders would be appropriate for Australia. The fall weather now settled in, albeit a little cool at night. Hampshire is turning on 1000 solar panels at Utilita Bowl prior to the game, which is sold out. Marsh did not reveal the Australian XI, but he did indicate that Hazlewood might make a comeback following his calf strain. He said that Fraser-McGurk might not bat first if Short plays, since he will start the batting.
More than a day before the match, England announced their starting lineup. While Jamie Overton, who was called up to replace Jos Buttler, makes his T20I debut as a batter-only while he continues to recuperate from a back ailment, Bethell and Jordan Cox will get their maiden caps. After March 2023, Saqib Mahmood plays in his first international match. First choice to replace David Warner at the head of Australia’s order went to Jake Fraser-McGurk. However, he had a difficult start against Scotland, making two ducks before reaching his T20I career’s 16-run mark.
He has been granted permission to attack at full speed from the first ball, but he did not seem to relish the sluggish, two-paced surfaces. These are quite different from the flat wickets in the Indian Premier League, where he made a name for himself earlier this year after having a fantastic home summer. In continuation with a thin MLC, Fraser-McGurk has scored 97 runs in his previous 10 T20 innings.
Fraser-McGurk might not play all three matches against England, or he might be tested in a different position, as Matt Short, who was only included in the ODI squad initially, is eligible for this series after the early birth of his first child, and there are other players who might open. You could nearly pick out an individual member of the England team given their recent makeover, so maybe it’s easier to focus on the starting XI as a whole.
However, Barbados-born all-rounder Jacob Bethell has been the buzz of the town this season, and his skills have already been recognized internationally with agreements for the BBL and SA20. With a strike-rate of 153.61 and an average of 36.10, he had an outstanding season with the Birmingham Bears in the T20 Blast, including a 50 off just 15 balls. I haven’t seen many guys stroke a ball like that, said Dan Mousley, his teammate and another member of the England team.
Are you ready for more Australia vs. England? Whatever your response, there are plenty of games still this month—eight in eighteen days, beginning with the first of three Twenty20 Internationals in Southampton—to be played. Five of the games after a Sri Lanka Test series, where the less-than-crammed stands on certain days was a talking point, sold out, demonstrating the popularity of the late-season activity from the perspective of the paying punters.
This series begins on the day following The Oval Test, which, had it gone to extra innings, would have been the final day of play, once again highlighting the absurdity of England’s scheduling. This means that the T20Is will have an almost totally different team (the only overlap being Josh Hull), in what will be England’s first series following a poor T20 World Cup performance that finally resulted in Matthew Mott’s dismissal.
Brendon McCullum will consolidate the England Men’s coaching roles in January, but Marcus Trescothick will lead the team during this series and the November West Indies tour (which falls between the Test series against Pakistan and New Zealand). Phil Salt will serve as the stand-in captain for the T20Is, replacing the injured Jos Buttler. Nevertheless, the England team has a wealth of white-ball experience.
Their depth seems substantial despite an unexpected ODI World Cup and a lackluster T20 version; maybe the golden generation was given a bit too much time before the next generation was unleashed. Mitchell Marsh downplayed claims that this T20 “reset” was a response to his team’s poor World Cup exit—they actually lost to England—before the three Scotland matches that kicked off Australia’s tour.
Though several of England’s Test players would have played if the calendar had permitted, the Australian squad’s transformation towards 2026 does feel more gradual than that of the national team. Following Travis Head’s opening-game rampage, they were highly effective in their three matches against Scotland, especially with Josh Inglis and Cameron Green, who were not included in the T20 World Cup team, producing outstanding performances.
The pace-bowling resources are being taxed due to a number of ailments, most notably Nathan Ellis’s withdrawal from the tour; however, Josh Hazlewood has returned to the team following his absence from the Scotland leg due to a minor calf strain. Australia will probably keep experimenting with their lineup and batting order in this series.
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