Watch cricket video highlights of Australia tour of England 2024. Fourth one day international between England and Australia. Venue of the match will be Lord’s.
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England crushed Australia by 186 runs at Lord’s on Sunday, putting on a fantastic all-around performance that set up a series finale at Bristol. The innings was driven by Harry Brook’s outstanding 87, which was crowned by Liam Livingstone’s explosive hitting in a ground-record 25-ball half-century. After that, Jofra Archer gave fans a small taste of what it was like to be in 2019 with the finest outing of his most recent comeback, while Matthew Potts put on a dominant display to record a career-high 4 for 38.
Recalling the thrilling Ashes Test of the previous year, there was also a brief instance in which an Australian wicketkeeper caught attention. On 17, Brook was given out after glancing at Mitchell Starc down the leg side. However, he questioned if Josh Inglis, who had been restored to the side due to an injury, had made the catch. Replays revealed that the ball pitched just in front of his gloves. The photographs were shown on a huge screen amid booing from the audience and some cries of’same old Aussies, always cheating’, but this was a mild interlude because 2023.
As England raced through the gears in a match that was shortened to 39 overs by heavy morning rain, Brook, who had scored his first ODI hundred in Durham, glided to a 37-ball fifty, adding 79 in 53 balls for the third wicket with Ben Duckett and 75 in 47 with Jamie Smith for the fourth. With four sixes off the last over thrown by Starc, whose 28 runs surrendered made it the most costly over by an Australian bowler in men’s ODIs, Livingstone created a thrilling finale to the innings. In their last 15 overs, England scored 156 runs.
With Travis Head hitting a massive pull out of the stadium over the Tavern Stand, Mitchell Marsh and Head gave the daunting chase a promising start. Following the eight-over powerplay, Australia were 66 without loss against England’s 34 without loss. The game’s total of 16 sixes struck set a record for a Lord’s ODI. Still, maintaining the pace was a difficult task. Steven Smith almost avoided a brutal charge from Potts as Head sailed past the line at Brydon Carse. Then Archer made something truly remarkable.
After shaping in at Marsh, an off-cutter accelerating to 88.2 mph straightened out to beat the edge and crash off stump. Archer duly spun away in excitement after getting his first Lord’s wicket since 2019. It was a beauty of a ball. The 2019 memories were in full swing, although with colorful attire, as his next ball clattered into Marnus Labuschagne’s forearm. Archer also added Glenn Maxwell amid Australia’s collapse. Before long, though, Carse produced an unplayable offering to flatten Labuschagne’s off stump, making his ball to Marsh a candidate for delivery of the game (or series).
Before Adil Rashid wrapped things up, England’s quicks put in a team effort, sharing nine wickets, with Potts getting three in four balls to go through the bottom order. After England was called into bat, the ball nibbled about early under dense cloud. Shortly after the powerplay, Phil Salt was caught by the great Josh Hazlewood, skewing him to backward point. In his second over, Will Jacks picked out the same fielder, giving Marsh his first wicket since April 3. It was noteworthy that Marsh returned with the ball on a day when Cameron Green’s back issue was made public.
Before his near-dismissal, Brook had jumped out of the blocks with three leg-side boundaries, giving the impression that he was playing a different game than the other batsmen. This gave England momentum as they advanced towards him. Sean Abbott’s costly series went on; at the end of the innings, his three outings’ total numbers stood at 19.4-0-165-0. Brook and Duckett faced Adam Zampa in addition to the remaining overs of spin from Maxwell and Labuschagne.
One ball later, Duckett, who had earlier given Starc a challenging return catch before scoring, smashed Zampa over long-on for six and proceeded to work hard to reach a hard-earned 51-ball half-century before top-siding the legspinner to deep backward square. Zampa was dismissed wide long on by Smith, who kept up his aggressive style, and Brook struck a second six to deep midwicket in the same ball. The spinners’ 12 overs went for 106. Smith almost escaped getting run out due to a moment of inattention when he failed to run his bat in at the non-striker’s end.
Nevertheless, Australia lost six runs due to the ball’s deflection going to the rope. By that point, Brook was vying with Jos Buttler for England’s fastest ODI century at Lord’s, which came from 61 balls, but Zampa ended his stay when Brook was caught long-on. In the subsequent over, Smith was dismissed by slicing Maxwell to short third, but any worries that the innings may end slowly were dispelled by Livingstone’s incredible late-round power.
The audience erupted in excitement as Starc’s numbers were dismantled, including two sixes into the pavilion, after he delivered a massive hit over midwicket off Hazlewood. In contrast to previous summer, an England-Australia series reaches the decisive game 2-2, yet Bristol’s weather may still have the last word.
