England v Australia - Men - Ashes 2022 & 2023

Sunday 9th October - Optus Stadium, Perth - Australia won the toss and decided to field.

England 208-6 (20 overs) Hales 84, Buttler 68, Woakes 13no, Ellis 3-20.

Very good opening stand of 132 for the 1st wicket, 5 of the 6 Aussie bowlers went for 10 an over, except for the brilliant Nathan Ellis 4-0-20-3 = 5 per over.

A good total for the openers Warner and Green to chase down, should be a cracking spectacle.

Australia 200-9 (20 overs) Warner 73, Marsh 36, Stoinis 35, Wood 3-34, Curran 2-35, Topley 2-36.

England win by 8 runs and lead 1-0

Strange to put Cameron Green in as opener over Finch.

Next match is on Wednesday 12th October - Manuka Oval, Canberra - 09.10am

Latest: England 21-1, Buttler c Zampa b Cummins 17 from 13 balls with 3 x 4's.



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Latest: 10.53am, England 178-7, (20 overs)

Buttler 17, Hales 4, Stokes 7, Brook 1, Malan 82, Ali 44, Curran 8, Jordan 7no, Wliiey 0no, Stoinis 3-34.

Australia

Aaron Finch(c)
David Warner
Mitchell Marsh
Glenn Maxwell
Marcus Stoinis
Tim David
Matthew Wade(wk)
Pat Cummins
Mitchell Starc
Adam Zampa
Josh Hazlewood

Latest: 12.09pm, Australia 104-4 (13 overs) Warner 4, Finch 13, Maxwell 8, Marsh 37no, Stoinis 22, David 13no.

England were 103-4 (13 overs)

Latest: 12.40pm, Australia 148-6 (18 overs)

Warner 4, Finch 13, Maxwell 8, Marsh 45, Stoinis 22, David 40, Wade 4no, Cummins 2no, Curran 3-10.

Australia need 31 off 12 balls.

Australia need 13 off 3 balls.

Latest: 12.50pm, Australia 170-6 (20 overs)

Warner 4, Finch 13, Maxwell 8, Marsh 45, Stoinis 22, David 40, Wade 10no, Cummins 18no, Curran 3-25.

England win by eight runs to clinch series win 2-0, MOM Dawid Malan.

I hope after those first two matches that England don’t mess David Malan about. Leave him at number 3. He’s almost a specialist in that position and can be explosive or, as today, dig in and make a match-winning partnership with someone. Stokes needs to be lower down. I’m sure they will be contenders but that Australian team was almost their best team and I know the margin was only 8 runs but England bowled better and fielded a lot better. I’m not sure if anyone really takes much notice of the results in these warm up games, although I’m sure the Aussies want to beat the poms.
And, just an observation, but we have Jos B the best player of the scoop shot in the world so could he please show the rest of his team how to do it! You don’t move the bat, you wait for the right ball to come onto where your bat is. It does look awful when they move the bat around to try and play it. It never works.