For the first time in the history of ODI cricket, Australia got so many overs from spinners, created a great record.

England vs Australia ODI Series: The Australian team performed brilliantly in ODI cricket against England and won the five-match series 3-2. Australia won the fifth match by 49 runs using Duckworth-Lewis rule. Steve Smith was captaining the Australian team in this match. Under his captaincy, the team won the toss and decided to bowl first. England gave Australia a target of 310 runs to win.

Ben Duckett scored a century

England's openers Phil Salt and Ben Duckett batted excellently. Both these players hit strokes on every side of the field. Salt was out after scoring 45 runs. Whereas Duckett scored an excellent century and it was because of him that the England team was able to reach a big score. He scored 107 runs in 91 balls. Whereas captain Harry Brook played an inning of 72 runs. But as soon as the players were out, England's run rate was curbed. Australian captain Steve Smith played a masterstroke and got a lot of overs from the spinners and England's batsmen had to face difficulty in playing the spinners.

Australia got 32.2 overs from the spinners.

The Australian team got 32.2 overs done by the spinners. Earlier in an ODI match, Australia had not bowled so many overs from the spinners. Earlier in the year 2019, in the ODI match, Australia had bowled 32 overs from the spinners against Pakistan. In the match against England, Adam Zampa bowled 10 overs for Australia, Glenn Maxwell bowled 10 overs, Cooper Connolly bowled 4 overs, Matthew Short bowled 2 overs and Travis Head bowled 6.2 overs.

Matthew Short scored a half century

After this, Australia got a great start by Travis Head and Matthew Short. Short scored a half-century. He played an inning of 58 runs. Apart from this, Travis Head contributed 31 runs. Steve Smith remained not out after scoring 36 runs and Jose English remained not out after scoring 28 runs. Australia had scored 165 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 20.4 overs. Then the game could not be played due to rain and Australia won by Duckworth-Lewis rule.

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