Australia's men's cricket team, inspired by Travis Head, win their rain-hit, one-day international decider to clinch the series 3-2 against England at Bristol.
Travis Head starred with bat and ball as Australia won a rain-affected game in Bristol to clinch the ODI series with England .Captain Mitch Marsh has hailed both the calmness of his injury-hit team and the excellence of stand-in skipper Steve Smith as Australia celebrated a victorious, if somewhat soggy and anti-climactic, end to their UK tour.
Head, who began the series with a glorious ton, ended it with surprisingly masterful bowling, taking 4-28 off 6.2 overs, before his quickfire 31, allied to a record-breaking half-century from Matt Short, sealed the deal just before the deluge came.3rd ODI: England wins by 46 runs on DLS Pursuing England's formidable 309, the focus had been on whether Australia could score enough over their first 20 overs — the minimum needed to ensure a result — to get ahead on DLS.
The latest was Marsh's sore back, but former Test skipper Smith proved the safest pair of hands as a replacement from the moment he won a big toss and inserted England in ideal seaming conditions. "The way that, well Smudge especially, and the bowling attack assessed the conditions and were able to pull them back, it was a fantastic effort," said Marsh.
England then unravelled, Head coming on to grab the big wicket of Duckett, while Zampa got danger man Liam Livingstone caught behind for a duck. ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that's making headlines.
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