For the first time in the game, we've got a review. James Taylor goes again for the pull shot, it passes over his head and through to Brad Haddin. Australia ask the question, but the replays show there's no touch on either bat or glove. Not out.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"I think Aaron Finch was too cool for school with that one. He jogged round very casually and barely got his fingers to it."

Thank you Marc, at times that last 25 overs has demanded a lot of fast typing amid an England middle order collapse. A sterling effort there. So what do England try and achieve out of the remainder of this game? Well, to start with Aaron Finch puts down a sitter as James Taylor mistimes a pull shot and picks him out at deep square leg. But, Finch somehow doesn't cling on.

Wisden editor Lawrence Booth:, external Luckily for England, the tournament format is so hopeless that this will all be forgotten when they lift the World Cup in seven weeks' time.

Like a cat teasing its prey, Australia are tormenting England now. It's almost as if they feel they can decide when to finish this one off. England are milking the ball into the gaps when they can, but there's more chance of Mitchell Johnson shaving his tash off than England chasing this down now.

Anyway, with that my time has come to hand over the live text baton. Adam Williams has been warming up and has given the umpire his sweater. Here he is...

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"What positives could you come up with today? Well, I suppose it hasn't rained! Steven Finn has taken a hat-trick even though the first two dismissals were about as far away as you can get from each other in the field. Third man followed by long-off."

I bet Australia head coach Darren Lehmann is chuffed to bits with this performance. He'll be cracking open a celebratory, Valentine's tinny in the dressing room. Good, old Boof... he's certainly transformed this Australia team. They are a formidable outfit once again but England are still in there fighting, albeit with the last rites being read. James Taylor top-edges a four off Josh Hazlewood. Savour it.

Michael Wallace: It's hard living in Australia and being English. Playing cricket this poorly doesn't make it any easier.

Fred Carter: Become England ODI captain = you don't score runs!

Andrew Goodfellow: When they suggested Morgan as captain needed to get his ducks in a row, I don't think this is what they had in mind.

Should we be getting worried about England's chances of beating Scotland, Afghanistan and Bangladesh? That's the bare minimum they would likely need to reach the quarter-finals. Another Mitchell, the one named Starc, comes into the attack to try and finish off England and there's some brief respite for the visiting fans when Chris Woakes clips a boundary through the leg side. Only brief, mind.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"England have had moments today where they've been in the game, Stuart Broad took two quick wickets early on and they also took a couple close together after Aaron Finch's century. But, since then, there's only been one team in it - the team in Australian gold."

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Earlier today, Steven Finn took the second most expensive five-wicket haul in one-day international history. Compare his 5-71 with Mitchell Marsh's figures: 7-0-18-5.

Allan Border
Ex-Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

"That's as good as it gets. It's just absolute sheer brilliance. An absolute ripper which was struck as hard as you can strike a cricket ball and Steve Smith has just flung himself to his left and clung on to a spectacular catch."

What an incredible catch. Think Jonty Rhodes in terms of its magnificence.

Jos Buttler smashes one straight out of the meat of the bat and Steve Smith takes a flying, two-handed catch at short cover. That was travelling and Smith plucked the white ball out of the air as if it was a passing marshmallow. Mitchell Marsh is happy too - that's his five-for.

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James Taylor and Jos Buttler are being positive in adversity, with the latter reverse-sweeping Glenn Maxwell for four. A few ones and twos make it 11 from the over.

Allan Border
Ex-Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

"The tone was set for England when that catch went down in the first over as Chris Woakes put Aaron Finch down on nought. It wasn't an absolute dolly, but it was a catch at this level you should take. If you take it, it just gives you that lift and a perfect start."

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England 80-5 (20 overs) - target 343

Batsmen: Taylor 8*, Buttler 3*

Fall of wickets: 25-1 (Moeen 10), 49-2 (Ballance 10), 66-3 (Bell 36), 66-4 (Root 5), 73-5 (Morgan 0)

Bowling figures: Starc 3-1-10-1, Hazlewood 4-0-30-0, Johnson 5-0-13-0, Marsh 6-0-15-4, Watson 1-0-5-0, Maxwell 1-0-6-0

Australia 342-9 (50): Finch 135, Maxwell 66, Finn 5-71

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Mitchell Marsh is following in well-trodden footsteps, with his father Geoff being part of Australia's team which won the 1987 World Cup. James Taylor is still in there and fighting for England and he takes a quick single. Jos Buttler also picks up a single but it's heavy going for England.

New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson tweets:, external Awesome win today by the boys! Great start to the World Cup Campaign #backtheblackcaps

Read more about Anderson's innings of 75 and New Zealand's 98-run victory.

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I'll be honest... I had high hopes for England today. It's like the first day of the football season when you dream of success but your team gets walloped 4-0 in their opening game. James Taylor and Jos Buttler face mission impossible now. They take six from Glenn Maxwell's first over.

Felix Keith: Sorry everyone. Just got up and started watching - cue batting collapse. Mitchell Marsh though, seriously?!

Dennis Ethan: Root and Bell fall in successive balls. Ridiculous! LOL at England

James White: This is all very predictable. England one-day cricket is a total mess. No purpose with the batting and no variation with the bowling.