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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match Special
That is a ripper!
Summary
England win with 5.4 overs to spare
England lead 2-0 in five-match series
Root 46* & Woakes 39* seal victory
Hales 57, Bairstow 60, Buttler 42
Starc's 4-59 gives Australia hope
Aus 271-9: Finch 106; Root 2-31
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WICKETpublished at 37.4 overs
Moeen b Starc 1 (Eng 227-6)
Moeen averaged only 19 in the Ashes in true Paul Hardcastle fashion and he has only scored a single here. It was a good one in fairness, an inwinging yorker at 90mph plus. Good luck with that. Starc only has two deliveries remaining, England fans will be relieved to hear.
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Jim Maxwell
BBC Test Match SpecialThat is his strength as a bowler - he might go for a few fours, but he is an excellent strike bowler.
Postpublished at 10:15 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2018
James Taylor
Ex-England batsman on Test Match SpecialNo feet from Jos Buttler and just hanging his hands out there. Well bowled Mitchell Starc and good on Steve Smith for bringing back his strike bowler.
WICKETpublished at 37.1 overs
Buttler c Carey b Starc 42 (Eng 225-5)
Too late for Australia surely? But Buttler's enterprising innings when he edges a full length one from Starc. Only 32 balls and five fours in that innings. Moeen the new man.
Postpublished at 10:12 Greenwich Mean Time 19 January 2018
James Taylor
Ex-England batsman on Test Match SpecialThey're doing this at will - they're milking these part-time bowlers. It shows Australia's lack of confidence in the spin bowlers they have in the squad.
Eng 224-4published at 37 overs
Floodlights shining brightly into the night sky now and Head persists from round the wicket. Runs from every ball in the over and only 47 more needed now.
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A contender for the highest tweet of the day.
Eng 215-4published at 36 overs
Root 33, Buttler 37
Starc races in left-arm round with a packed off-side field, Buttler swipes him away for two more but there is a moment of fortune for the wicketkeeper when he gets a leading edge to one that one would have demolished the middle stump and it rolls to safety and allows another England.
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Missy Dawny: I’m following from Sunny Selsey in West Sussex where I’m looking after my poorly niece who is covered in chicken pox.
Probably no picture required in this instance...
Root dropped on 28published at 35 overs
Eng 209-4
A reprieve for Root against Head from round the wicket, Smith failing to cling on to a sharp chance at mid-wicket. Buttler compounds matters by scything his fifth boundary with those lightning hands of his.
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Eng 200-4published at 34 overs
71 needed off 16 overs
Richardson showing signs of weariness and there is a rueful shake of the head from the 21-year-old as he is called for a wide. Buttler then fetches one from wide of off-stump and heaves it over mid-wicket, one bounce and over the ropes it goes to bring up the 200. Time for drinks.
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Eng 188-4published at 33 overs
Stoinis is only in his 10th match and he has a best of 3-49 but no success yet today. Buttler takes on the short one and the top edge flies almost directly over the wicketkeeper's head for his third four. England now have as many boundaries as Australia managed in their 50 overs.
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Looks a bit like Teville Gate in Worthing to me...no, not that bad..
Eng 178-4published at 32 overs
93 more needed
Now it's Jhye, who took 2-25 from six overs earlier. Root clips two more through mid-wicket but they are the only runs in the over from the young fast bowler.
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Eng 176-4published at 31 overs
Target 281
Well Richie, I just found a study from 2006 that said Jhye was the 1,137th most popular name in Australia. What were the 1,136 others?! It's not Jhye but Tye in this one and Buttler pulls him away sharply to collect his first boundary.
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Richie Macca: Jhye has to be up there as the most bogan name in the history of Australian cricket.
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