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

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton and Jamie Lillywhite

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  2. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    That drop was not very costly for England at all. Jason Roy had the benefit of not having the sun in his eyes as Root did.

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    Starc c Roy b Woakes 3 (Aus 261-8)

    Root's drop cost only one run in the end as Mitchell Starc is safely pouched above his head by Jason Roy at deep mid-wicket, without the sun searing into his eyes.

  4. Ebony Rainford-Brent
    Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

    It's a great bit of athletic fielding in the end. Root realised the ball was flying to his left so dived and managed to get a hand on it.

  5. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    Joe Root has been foxed by the sunlight - he got set but lost the ball completely. He's shelled what should be a simple enough chance - although it's never that simple when you're staring straight at the sun.

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    Starc dropped on 2

    Aus 261-7

    Wood's ninth and final over. Five singles from the first five deliveries and should have been a wicket with the last but golden boy Root makes a rare blemish, losing sight of it on the boundary looking into the sun and only able to thrust out a speculative left side at the last moment.

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    Nick: Woakes there showing more ability with the ball at his feet than any of Villa's strikers this season.

  8. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    What an over from Chris Woakes that is - a wicket and Australia got just one off it. Eoin Morgan will be thrilled after England were asked to field first.

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  10. Aus 255-7

    Just the one run off the bat in that over from Woakes, who has only conceded 28 from his eight overs.

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    Carey run out (Woakes) 27 (Aus 255-7)

    Remarkable scenes. A tennis style smash from White, the ball trickles a few feet, they try a quick single but Woakes gets there first and side-foots it into the stumps, like an expert goal poacher tucking into the bottom corner from inside the six-yard box, leaving the diving Carey short of his ground.

  13. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    The variations Mark Wood has developed with the white ball over the last year has dramatically changed the way batsmen have to approach playing him. It's so much harder when you don't know what's coming down at you.

  14. Aus 254-6

    The camera pans for far too long on a man in ludicrously small swimming trunks by the pitchside pool but luckily for Wood he has not been subjected to it and his box of tricks keep the boundaries at bay. No wickets but his eight overs have only cost 48, which is almost considered parsimonious these days.

  15. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    It was a gutsy decision from Eoin Morgan to give Adil Rashid his final over, but it worked in Australia's favour there.

  16. Aus 248-6

    First impressions of debutant Carey are a resemblance to England captain Eoin Morgan - compact and unorthodox with fast hands scything the ball predominantly through the leg side. It's that area that brings him a boundary off Rashid but he shows he can play on the off side too with a lofted extra cover drive for his fourth boundary against the leg-spinner.

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  18. Aus 237-6

    White is aged 34 now, which is still young to some of us. He has a couple of ODI centuries, in 2009 and 2010, but then again this is only his second match since 2011.

    He gets one off the back of the bat and he mistimes a Wood short ball and time is running out for the Australians. Are they regretting the omission of the "Big Show" Maxwell?

  19. James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    England have done a brilliant job in the middle overs and then taken wickets at crucial times in the latter stages. They haven't allowed Australia to build partnerships, which are important in all forms of cricket.

  20. Aus 233-6

    Run-rate 5.30

    Rashid has a slip in to the new man Carey but that soon changes as the left-hander flicks successive leg-side boundaries, the sweep looks to be a favourite of his and 12 come from the over, the most productive of the innings.