Summary

  • Maxwell hits six to win game and bring up century

  • All-rounder ends unbeaten on 103 off 58 balls

  • England posted 155-9 after collapsing from 94-2

  • Malan hit 34-ball half-century; Morgan & Hales 22 apiece

  • Maxwell took 3-10, Agar 2-15

  • England's first game of a tri-series also involving NZ

  1. Postpublished at 10:20 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    Credit to Australia - Agar and Maxwell got some grip on this surface and the seam bowlers varied their pace well.

  2. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 10:18 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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    Phillip Sterling: From below Buttler everyone looks a place high, the effect of no Stokes & Moeen in this line-up.

    Mike Fisher: Individual players making rash decisions so early in their innings. Got to wonder what messages they're being given before they walk out to bat.

  3. Postpublished at 10:17 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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

    I don't want to jump in too hard because I've really enjoyed watching England play attacking white ball cricket over the last two years, but they need to find the right balance.

  4. Postpublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    England are usually better at assessing and taking the right options. They are a lot better side than we saw in that innings.

  5. Postpublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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

    David Willey's dismissal annoyed me the most. There had been a wicket the ball before and it was time to rebuild for a few balls, but he basically played a shot before the ball was released!

  6. Postpublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    So 13 fours and five sixes in that England innings, but when Eoin Morgan was out in the 10th over the score was 94-3.

  7. 6 runs

    Eng 155-9published at 20 overs

    Jordan manages to break his bat, not with a towering six but by slipping over at the non-striker's end. However, they bring him a new one and he uses it superbly to flick the final ball of the innings over mid-wicket for six. Will it be enough?

  8. Postpublished at 10:07 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    England have blown themselves out of the water. They got off to a great start, Dawid Malan then played a class innings but they've been dismal since.

    WarnerImage source, EPA
  9. Eng 143-9published at 19 overs

    Only four singles in the Richardson over. Are we going to see some heroics from the final six balls?

  10. How's stat?!published at 10:03 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

  11. Eng 140-9published at 18 overs

    Richardson 1-24 from 3

    So we are down to the last man for England, Mark Wood. Will they survive the 20 overs? A sprinkling of singles are mustered but what can they add from the remaining 12 deliveries?

  12. Postpublished at 10:01 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    AgarImage source, Getty Images

    The brainless cricket from England continues.

  13. Postpublished at 10:01 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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

    England are trying to go so hard, they're playing shots before the ball has come out so can't see if it's a slower one or not.

  14. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 17.2 overs

    Curran c Warner b Tye 6 (Eng 137-9)

    Six and out for young Tom. Plenty of loft on it but not enough welly this time and Warner runs back to pouch it at deep cover.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 09:59 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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    Charles Duncan: Morgan stealing all the strike off Malan meant none of these batsmen could play second fiddle while getting in because the rate dropped so much. Poor.

  16. 6 runs

    Eng 136-8published at 17 overs

    What a winter Tom Curran is having, fresh from that five-wicket haul in the ODI finale, he backs away to give himself room against big Billy Stanlake and swipes his first ball for six.

  17. Postpublished at 09:56 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

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

    Glenn MaxwellImage source, Getty Images

    Since Australia put the squeeze on with the ball, England really haven't got their heads round this game.

  18. Postpublished at 09:55 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    This is a gargantuan collapse.

  19. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 16.3 overs

    Rashid c Stoinis b Stanlake 1 (Eng 127-8)

    Rashid takes on the pace and bounce of Billy Stanlake and gets tucked up for the pull shot, which goes straight to the man at deep mid-wicket.

  20. Eng 127-7published at 16 overs

    Sussex bowler Chris Jordan is the new man to the crease. He has a best of 27 not out in the T20 international game and he's going to need a few in these last four overs.