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. Hello Hobartpublished at 08:04 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    HobartImage source, Getty Images

    They are all day/night matches in this series and today they move to Hobart and the Bellerive Oval, now also known as the Blundstone Arena for the dreaded sponsorship purposes. We'll hope for a sunset like this one from 2015.

    It's only the third T20 international match at the venue and these two teams met in the last one four years ago when Cameron White made 75 for the Australians and England fell 13 runs short despite an unbeaten 65 from Ravi Bopara. Seems a while ago we saw him in an England shirt doesn't it? March 2015 it was. You never know, you might need that in a pub quiz.

  2. The formatpublished at 08:01 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    England, Australia and New Zealand will play each other twice - in either Australia or New Zealand - and the two leading teams will qualify for the final at Eden Park in Auckland on 21 February.

    Australia have taken the early initiative with a seven-wicket win under the DLS method against the Kiwis.

    Here's the wicket they're on today, courtesy of Cricket Australia.

    Bellerive OvalImage source, @CricketAus
  3. Welcomepublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 7 February 2018

    Hello again. England against Australia always gets the pulse racing and it's all to play for as we welcome you to our coverage of match two in the Trans-Tasman Twenty20 tri-series from Tasmania. Wow there's a tongue twister to start with.