Summary

  • Billings hits maiden ODI century for England

  • Bairstow leads England's recovery from 57-4 before falling for 84

  • Australia hit 294-9 after being put in by England

  • Archer & Wood takes three wickets each; Australia recover from 123-5

  • Maxwell hits 77 off 59 balls and Marsh scores 73 off 100

  • First game in three-match series at Emirates Old Trafford

  • Highlights on BBC Two at 23:20 BST

Live Reporting

Kal Sajad

  1. Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Australia needs to prise one of these two out. Starc looks the most likely for Finch to call on.

  2. Eng 151-4

    Good running between the wickets will be important too, as Billings works Stoinis off his hips down towards fine leg and the England pair run well for two more.

    And then a cut to point for another couple brings up England's 151-4.

    Where's this game going? What's going to happen? Buckle in and we'll talk you through it, this is what Friday nights are all about.

  3. Eng 147-4

    Mitchell Starc is loosening up. He still has five overs up his sleeve.

    Billings cuts for a single before Bairstow adds one more. Every hero needs a side kick, if England are to do this then Billings needs to also play an important innings here.

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  4. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on Test Match Special

    If Bairstow does take them home, from where he was, that would be an outstanding performance.

  5. England need 150 more runs from 114 balls. Stoinis will continue.

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    Rhys: Moeen Ali to come in, smoke it round the park, win it with a glorious hundred! You heard it here first...

  7. It's game on now, right? England can't afford to lose a wicket.

  8. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on Test Match Special

    They say double the score at 30-32 overs, so England are back in this now, especially since they bat so deep.

  9. Eng 145-4

    The TV cameras pan to Joe Root. Those golden locks of his draping down under his baseball cap. He needs a good hair trim.

    Pat Cummins bowls three dot balls to Billings, the pressure increasing on the England batsman.

    But Billings pulls the fourth delivery for four. Again, it's not middled but this outfield is still pretty quick.

  10. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Jonny Bairstow is starting to find his touch. It's been a real battle for him.

  11. Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on Test Match Special

    Marcus Stoinis is a typical T20 style bowler - he has a long run-up, you expect it to be quick, but you have to play him as a medium pacer who has lots of variety.

  12. Eng 140-4

    I'm a southerner who now lives right by Old Trafford. I always feel the cold up north. At all times of the year.

    Stoinis offers up some width and Bairstow carves it down to the deep point boundary for four.

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  13. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    The Tasmanians and Victorians in the Australian squad will have felt cold evenings like this before but any from further north will be feeling it now.

  14. Eng 134-4

    It's in the air ... and Bairstow is dropped by Labuschagne on the leg side off the free hit.

    England run two.

  15. Eng 132-4

    Marcus Stoinis comes into the attack and bowls a massive no ball. So a free hit for Bairstow... I love a free hit...

  16. Bairstow has his eye in. For England to win this match, it is likely they will need him to go big today. Three figures.

  17. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    What a shot that is! Pat Cummins, one of the quickest bowlers in the world, and a $2m IPL man, is heaved into the stands for six by Jonny Bairstow.

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    Eng 131-4

    Stand. And. Deliver.

    Under the lights of Old Trafford, Jonny Bairstow picks up an 88mph ball from Pat Cummins and sends it into the stands over mid-wicket. Wow.

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    John B: This England innings feels the opening scene of an episode of Casualty. There's always someone up a ladder/fixing the electrics, and you know it's only a matter of time before he falls off/electocutes himself, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it.

  20. Eng 122-4

    Glenn Maxwell will have a bowl. And he starts off with a wide down the leg side.

    There are a lot of gaps for England to find the gap and work the ones and twos. Eight from the over.

    A case of wait for the bad ball and keep the scoreboard ticking along?