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Sat 16 Jun 2018 14.56 EDTFirst published on Sat 16 Jun 2018 05.24 EDT
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Moeen Ali celebrates taking the wicket of Australia’s Glenn Maxwell.
Moeen Ali celebrates taking the wicket of Australia’s Glenn Maxwell. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters
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The right result. Plunkett deservedly finished with 4/53 and Rashid 3/70. Expensive, but the wickets he took were vital. As were the couple from Moeen early to put Australia into such a difficult position at 164-5 in the 31st over. Shaun Marsh never gave it up though, and when he found a suitable partner in Ashton Agar, they got the visitors back in the game with a brilliant 94-run stand. The opener’s 131 from 116 balls was elegant, controlled and brutal depending on what the circumstances required, the younger man (46) showing once again that he has a massive future at international level.

Who says 50-over cricket is no good? Not me. That was a great game. Keep an eye on the website for Vic Marks’ match report. We’ll be back with OBOs from both this series and the England/South Africa/New Zealand T20 tri-series during the week. Thanks for your company. Bye for now from Cardiff!

ENGLAND WIN BY 38 RUNS!

Jhye Richardson is the last man to fall, holing out to long-on to give Plunkett his fourth. Kane Richardson (0*) the not out man.

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WICKET! Tye c Billings b Rashid (Australia 303-9)

That should be it. Tye, who can give it a wallop, did find the backward square boundary when Wood miscalculated his run on the rope. But he couldn’t get it over the boundary at long-off with his next swing, picking out Billings who doesn’t drop catches. That’s Rashid’s 100th ODI wicket and his third of the evening.

@collinsadam Paris calling. I don't care what anyone says. Is it ok if if I just crush out on Rashid, that googly little dreamboat? Pick the bones outta that one. Rasheeeeeeeeed! pic.twitter.com/0GvP2SHsVd

— Robert McL Wilson (@Parisbob2001) June 16, 2018


46th over: Australia 295-8 (Tye 2, J Richardson 1) Target 343 “What a knock,” says Phil Tufnell of Marsh on TMS. Too right. He has really put himself into the World Cup frame for next year, for mine. Five runs and the two wickets from the superb Plunkett over. So, Australia need 48 from four.

WICKET! Marsh b Plunkett 131 (Australia 293-8)

The end of a tremendous innings, bowled by a delivery where the big quick rolled his fingers down the seam and hit leg stump. Marsh was trying to heave it over midwicket but full credit to the bowler. In the space of a few balls, Plunkett has locked this up for the hosts.

Liam Plunkett celebrates with Jos Buttler after bowling Shaun Marsh. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images
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WICKET! Paine c Rashid b Plunkett 15 (Australia Australia 292-7)

Paine holes out! Nothing special about that slower ball from Plunkett, sitting up for Paine, but didn’t make the contact he needed to clear the rope. He was dropped the delivery before by Moeen when miscusing a lofted drive but it has only cost them two runs in the wash. Unless Marsh does something astonishing from here... you know what I’m going to say.

45th over: Australia 290-6 (Marsh 131, Paine 13) Target 343 Real gut-running from these two, unable to find the boundary off Rashid, who holds his nerve, but still taking nine from a series of whips and drives and dabs. That’s experience. They are still in this.

44th over: Australia 281-6 (Marsh 128, Paine 7) Target 343 Wide from Wood to begin helps. Both Marsh then Paine are trying to hit the cover off it, the latter the first to found the boundary with a bold hook shot that splits the gap in the deep. BOOOOM! Shaun Marsh goes inside out over cover for SIX! That’s a mighty shot, down on one knee as he made contact. FORGET WHAT I SAID FIVE MINUTES AGO, this is game on again! 16 from it, leaving 62 from 36 balls. If Marsh is there at the end, Australia should win. Wowsers.

43rd over: Australia 265-6 (Marsh 119, Paine 2) Target 343 It is Paine who joins Marsh, cutting to cover for one to get off the mark. Runs of the smaller variety from each of the four remaining deliveries in the Rashid set but only six from it in total, alongside the wicket. That should be the over that finishes Australia. Should.

WICKET! Agar st Buttler b Rashid 46 (Australia 260-6)

Agar played beautifully but Rashid has done him with a lovely wrong’un, tempting him out of his ground and beating the edge. That really turned; Buttler did the rest. They put on 96. Will Paine bat next after the knock he copped earlier?

42nd over: Australia 259-5 (Marsh 115, Agar 46) Target 343 BOSH! Shaun Marsh hits a BIG SIX off Wood over midwicket to start the new over. Real stand and deliver stuff. What a partnership this has been, now worth 87 in 65 balls. The quick fights back well but can’t close off the over, spraying a legside wide. Will Marsh take advantage of the extra delivery? He won’t, misjudging a slower ball that hits him in the stomach. They take a leg bye. Oh, ignore me: there’s one more ball to come and Agar bashes it through the gap at cover for four! Big over, 14 off it to leave 84 from 48. Gosh!

41st over: Australia 245-5 (Marsh 108, Agar 41) Target 343 I still get the feeling all England need is one wicket to close this off as a serious contest, the visitors requiring nearly 11 an over. Rashid is back, who has bowled just the four overs. He’s right on the money, preventing either player freeing the arms and find the rope. That is until the final ball of the over, Plunkett allowing Agar’s cut to go through his legs! So, it should have been five from the over instead it is nine. Hmmm. 98 from 54 the new equation.

40th over: Australia 236-5 (Marsh 107, Agar 35) Target 343 Important over from Plunkett here, who has been very good today. Plenty going on, Agar pulling four to fine leg but only after swinging and missing twice. A wide in there as well. A blockhole delivery to finish, meaning just six came from it. Advantage England. Ten to go.

39th over: Australia 230-5 (Marsh 104, Agar 31) Target 343 Joe Root? for the 39th? Sure, why not. It has not worked though, Agar hitting back to back boundaries to finish the over and keep Australia very much alive! They went through cover then smaaaashed past midwicket. Two runs came from the first four deliveries, to be fair, but they picked up the two fours they need per over, or thereabouts. 11 off it.

Shaun Marsh celebrates after reaching his century. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images
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Shaun Marsh brings up his fourth ODI century!

38th over: Australia 219-5 (Marsh 102, Agar 23) Target 343 Marsh to 97... Shaun Marsh to 100! Consecutive boundaries off Plunkett to start his new over. The stroke to 100 is a wooooonderful clip. It took 95 balls to raise his ton, striking 10 fours and a six. For a man who has routinely found himself out of the Australian white-ball teams, he’s making a bit of a statement here. Nice applause from the Glamorgan crowd - he does play for them after all. Ten from the over all told, so he’s on the rate required as well.

37th over: Australia 209-5 (Marsh 93, Agar 22) Target 343 Carbon copy of the over before, in that there was a boundary early in the over - Marsh clipping Moeen beautifully - but only three other singles. They need to break it open asap. Moeen finishes with 10-0-47-2 with Short and Maxwell’s wickets. Having a good series.

36th over: Australia 202-5 (Marsh 88, Agar 20) Target 343 Shot! Willey gives Agar just enough room to play a fabulous cut to the boundary. He’s a lovely player to watch. Only three other singles to go with it though, so the over ends up hindering the overall task. Australia’s 200 did come up in the over, though. So there’s that.

“Am I alone in experiencing the slightly queasy sensation of having over indulged in the multiple sporting events today?” asks Brian Withington. “Have even switched off US Open App until later this evening to reduce sensory overload. Please can you guide us through a calming denouement in Cardiff without any of the usual indigestible morsels?”

Well, I don’t think I’m spoiling the surprise by saying that I’ve filed a piece on watching the Socceroos from the press box earlier today (sort of), so I might not be the best person to wean you off. Bonkers morning, wasn’t it? I didn’t watch a minute of (my) footy, Hawthorn smashing last year’s grand finalists, Adelaide, by ten goals at the ‘G.

35th over: Australia 195-5 (Marsh 87, Agar 14) Target 343 Moeen lofted over extra cover for four by Agar. Nice swing of the willow. Couple of singles and a few dots. Required rate about to click over to 10RPO. Who takes ownership over turning up the volume? Maybe Marsh? He looks spent between the wickets but still striking well.

“Good evening Adam, from sunny Piedmont,” emails Finbar Anslow. “As a Somerset fan I’m getting a little worried here, Mr Paine and co couldn’t call up Matt Renshaw could they?” In short: they probably should, but they won’t. Rest easy.

34th over: Australia 189-5 (Marsh 86, Agar 9) Target 343 Willey gets another go but doesn’t concern either of the left-handers. Agar is cutting then pushing; Marsh glancing to fine leg for a few then driving straight. There’s a legside wide in there too. Ooh, nearly a run out to finish. Agar called Marsh through running to the danger end, he would have been out had Roy hit. Nine from it as they have a drink. 154 needed from 16, so that’s a required rate of 9.62 to the finish line. Yeah, wouldn’t have thought so.

33rd over: Australia 180-5 (Marsh 82, Agar 5) Target 343 Five singles from the Moeen over, most of which went down the ground. Should help Agar get his eye in. “If they are thinking about next year already and the World Cup,” says Adam Gilchrist on TMS, “then I really think they need to get Alex Carey into this team.” Very interesting.

32nd over: Australia 175-5 (Marsh 80, Agar 2) Target 343 Bouncer from Wood to Agar, lucky not to be given as a wide. More short stuff at Agar, who is only able to turn the strike over from the final ball of the over with a push to cover. Gee, watching that back, he would have been run out had the throw been on target from Bairstow at the end Marsh was running to.

31st over: Australia 174-5 (Marsh 80, Agar 1) Target 343 Shot! Marsh drives wonderfully off the back foot through cover, hit too well for the sweeper. He get another boundary to finish the Moeen over, albeit off an edge though slip but there isn’t a fielder there at this stage of the innings. On reflection, more a deflection than an edge. Deserves a ton. I’m now going to change Marsh’s score to what it says on the board at the ground.

WICKET! Maxwell c Willey b Moeen 31 (Australia 164-5)

Fantastic bowling from Moeen Ali, enticing Maxwell to clear mid-off. Instead, he hacks it to long-on where Willey takes a straightforward chance. They shut him down perfectly at the moment he looked like really unleashing. Moeen, the main bowler in that plan, has conceded just 19 runs in 6.1 overs without going for a boundary. Well earned

30th over: Australia 164-4 (Marsh 73, Maxwell 31) Target 343 Wood to Maxwell. Michael Vaughan reckons that he might the long-handle now but he can’t early on, denied by a slower one. Next chance he gets, the right-hander can’t beat mid-on with a nicely struck drive. He misses a clip as well, the second time he’s raced through for a leg bye in the over. Credit to the England quick for his variety here. Last ball, short to Marsh who pulls hard but only as far as Root as midwicket. Good contest, this. One that the hosts have pushed ahead in again over the last four overs. Just three leg byes, so a maiden, technically. We can debate whether it should be.

29th over: Australia 161-4 (Marsh 73, Maxwell 31) Target 343 Marsh is beaten by Moeen and Buttler takes the bails, the appeal just enthusiastic enough to send it upstairs. But his foot is down, no worries there. Beats him later in the over when trying to sweep as well. Just the Maxwell single to begin, nothing further.

28th over: Australia 160-4 (Marsh 73, Maxwell 30) Target 343 Right, so Buttler keeps swinging the changes, Mark Wood back for a second stint. Once again, the pair are happy enough to accumulate in singles, five of them. The 50 partnership is up, stitching that together in 43 balls. There’s an inconsistency between various scorecards on what Marsh is on at the moment but I’ll stick with what I have for now.

26th over: Australia 151-4 (Marsh 68, Maxwell 26) Target 343 Right, firstly, apologies for having Maxwell listed as Finch in the brackets until the last over; my bad. Fixed now. Secondly, another good over, the fourth in a row where a boundary was struck. It’s through the cordon, so less convincing than the previous Maxwell fours so far, but it is a calculated risk with nobody back there. 26 from 21 he is as the Mexican Wave begins around Sophia Gardens.

25th over: Australia 144-4 (Marsh 66, Maxwell 21) Target 343 Heeeeere comes the Big Show. But not as you might imagine with me calling him that. He gets all of the 12 runs made in the over, making 31 in the last three. The right-hander bookends the set with boundaries, smashing Rashid through midwicket with authority and using his feet to drive through cover through the air. Lovely timing. Between times, a couple of hard-run twos. He’s into the 20s. I reckon, touch wood, he’s on.

24th over: Australia 132-4 (Marsh 66, Maxwell 9) Target 343 Another big over in the context of a chase that is yet to get rocking and rolling, nine from it with a couple of boundaries. Maxwell nailed a pull shot from a short Plunkett delivery that didn’t get up - a bit of Ricky Ponting to that one. Marsh finishes with a slap past point into the gap, keeping that required rate at eight an over. Nothing overly daunting about that for Maxwell, that’s for sure. If Marsh can just keep going, well, who knows.

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23rd over: Australia 123-4 (Marsh 62, Maxwell 4) Target 343 Australia’s best over so far, taking ten off it. Marsh drove Rashid lavishly through cover to begin then punched three more to the same part of the field. Singles exchanged through the rest of the set.

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22nd over: Australia 113-4 (Marsh 53, Maxwell 3) Target 343 Swing and a miss! Maxwell picks the one that really bounces off a length and he’s beaten. Plunkett is right on the mark to the Victorian until the final delivery, which he’s able to clip behind square for a couple.

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21st over: Australia 111-4 (Marsh 53, Maxwell 1) Target 343 It wasn’t really much of a sweep on reflection, just trying to turn it around the corner. Maxwell is the new man, who has a ball to see off and he does with a single down the ground. Before Finch fell, Marsh brought up his 50 with a wallop over midwicket.

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WICKET! Finch lbw b Rashid 0 (Australia 110-4)

Aaron Finch was shuffled down to number five in order to play against the spinners but it has backfired! The Victorian got down low to sweep the legspinner but he misses the ball. No review required there. Out for a duck! Australia in strife.

Aaron Finch walks off after being dismissed. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters
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20th over: Australia 103-3 (Marsh 46, Finch 0) Target 343 Welcome to The Real Quiz. Aaron Finch averaged 92 against England earlier this year, albeit as an opener. He’s the one Australian (well, other than Maxwell) who can legitimately chase down a score like this. First ball, he gets the board ticked over by four via the leg byes. Poor ball first up to the Aussie vice-captain. Much better at the end, beating him with a beauty! They need exactly eight an over to win from here.

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WICKET! Stoinis b Plunkett 9 (Australia 99-3)

Chops on! Straight into his middle stump. The end of an unconvincing stay for the big right-hander. Buttler, the stand-in skipper, rewarded for swinging the changes.

Australia’s Marcus Stoinis is bowled by Liam Plunkett. Photograph: Nigel French/PA
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19th over: Australia 99-2 (Marsh 46, Stoinis 9) Target 343 Right, so it is Rashid for the first time today. Wrong’un to begin, Marsh getting it down the ground, then Stoinis miscues through the air over cover for a couple. Good early questions. Later, he brings Marsh forward with another wrong’un then a leg break. Seven from the over but not a lot wrong with it.

18th over: Australia 92-2 (Marsh 43, Stoinis 6) Target 343 That was Shaun Marsh’s first six in ODIs in 625 balls (Sep 2013 his most recent) says Andy Zaltzman. He keeps the strike with a single down the ground.

“Off the top of the collective OBO head (OBOnce), can anyone think of a better ODI bowler with a worse average than Moeen? (Currently 64 wickets at 47.45),” asks Tom Bowtell. “I guess with scoring rates rocketing, 47.45 is the new 33.17.”

17.4 overs: Australia 91-2 (Marsh 42, Stoinis 6) Target 343 Marsh is an experienced player and would know that it isn’t sustainable to let the game drift away from Joe Root’s bowling. He steps down and slaps the part-timer over long-on for a big six. Not quite as big as the time Chris Cairns lobbed one into the river here against Australia in the 1999 World Cup. They are going to change the ball though, so it is a premature drinks break with two balls to come in the over.

17th over: Australia 84-2 (Marsh 36, Stoinis 5) Target 343 Moeen landing right where he needs to keep Stoinis quiet early on, the right-hander happy to eventually push one to long-on, Marsh picks out the same fielder to long-off after using his feet. As Tuffers notes on the radio, the plan here will be to push through as many quick and frugal overs as they can from the offies before unleashing the wristspin of Adil Rashid. Leg slip comes in for the last couple of balls, Big Marcus deciding to play along the carpet to deep backward square. Only three from it.

16th over: Australia 81-2 (Marsh 35, Stoinis 3) Target 343 Right, here comes the rebuild. Nothing urgent about the singles taken around the sweepers here. Only three of them though, Marsh drawn forward in defence from the last couple. The last of those, TMS tell me, was a little leg-cutter from Root.

15th over: Australia 78-2 (Marsh 34, Stoinis 1) Target 343 One ball for Stonis to see from Moeen, over the wicket it comes and the huge right-hander plays a lap well enough to squeeze a single to get off the mark. The end of the successful over. Earlier in it, Jonny Bairstow left the field, limping around the rope after making a diving stop at long-on. We’ll keep an eye on that one.

WICKET! Short c Root b Moeen 21 (Australia 77-2)

Round the wicket from Moeen, Short edges a sharp chance to Root at first slip from the crease. His debut hand is over with spin doing the trick. “They have put a real squeeze on them,” Jimmy Anderson says on radio of the tweakers. Sure have. The hosts on top.

Moeen Ali celebratesafter taking the wicket of Australia’s Short for 21. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images
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14th over: Australia 74-1 (Short 21, Marsh 31) Target 343 Joey Root, have a trundle. Just as he did at The Oval, the Test captain is on to try and bleed a couple of quick overs out of the Australian innings. He’s done in perfectly, racing through giving up just three. Ten singles from three overs of England spin so far, Andy Zaltzman says on TMS.

13th over: Australia 71-1 (Short 20, Marsh 29) Target 343 Moeen wins an error from Marsh, another nearly/kinda drop at midwicket? Tom Curran is on from Willey and it is had to tell if it carried. Either way, the West Australian survives. Four singles to the sweepers picked up along the way. Short looking more comfortable now as well.

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