Tri-Series 2015 Match 4: Australia vs England - Cricket Highlights

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Australia was the first side through to the final of triangular series in Perth, after securing a three-wicket victory over England in Hobart. It was a near thing though, coming down to the second-last ball, England had set Australia target of 304, sent in to bat, England's opening partnership of a 113 between Ian Bell & Moin Ali is certainly got the of to a fantastic start. Ian Bell played a fine innings & in the process of scoring a century, became England's highest One Day International run-scorer. England's problems really came in the last ten overs, their middle-order big-hitters failed to fire. They didn't reach the boundary once after the 44th over, their terrific start probably finishing maybe about 30 runs short on a very good batting deck in Hobart. Chasing 304 for victory, Australia managed their run-chase quite well. They were without David Warner at the top but Shaun Marsh & Aron Finch got them off to a very brisk start. But it was Steve Smith who anchored the innings for Australia, He came in as captain in the place of George Bailey who is serving a one-match ban for slow over-rate, & He was impressive as He's been trhoughout the summer. It looked as the Australia were going to reach the target with relative ease, particularly after some big-hitting from Brad Haddin. But Chris Woakes & James Anderson bowled tightly at the death & applied plenty of pressure, in the end Australia got their with one ball remaining. England & India will now fight at out for that remaining spot in the final at Waca. 

Stats:

• Ian Bell has now scored 5136 runs in One Day Internationals, the most for any English batsman. Becoming only the second England player to achieve this milestone after Paul Collingwood who has scored 5092 runs in One Day Internationals
• Ian Bell has 4 One Day International hundreds, out of 70 batsmen who have scored 5K-plus runs in One Day Internationals, only six have made fewer hundreds than him
• Steven Smith has now become the only player in the history of Cricket to have scored a century on captaincy debut in both One Day Internationals & Tests. Smith is the seventh player to do this in One Day Internationals
• Ian Bell scored 141 runs today, his highest score in One Day Internationals & the eighth-highest by any English Batsman. His previous highest score was 126(He had achieved that twice)
• After 48 innings, England's openers posted a 100-plus partnership. Ian Bell & Moeen Ali shared a 113-run opening partnership in this game
• Since 2001 England scored their third-highest score of 69 in the first 10 overs of an One Day International against Australia
• 4 Australian players played this One Day International who are not part of the World Cup squad(Shaun Marsh - Cameron White - Moises Henriques - Gurinder Sandhu)
• James Anderson has now played 304 International matches, more than any other English player. He has played 19 Twenty-Twenty Internationals, 99 Tests & 186 One Day Internationals
• Steven Smith has become second youngest player to captain Australia in One Day Internationals - 25 years and 235 days
• At Hobart it's the third instance in 32 One Day Internationals when a team posted 300-plus runs batting first
• Hobart is only venue where a team successfully chased down 300-plus runs twice

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