England vs Australia

AUS vs ENG live score: Follow Over-by-over text commentary, score and updates from the first T20I match between Australia and England.

Standby players: Liam Dawson, Richard Gleeson, Tymal Mills. October 12: Second T20I, Canberra, 1.10 PM IST England comes into this match on the back of a dominant 4-3 T20I series win over Pakistan.

Sam Curran continues, messing up the batsmen's rhythm with changes of pace and length.

Buttler chisels it out and the captain ends the first over with a fourth four, climbing into the width to smash four off extra-cover. Green racks up a couple of dot balls to start the over as Hales plays and misses but then hangs a short one outside off and Hales cuts it over point for four. With fine leg up he scoops for four so fine leg goes back and next ball Buttler scoops it over to him for six. Consequently Buttler is through it to soon and it spoons off the face to the keeper's right. Wade took the ball in front of the stumps and then tried to roll it at the timbers with a back-hand, no look shy. Warner pulls for a single and Green plays tip and run to square leg to filch the strike. Hales hopes about his crease, jumping to leg and back, and then lofts a drive for four over mid-off. The Yorkshireman loses his footing when tucking a single off his hip, and also drops his bat. Topley takes the pace off after a leg-bye is scrambled into the offside and Warner cuffs it for a single. Topley changes ends and beats Marsh outside off but when he drops short Marsh smacks it off the back foot over cover with a cross-bat thwack. Warner jabs out the yorker for a single off the first ball. Stoinis slashes four over third man when the left-armer slants one across him then flaps one off his ribs for a single.

England openers Alex Hales and captain Jos Buttler smashed a new-look Australian attack in a brutal display of power hitting as they helped England to ...

After 17 overs, Australia were 173-6, needing 36 runs off the last three overs and despite some late hitting from Matthew Wade (21), the target proved too much. Buttler, back in the side after a two-month injury lay-off, showed no signs of rust as he and Hales smashed 50 off the first five overs and brought up the 100 in just the ninth over. But some inspired fast bowling in the latter stages from Mark Wood (3-34) and Sam Curran (2-35) saw England home as Australia finished their 20 overs eight runs short.

England beat Australia by eight runs in the first T20I, with openers Jos Buttler and Alex Hales starring with the bat for the visitors.

The pair combined for a useful 33 together, despite Stokes struggling to find any rhythm as one might expect from a man who had a decent break after the English summer. I was definitely nervous before the game today, but I’m pleased I managed to get off to a good start." Before Buttler departed, he and Hales had put on a T20 batting masterclass to smash 132 from just 68 balls for the first wicket. Buttler had a great game, using his bowlers to good effect after he had been brilliant with the bat as part of a 208 run total. And he delivered on that promise with the fourth highest score of his career so far, sprinkled with 12 fours and three sixes of various quality. It meant any controversy over Wade's obstruction of [Mark Wood's](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/mark-wood) attempt to take a caught and bowled earlier by sticking out his arm and getting in his way was negated.

PERTH, Australia (AP) — England produced some impressive late bowling to beat Australia by eight runs Sunday in the first of the teams' three warmup matches ...

“It was a great game of cricket and we are delighted to get over the line,” said Buttler. We needed to take wickets and that’s what we did.” “Against great players like Jos Buttler and Alex Hales, sometimes there isn’t much you could do,” Finch said. “I was looking at the ball the whole time so I wasn’t sure what happened,” Buttler said. “It was a really tough call — we spent a lot of time debating it and thinking about it, and it was only really Alex’s record in Australia that got him ahead. He’s settled back in really well and he played fantastically well here.

Australia were on track while David Warner and Marcus Stoinis were together, while there was nearly a controversial finish.

Pressure had built on Stoinis after a lean period and the emergence of Green but he was in powerful form with a trio of sixes as Australia suddenly were in the box seat. Finch was listed to return as opener, but contentiously Green, who is not in Australia's World Cup squad, remained at the top. An accurate Ellis emerged relatively unscathed earlier in the innings before bowling a superb 19th over to claim Curran and Moeen Ali. Captain Aaron Finch had hoped to take advantage of the overcast conditions and smattering of grass, but his inexperienced attack mostly copped a flogging. Hales started slowly, by comparison, before finding his range as the pair smashed 58 runs in the powerplay. The final two games of the series will be played in Canberra starting on Wednesday.