Australia tour of England 2020 – England Won T20 Series by 2-1 after losing the third and final game of the series against Australia by 5 wickets last night at Southampton. Now I will share the details of each T20 match in my way.
1st T20
Game Date: 4th Sept 2020
Details: Australia won the toss and elected to field first in the 1st T20 against England at Southampton. England scored 162/7 in their 20 overs. Dawid Malan scored 66 of 43 and Jos Buttler 44 of 29 balls while Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richardson picks 2 wickets for Australia.
At one time Australia needed 35 runs of 36 balls with 9 wickets in hand still they were unable to chase the target and scored 160/6 in their 20 overs and lose the game by 2 runs. David Warner scored 58 of 47 and Aaron Finch 46 of 32 balls for England Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid picks 2 wickets
ENG: 162/7 in 20 overs
AUS: 160/6 in 20 overs
Result: England won by 2 runs
Man of the Match: Dawid Malan
Stats
– This is 50th T20 game as captain for Eoin Morgan who is now 3rd in the list after Mahendra Singh Dhoni (72) and William Porterfield (56) who has played most matches played as Captain in T20I.
– Dawid Malan scored his 8th T20 half century for England which is 3rd highest after Alex Hales (9) and Eoin Morgan (14).
– Aaron Finch completed 2000 runs 62 T20 innings which is 2nd fewest after Virat Kohli (56) innings.
– David Warner scored his 19th T20 half-century which is 3rd most in this format after Virat Kohli (24) and Rohit Sharma (25).
– 162 is 2nd lowest total defended by England after 153 against India.
– 2 runs margin is defeat is fewest run margin for Australia in T20’s while 2 runs margin is 2nd best victory for England in terms of runs.
2nd T20
Game Date: 6th September 2020
Details: Australia won the toss in the 2nd T20 and elected to bat first against England. Both team remains unchanged for the game.
Australia scored 157/7 in their 20 overs after batting first. Aaron Finch scored 40 of 33 and Marcus Stoinis scored 35 of 26 balls. From England Chris Jordan picks 2 for 40 in his 4 overs quota.
England successfully chased by scoring 158/4 in 18.5 overs and won the game by 6 wickets. Jos Buttler scored 77* of 54 balls and David Malan scored 42 of 32 balls. Ashton Agar picks 2 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs.
AUS: 157/7 in 20 overs
ENG: 158/4 in 18.5 overs
Result: England won by 6 wickets
Man of the Match: Jos Buttler
Stats
– England are one more win away from becoming the new T20I number one team.
– 77* is highest T20 score of Jos Buttler.
3rd T20
Game Date: 8th September 2020
Details: Australia won the toss and elected to bowl first in 3rd and final T20 against England. They made 3 changes in their team and included Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh and Josh Hazlewood
England made 2 changes in their side and included Tom Banton and Debutant Mark Wood. Moeen Ali lead the national team for the first time in the absence of Eoin Morgain who didn’t play the game due to hand injury.
England scored 145/6 in their 20 overs after batting first. Jonny Bairstow scored 55 of 44 balls and Joe Denly scored 29* of 19 balls. From Australia Adam Zampa picks 2 for 34 in his 4 overs quota.
Australia successfully chased by scoring 146/5 in 19.3 overs and won the game by 5 wickets but lost the series to England 2-1. Mitchell Marsh scored 39* of 36 balls and Aaron Finch scored 39 of 26 balls. Adil Rashidpicks 3 wickets for 21 runs in his 4 overs quota.
ENG: 145/6 in 20 overs
AUS: 146/5 in 19.3 overs
Result: Australia won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match: Mitchell Marsh
Man of the Series: Jos Buttler
Series Result: England won 2-1
Stats
– With this win Australia retain their No.1 position in T20.
– Dawid Malan become no.1 player in T20 in the latest ICC ranking by surpassing Babar Azam.
That’s all from this T20’s series and hope you all will like this information. For more updates visit my page on Facebook Durgesh Tiwary’s View and website Cricket Movie Website