Go Aussie! 

Finch was lucky off Woakes! 

Outside edge over slips for 4. 

Nice pull for 4 Warner off Archer. 

0/31 off 7 overs. 

Australia have been a bit lucky. 

Archer bowls with a fair bit of pace with little effort. He has a nice high action, bowling at mid 140s with minimal effort. 

Bit surprising to see us 0-70 off 13 plus overs, but I’ll take it. 

Looking like a 350 plus total on the cards now 30 overs are up

Could be.

It looks unlikely now at 43 overs for 233. 

England have bowled well since the 30 over mark. 

Finch out for 100. 

Good knock!

Maxwell coming in can hit a ball.

Absolutely. 

He just hit a 6 and a 4 off Archer in successive balls. 

Being 3-190 at 35th over is reasonable. 

Shot Smith.

Nice straight drive for 4. 

Maxwell didn’t last long -12 off 8 balls. 

shame. On this pitch he could have blasted england out of the game

Short pitched deliveries have looked tricky late in the innings

We need 4 wickets off the first 35 to defend this imo

Apart from Devon Malcolm, and a few balls from Flintoff and Harmison, Mark Wood has bowled about as fast as I've seen any English bowler bowl against Australia in these last few overs.

He has hit 153 kph.

Nice off drive from Stoinis for 4. 

Pretty full crowd at Lords. 

Anyone know how many are in attendance? 

Blast. Cummins is out. 

Is 285 after 50 overs enough for Australia? 

hard to say how much is in this pitch. Thought we could have gotten 15 more in the last 10 and maybe 10 more in 30-40

hopefully we have enough

also have to get butler early

most terams you take 4 by the 35th and you have won. Against England you need to really stay focused even after that

Thrilled thrilled THRILLED we are opening with the dorf rather than cummins

Old ball Cummins means 10 overs of pressure when no other bowler can achieve pressure and we can replace his brilliance with the new ball

depending on what our spinner dishes up we have 25 overs over genuine wicket taking threat here

They’ve listened to you, Grazor! 

Starc shares the new  ball , with Cummins bowling with an older ball. 

wicket 2nd ball from the dorf!

root is key on a pitch like this

Bowled Starc for very few with an inswinger! 

Behrendorf got one to swing in to take a wicket. 

Never really rated him at Bellerive! 

You just start watching as we go to bed, Grazor. 

2 wickets in the 1st 10!

1 more and its cat amongst the pigeons with cummins to come in!

England 2-15. 

Morgan nearly dismissed with a Starc delivery that beat the outside edge. 

we would love 1 more before the 10th

Great catch to dismiss Mirgan off a Starc. 

England in trouble at 3-26. 

3 down already though, this pair has to bat until the 35th

its very tricky situation

Australia just need 2 more. Focus boys!

Starting with the dorf completely changes the balance of the team

England can now look and think: Well there are still 10 pat cummins overs to come. He's gonna be tricky. Then there are 10 lyon overs to come. He won't take 6 wickets but will be tricky to score off (hopefully)

cummins on too early for mine

first 10 should be dorf and starc

As Nass Bignose just said on comms the Aussie quicks are pitching it in the slot, England missed a trick by bowling too short

yep beautiful full swinging bowling so far 

the short ball looked effective late in the innings so hopefully we adjust our length to the situation

Cummins strayed onto leg a few times in his first over- which is unusual. 

the other question is can 2 left hand bowlers create a hint of rough for lyon?

Hope so. 

for all of stoinis' batting woes he has bowled beautifully this world cup 6/171 so far. Maxwell has been excellent too. That will help

gee imagine if we got that 15-25 extra runs...

anyway we now have 3-43 off 11 and 15 overs of starc and cummins left. Australia will love this position

gee we would love another one here. Expose Butler early and get him in 2 minds

big moment in the game lyon comes on

lets see what he can offer

if lyon can at the very least keep it tight England will find it very difficult

uneven bounce by the looks of it

some decent purchase off the pitch

leading edge
sooo unlucky

out! Butler in early


Can we get Butler in two minds here

thats what is tricky on this pitch

bad lengths get wickets. In the slot early and short later on. Wicket with the short ball

we are a completely different team with dorf opening


Question mark still over who our number 1 spinner is. I think if cummins bowls the old ball zampa is better. But can't complain about lyon

australia only waste 13 overs with this bowling attack

the inevitable 10 part time overs (which have actually been ok thus far) and 3 old ball dorff overs

finch bowling a lot of left armers from this end to help lyon/maxwell

good tactics

Australia know they need 1 just more 

cummins won't mind agression

he averages 10 in the death this year

we'll try and sneak in some stoinis and maxwell overs here so it should get easier for England

stoinis bowls well at the death so we only have to have 7-8 weak overs in the middle here

despite England's vaunted tail it so far hasn't wagged

1 more here with so many starc/cummins/lyon overs to come...

australia review
not out surely

terrible review

and now a missed run-out!

Stokes is limping, he’s the one likely to get run out here

stoinis and maxwell not being hopeless with the ball has made a huge difference

and now with a 3rd mainline bowler doing his job....

just need to figure out who our best spinner is

stoinis bowling well as the old ball starts to get stuck in the pitch

do we give him a couple more?

leading edge goes over lyons head for 4

quick outfield!

well the outfield is quicker than finch :D

lyons figures don't show it but he is bowling pretty tight here

Why is Lyon only making his 1st start here?

Zampa has been in good form this year taking crucial wickets

lyon's economy is incredible but averages 40

I would be tempted to get a couple of maxwell overs in here

bad ball by stoinis but still only going at 5po and nearly a couple of wickets off his overs.

Our 5th bowler has been pretty good this world cup

thus far its been the 3rd and 4th that have been a challenge

good 50 from stokes
he has been a shining light for england this world cup

stoinis takes butler!!

Huge performance with the ball this world cup from Stoinis!

great maxwell over

our 5th bowler has been a feature this world cup when our 3rd-4th have struggled

while stokes is still here England a chance

get our weaker bowlers out of the way now

stoinis can bowl 2-3 at the death so only need a couple more

a couple of sixes off maxwell here. Not from bad balls either really

if he can survive without going for too many we have bowled 8 overs from our 5th bowler which is enough

our fifth bowler currently 1-40 off 8 so thats excellent

can finish with cummins/lyon/starc/dorff

maxwell's punishment shows how good lyon's been

England have played spin very well. Pace on the other hand...

our economical cummins and lyon have bowled 12 overs for 44

no wickets yet but very difficult to win when you have 2 bowlers pitching in like that!

hope we don't regret giving away 15 odd with the blade here

well on top mind you

what australia would do to swap stoinis for stokes...

stokes gets starc-inated

hard to win from here you would think!

England forced to for the most part see off Cummins so his figures won't flatter him but its been a wonderful balanced team performance from the bowlers thus far

hope lyon/cummins get a reward for their control

this is the sort of position New Zealand would win from

so would Australia with Bevan/Symonds/Waugh and a few others

just as I say that cummins bowls a wide haha

cricket gods trolling cummins here

Stoinis has 1/29 off 7 compared to cummins 0/40 off 7 :D

ali should be some fireworks

hopefully he doens't get too many

every player has performed their role in this team

ideally I'd love maxwell averaging 60 at a strike rate of 200 like he did last world cup but he's going at just over 30 at a strike rate of 200 which is his job. Carey has been similar at the death as well which has been a real delight

Only 2 things need to improve for us to be firing on all cylinders

Stoinis' batting and Carey's keeping. 

Stoinis doesn't have to be a maxwell but if he can consistently get 30 odd off 25 odd that would take the team to another level

as a former bowler I'm thrilled to see england's approach fail and hopefully fail them out of the tournament

lesson learnt: value your bowlers and pick your best 4!

Lesson learnt: should have hit the sack earlier :-(

Half of England’s team deserve the sack

English fan?

They could still win if they make the semi's

its only a 2 game knockout which helps a crash or burn team like england

Aye, the clue is in the name.

India will be tough on their home ground in Birmingham, I guess the Kiwis might not be that ar sed in the last game having secured qualification...
Not holding my breath though.

Finchy to get back in the Test squad with the Ashes coming up?

Finch  struggled with slips slips in Test cricket. 

Good win to Australia!

England fought back quite well after being 3-25.

to be fair we bowled out our lesser bowlers as soon as we had them in trouble. It may have made the victory margin smaller but also made the victory more assured!

Gday all,
jaszyjim - We won.
No summary as I just spent an hour writing it, when I went to post it
internet died and lost same.

what a good win and even better on their home turf :)
I watched the start of our 2nd innings, wow our bowling was in the zone.
Loved Behrendorff's inswinger taking Vince ! followed by Starc's LB of Root !
What a platform that set.

Smacked those Poms. 

Master stroke picking the two left armers. Have always rated Behrendorff.

Grazor have not watched a lot of this WC.. what is wrong with Carey's keeping?

missed stumpings, dropped catches, savable byes

its been a rare blemish on the team along with Stoinis' batting

Watched that too, but England fought back.