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Venue- Trent Bridge, Nottingham [June 19, 2018].
In the summer of 2018, the Australian cricket team toured England to play 5 ODIs and 1 T20 International. The hosts won the first two ODIs comfortably, and the action now shifted to Nottinghamshire. In a must-win game Australian Captain Tim Paine won the toss and elected to field first. The same was done because it was quite difficult to comprehend what could be a winning total on this batting paradise. As a result, they decided to go for the chase. However, what followed next was something truly unbelievable. The English batsmen came out all guns blazing upon the Aussie attack. They went for a kill from the very first ball as openers Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow shared a first-wicket partnership of 159 runs in just 19 overs.
Jason Roy scored a quickfire 82 off just 61 deliveries. His innings comprised 7 boundaries and 4 massive sixes. However, the attack was not one-sided. Even Bairstow was hitting with the same flair as Roy. The duo of Bairstow and Roy literally made a mess of the Aussie bowling line-up as every bowler went for runs. To be honest, it was quite unfortunate that Roy got run out and thus missed a well-deserved hundred. However, Bairstow and Alex Hales continued from where Roy left. Both of them scored massive hundreds against the arch-rivals as England ended up posting 481 in their 50 overs. Bairstow scored 139 off 92 deliveries, whereas Alex Hales scored 147 off 92 deliveries. Apart from them, Captain Morgan also scored a brilliant 67 off just 30 deliveries. It was literally raining boundaries that day in Nottingham. The visitors looked helpless in front of the hosts.
Chasing 482 was never going to be an easy task for the Aussies, as maintaining a run rate of 9.6 for the entire 50 overs is close to impossible. Even though they started off pretty well, they crumbled in between as English continued picking up wickets at regular intervals. At last, the Visitors were bowled out for just 239 runs in 37 overs. The English won the game by a massive 242 runs and took a 3-0 lead in the 5-match series.
It was an act of complete domination on the part of Hosts. This was well and truly explosive cricket.
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