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Venue- Trent Bridge, Nottingham [June 19, 2018].
In the Summer of 2018, 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 that 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 of just 61 deliveries. His innings comprised of 7 boundaries and 4 massive sixes. However, the attack was not one-sided. Even Bairstow was hitting with same flare 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 runout 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 of 92 deliveries, whereas Alex Hales scored 147 of 92 deliveries. Apart from them Captain Morgan too scored a brilliant 67 of 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 entire 50 overs is close to impossible. Even though they started of pretty well but crumbled in between as English continued picking up wickets in regular intervals. At last, the Visitors were bowled out for just 239 runs in 37 overs. The English won the game by 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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