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England vs Australia: Australia made a great start to the 3-match T20I series thanks to the stormy innings of Australia’s star opener Travis Head. Australia defeated England by 28 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the series. The hero of Australia’s victory was Travis Head who scored 59 runs in just 23 balls with the help of 8 fours and 4 sixes.
Head took the Australian bowlers to task during his fiery innings but the star bowler Sam Curran suffered the most. Head hit 30 runs in one over of Curran by raining fours and sixes. Head hit 3 consecutive sixes in this over. In this way, Australia’s team, batting first, was all out at 179 runs in 19.3 overs. In response, the host England team was all out at 151 runs in 19.2 overs. Liam Livingstone scored the highest 37 runs for England. Sean Abbott took the maximum 3 wickets for Australia. Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood took 2 wickets each.
Head scored 30 runs in Sam Curran’s over
Opener Travis Head gave Australia a great start and scored his half-century in just 19 balls. The result was that the visiting Kangaroo team scored 86 runs in the powerplay. During this, in the fifth over, Head scored 30 runs in the over of England bowler Sam Curran. He hit fours on the first and second ball and then spoiled Curran’s line and length by hitting sixes on 3 consecutive balls. After this, Head also ended the over with a four. On the last ball of the powerplay, Saqib Mahmood sent Head to the pavilion. After this, Australia could not maintain the pace of runs and the entire team was all out for 179 runs.
Australian bowlers did wonders
In response to Australia’s score, England had a very bad start and the team lost the wickets of Will Jacks, Jordan Cox and Phil Salt within 46 runs in the powerplay. Liam Livingstone tried to hold on in the middle overs but it was not enough. After this, Adam Jampa and Sean Abbott did the remaining work and stopped England at 151 runs. Travis Head was awarded the Player of the Match award for his brilliant batting.
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