Australia vs England, 3rd T20I at Sydney, , Feb 02 2014 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
3rd T20I (N), Sydney, February 02, 2014, England tour of Australia
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(17.2/20 ov, T:196) 111

Australia won by 84 runs

Player Of The Match
49* (20)
george-bailey
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Right, at long last this series is over and may Australia and England not play each other for a very long time! We've had enough fixtures to last a lifetime in this past eight months. But both teams are in action again pretty soon with Australia travelling to South Africa for a mouthwatering Test series and England back in action at the end of the month in the Caribbean with some one-day cricket ahead of the World T20. But we can now put this Ashes tour to bed, it's been long and quite often arduous, hope you've enjoyed it, we've been glad to have you along for the journey. From Monty and I, bye for now and speak soon...



Presentation time and once again Mark Taylor takes over. Stuart Broad has this to say: "It's been good fun throughout the tour, we've been hugely disappointing, not at the races for three months but you have to give credit to Australia. We've got a two-week break at home and then go to the Caribbean but we know we're a decent T20 side. We can now get together as a group for a decent period to work on specific things, improve and learn from this week. We've got a dangerous side. We've got to go to Bangladesh with confidence and hopefully we can get some momentum in the Caribbean."



Man of the Match goes to George Bailey for his fabulous striking at the end of the innings that took the game away from England. "We put in our best performance tonight. Credit to the guys. I've had a few lucky nights but we've played good cricket. It will be difficult to pick a side now for the Caribbean but it's a nice problem to have."



Today, England were doing quite well with a run of wickets but not for the first time the decent position was whipped from them. George Bailey did the damage in a final over spanking of Jade Dernbach and England were never going to chase 196 and never got in the game second innings.



All over, it had been all over for a long time really, Australia win by 84 runs which is a colossal margin in a T20. It wraps up a 3-0 victory in this series and completes a 12-1 annihilation for England on this trip which has been as miserable as a grey afternoon in Barnsley. Oh goodness have England been pathetic but at least it's all over for them now. Australia's giggling can continue because they have been totally dominant throughout the entire tour and simply been miles better.

17.2
1W
Starc to Jordan, 1 run, OUT

short outside off, pulled into midwicket, Dernbach wants to come back for two, whoopsie! It's never on and he's run out by a street trying to scramble back to the striker's end and that's a calamitous end to a truly horrendous tour for England

Jade Dernbach run out (Christian/†Wade) 1 (2b 0x4 0x6 6m) SR: 50
17.1
Starc to Jordan, no run

full at the stumps, aims leg side and gets a thick edge into his pad

Chris: "All in all which team do we reckon has had the best of this tour?" 1 Australia, 2 Umpires, 3 Groundstaff, 4 Baggage handlers, 5 Hotel bell-boys, 6 Mark Nicholas, 7 Kylie Clarke. Starc now...

end of over 176 runs • 1 wicket
ENG: 110/9CRR: 6.47 RRR: 28.66
Chris Jordan9 (10b 2x4)
Jade Dernbach1 (2b)
James Muirhead 2-0-13-2
Nathan Coulter-Nile 4-0-21-2
16.6
1
Muirhead to Jordan, 1 run

swung from off stump, it whirls off a thick outside edge towards deep point

16.5
Muirhead to Jordan, no run

turn away from off stump, swung at, hit on the toe into the covers

16.4
4
Muirhead to Jordan, FOUR runs

floated up outside off, driven nicely on the up and gets it wide of mid-off, well timed

16.3
1
Muirhead to Dernbach, 1 run

full toss outside off, smashed almost to mid-on, it just doesn't carry

16.2
Muirhead to Dernbach, no run

back to cut or pull or smash it anywhere, he missed

16.1
W
Muirhead to Broad, OUT

length ball, Broad goes back to try and pull, misses and loses middle stump some sharp turn on that, Broad beaten all ends up and has to go. Nicely bowled

Stuart Broad b Muirhead 2 (4b 0x4 0x6 7m) SR: 50
end of over 165 runs
ENG: 104/8CRR: 6.50 RRR: 23.00
Chris Jordan4 (7b 1x4)
Stuart Broad2 (3b)
Nathan Coulter-Nile 4-0-21-2
James Muirhead 1-0-7-1
15.6
Coulter-Nile to Jordan, no run

swing and a miss at a full ball again, it grazes leg stump again

15.5
4
Coulter-Nile to Jordan, FOUR runs

short and gets a bat on this, manages to get it backward of square and finds the gap

15.4
Coulter-Nile to Jordan, no run

full and swung, missed completely, it goes past leg stump

15.3
Coulter-Nile to Jordan, no run

full angled in, Jordan gets struck on the pad squared up

15.2
Coulter-Nile to Jordan, no run

bumper, well-directed, Jordan misses with a hook

15.1
1
Coulter-Nile to Broad, 1 run

back of a length, angled to backward point and they get a sharp single

Rohail: "Can't win series outside their home. Big 3 or big shame?"

end of over 157 runs • 1 wicket
ENG: 99/8CRR: 6.60 RRR: 19.40
Chris Jordan0 (2b)
Stuart Broad1 (2b)
James Muirhead 1-0-7-1
Nathan Coulter-Nile 3-0-16-2
14.6
Muirhead to Jordan, no run

floated up on off stump, driven off a thick outside edge to backward point

14.5
1
Muirhead to Broad, 1 run

shorter, flicked around the corner to deep-backward square who's very fine

14.4
Muirhead to Broad, no run

tries to paddle sweep from outside off and misses

14.3
W
Muirhead to Bresnan, OUT

swing outside off, misses courtesy of the turn, Wade has the bails off and there's a strong appeal for a stumping and Wade was sharp to remove the bails as Bresnan dragged his bag foot a good two inches out of his ground and fails to get back in time

Tim Bresnan st †Wade b Muirhead 14 (7b 1x4 1x6 9m) SR: 200
14.2
6
Muirhead to Bresnan, SIX runs

nice stride down the wicket and hammered down the ground, strong shot

14.1
Muirhead to Bresnan, no run

tossed up, Bresnan ends up trying to late cut off the stumps and almost misses, gets a bottom edge to slip on the bounce

James Muirhead comes on with a great time to bowl leggers...

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