edged behind and Australia have won! Oh, what a fightback from Australia, it finishes with Tredwell backing off a touch and swinging hard outside off and a thick edge has been taken by Matthew Wade.
Australia vs England, 5th ODI at Adelaide, Jan 26 2014 - Match Result
Shane Watson has done the job and with that wicket Australia have moved back up to No.1 on the ICC rankings with a 4-1 series win. England will wonder how they managed to lose that match. When the batting powerplay began with 15 overs left, England needed 70 runs only with seven wickets in hand. But those wickets tumbled, and losing the established Morgan and Root within three overs was especially costly. Clint McKay and James Faulkner did a really good job at the end there before Watson put the icing on the cake. There was a stroke of luck with the stumping of Bopara, but by then the pressure was already well on England.
"It was tough to watch at the end but the boys stuck at it, and it's great to have a win on Australia Day," the coach Darren Lehmann says. "The wicket was a bit slow but the boys bowled nice and straight and fielded really well."
The Man of the Match is James Faulkner for his two wickets and 27 runs. "It was an incredible game of cricket. For that to happen on Australia day was unbelievable," Faulkner says.
The Player of the Series is Aaron Finch, who made two centuries. "It was nice to start the series off really well with the bat and contribute," Finch says. "It gives you a lot of confidence and allows you to play with some freedom."
Alastair Cook: "We should have got over the line there... some poor shots were played under pressure. Australia have had a great summer against us and ... on the back end of three months of that it probably showed for us."
Michael Clarke: "A magnificent performance by the boys with the ball especially, I thought our batting was disappointing today. For me it was about finding a way to take 10 wickets and bowl England out ... to be able to find different ways to take wickets, the bowlers on both sides deserve a lot of credit."
Clarke says he has two days off now before the Test squad flies to South Africa on Wednesday. New challenges ahead for those guys. For now, Michael Clarke is being presented with the series trophy. So the Tests and ODIs combined didn't quite end in the 10-0 that looked possible, but 9-1 is still a very comprehensive effort from Australia. Some of the England players can now fly home, which will be a great relief. Others stay on for the three Twenty20s. Join us for the first of those from Hobart on Wednesday. Until then, from Brydon Coverdale, Andrew McGlashan and Alagappan Muthu, goodbye for now.
good ball on the stumps and Jordan swings hard to leg, they scamper through for one run to midwicket as Clarke throws and can't hit the stumps at the non-striker's end!
Tredwell tries to lift this over midwicket but can't connect, but they scramble through for a leg bye
swing and a miss! Tredwell gave himself a bit of room and tried to crunch it through off but couldn't make contact
What a finish we have here - Shane Watson is being asked to bowl this last over. One wicket will win it for Australia. Eight runs will win it for England. Or could we be in for a tie? Australia will go back to No.1 on the ODI rankings if they can pull off this victory. Watson is around the wicket to the left-hander Tredwell.
all Jordan can do is get bat on ball here and works it to short midwicket
on the pads of Tredwell, who gets a leg bye away
What an extraordinary dismissal that was, because Wade didn't glove the ball cleanly. It has simply rebounded off him and landed on top of the bails with Bopara's foot just off the ground at the wrong time! Nine runs needed now with one wicket in hand. Can Tredwell do something special here?
beaten outside off! Bopara has again just tried to tickle it away and doesn't get bat on ball. In fact there's a stumping appeal. Has Bopara lifted his foot? Oh this is close. Wade hasn't whipped the bails off, the ball has just ricocheted off him down onto the top of the bails. The third umpire is called on and this is very close. A few different replays are needed here but Bopara did lift his back foot and it was in the air when the bail was dislodged! That's out!
clipped uppishly through short midwicket, just wide of the man
just outside off from McKay and Bopara does what he's been doing all through his innings, steers it off the face down to third man - and in fact it's deflected off Wade's pad, which might have saved any more runs
A delay now as Wade gets the helmet and comes up to the stumps.
driven away to point and they get through for a quick single to get Bopara back on strike
So, this is it. Twelve balls remaining, twelve runs needed. It will be Clint McKay to bowl this 49th over, which means that, if the match gets there, you'd think Shane Watson is the likely candidate to bowl the 50th.
clipped away off his pads out to deep square leg and there is a fumble out there from the fielder but the batsmen weren't prepared to run the second - which means Jordan has the strike
Jordan watchfully defends his first ball
punched off the back foot down to long-on for a single
again Bopara can only manage to pick out midwicket - he just can't find the gaps here
clipped away to midwicket and Bopara can't find the gap
driven straight back to Faulkner for no run
Three overs left. Two wickets in hand. Fourteen runs needed for England to win. With Bopara out there England are certainly still favourites. But another wicket would make it very interesting indeed.
but McKay strikes back! This match just keeps swinging from one way to another! Broad has backed off just a quarter of a step and sort of reached at a straight one, and McKay gets it through to clip the top of middle stump
tickled away off a thickish inside edge for a couple through square leg
Broad finds the boundary! Big shot this, he's driven it through cover and found the gap - really good placement and that gives England a little breathing space once again
another single steered to third man
Adelaide Oval | |
Toss | Australia, elected to bat first |
Series | |
Season | 2013/14 |
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Series result | Australia won the 5-match series 4-1 |
Match number | ODI no. 3463 |
Hours of play (local time) | 13.50 start, First Session 13.50-17.20, Interval 17.20-18.05, Second Session 18.05-21.35 |
Match days | 26 January 2014 - daynight (50-over match) |
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