Australia Beat England in 5th ODI of series, 2013

Australia was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in England in 2013. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 1 and 3. The 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sophia Gardens, Cardiff , England on 15th Sep 2013. Australia holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 5th ONE DAY international match: Shane Watson, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, George Bailey (c), Aaron Finch, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Josh Hazlewood, Glenn Maxwell, James Faulkner, M Clarke

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th ONE DAY international Match: Stuart Broad (c), Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Jos Buttler (wk),Michael Lumb, Kevin P, Jade Dernbach, Danny Briggs, Alex Hales, Joe Root

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 298 runs in 49.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of S Watson who made 143 runs in 107 balls with 12 4’s and 6 six at the strike rate of 134 runs in 100 balls and M Clarke who made 75 runs in 76 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 99 runs in 100 balls.

England was needed to score 299 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

England batted well but was unable to chase the target of 299 runs and was only able to make 249 runs in 48 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 49 runs with top contributions from Ravi B who made 62 runs in 66 balls with 5 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 49 runs and series stands at 3-2 in favor of Australia with 2 more games to play.

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