England beat Australia in 1st ODI match 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 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Headingley, Leeds, England on 6th 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 bowl first; this is how Australia team and 11 was looking like in this 1st 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, Fawad Ahmed

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Stuart Broad (c), Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Jos Buttler (wk),Michael Lumb, Steven Finn, Jade Dernbach, Danny Briggs, Alex Hales, Joe Root

England batted well and was able to post total of 250 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of A Hales who made 80 runs in 50 balls with 11 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 160 runs in 100 balls and M Lumb who made 40 runs in 40 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 251 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted well but was unable to chase the target of 251 runs and was able to make only 221 runs in 48.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 29 runs with top contributions from D Warner who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 29 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of England with 6 more games to play.

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