Australia tour of England 2020, Third ODI, England vs Australia - Australia won by three wickets
Wednesday, September 16, 2020, Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester
Australia comfortably defeated England by a margin of 3 wickets in this do-or-die final ODI game of the series. The record-breaking partnership between Maxwell and Carey paved the way for Australia for a comfortable victory in this game and take the series 2-1. Here are some of the stats from this match.
3 - England captain Eoin Morgan won all the three tosses in this three-match ODI series. Australia won the first and final ODIs of the series while England won the second ODI. Meanwhile, Australian captain Aaron Finch won all the tosses in the three-match T20I series on this tour!
4 - All-rounder Glenn Maxwell became the fourth player from Australia to hit a century playing at No. 7 position. James Faulkner (116 vs India in 2013), Matthew Wade (unbeaten 100* vs Pakistan in 2017) and Marcus Stoinis (unbeaten 146* vs New Zealand in 2017) were the other three Australian players to make this feat prior to Maxwell.
Maxwell, Carey posing with trophy after the series victory. Image credits: Daily Cricket
12 - Australian opener David Warner's batting average in the three-match ODI series. He scored just 36 runs in the three ODIs which is also the least for him in a three-match bilateral series!
305 - The target which Australia have successfully chased down in this match to seal the series victory by 2-1. This is also the first 300+ target chased at this ground in this format of the game. England's run chase of 286/4 in the year 1986 was the previous highest successfully chased down total at this venue.
212 - The partnership shared between Alex Carey (106 off 114) and Glenn Maxwell (108 off 90) for the sixth wicket in this game. This is Australia's highest sixth wicket stand in this format and third highest overall. The 267-run stand between Grant Elliott and Luke Ronchi in 2015 and the 218-run stand between Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Mahela Jayawardene in an Asia XI were at the top of this list.
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