Saturday, February 14, 2015

Day 1 - Australia vs England

Australia cruise to opening day game win

Finch scored a ton to take Australia to 342 in the second gamer on the opening day. England surrendered tamely to fold up at 231. Taylor was the only batsman providing resistance and stayed not out at 98 missing his century by just 2 runs when he ran out of partners. Earlier in the game Australia had a scare after losing three wickets on 57 runs but Finch provided the support and took the Australia score to 216 before getting run out. Baily also contributed to this partnership ans scored 55. England started losing wickets from very beginning and were soon 92 for loss of 6 wickets before Taylor provided some resistance along with Woakes. They both took the score to 184 before Woakes fell for 37. England lost quick wickets after that to fold up at 231 losing by 111 runs.

Watch Australia vs England Match Highlights here



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