{"id":840,"date":"2022-11-19T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T12:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/australia-seal-series-as-starc-and-zampa-stall-england-run-chase-in-second-odi\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T12:26:59","slug":"australia-seal-series-as-starc-and-zampa-stall-england-run-chase-in-second-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/australia-seal-series-as-starc-and-zampa-stall-england-run-chase-in-second-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia seal series as Starc and Zampa stall England run chase in second ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mitchell Starc knocked off the top and tail either side of Adam Zampa twirling through the middle, bowling out England 72 runs short of Australia\u2019s 280 for eight at the Sydney Cricket<\/a> Ground on Saturday night, as the hosts took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the one-day international series.<\/p>\n

James Vince and Sam Billings led a recovery from 34 for three and eventually got back in the hunt with an excellent partnership worth 122, needing a further 124 at less than a run a ball. But when Vince fell for 60 and Billings for 71, the chase fell away in a sequence of seven for 52.<\/p>\n

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It was another good day for bowlers after a T20 World Cup that kept a competitive balance between bat and ball. The SCG surface offered plenty and with the regular captains, Jos Buttler and Pat Cummins, rested, the teams were led by the England all-rounder Moeen Ali and the Australia quick Josh Hazlewood.<\/p>\n

It was Starc, though, who enjoyed his outing most of all. During the recent T20 World Cup, Starc was moved from his long-held role opening the bowling, with Australia\u2019s management talking him up as a middle-overs enforcer before dropping him for a match against Afghanistan that Australia needed to win by a mile.<\/p>\n

With the new ball restored to him in these ODIs, Starc has resumed taking wickets. Jason Roy was surprised by bounce at his hip, gloving behind to Alex Carey, before Dawid Malan got the full swinging ball Roy had expected, it cannoning off his pads and into his stumps. Starc had a double-wicket maiden.<\/p>\n

Hazlewood backed him up, cutting the ball viciously in an engaging battle with Phil Salt, who carved 23 off 16 before backing away and losing his stumps. At three down in the sixth over, Vince responded with a gem of an innings, seeing off good balls while counterattacking with style, the highlight a lofted six over cover from Ashton Agar.<\/p>\n

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Billings was patchy in comparison, surviving a close lbw review from Zampa, but grew in fluency, including successive sixes off Agar in the 22nd over. The batters reached 50 within six balls of one another. Hazlewood changed the course, the stand-in captain jagging a ball back to hit Vince in front.<\/p>\n

His opposing captain took on Zampa, Ali smashing four and six from his first two balls of spin, but the leg-spinner was too good, zipping a faster delivery through Ali\u2019s back-foot defence. <\/p>\n

Zampa\u2019s next over showed his range, drifting and dipping beneath the bat of the advancing Billings, hitting the stumps again by dramatically different means. Four balls later, air time and a googly made Sam Curran slice his big hit to long-off. It was 169 for seven and all but over.<\/p>\n

Starc returned to hit the stumps of Chris Woakes and David Willey before Zampa trapped Liam Dawson, the bowlers finishing with four wickets each. Only Wasim Akram, Brett Lee, Muttiah Muralitharan and Wasim Akram have done that more often than Starc in one-day cricket and he has played fewer than half as many matches as any of them.<\/p>\n

For Australia, a good day with the ball was matched with the bat. David Warner and Travis Head made another fast start, adding 33 from 32 balls, before both holed out for under 20, but Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne built a measured partnership of 101, gauging the difficulty of the pitch and the quality of the bowling as Woakes found reverse swing, Willey used variations, and Adil Rashid teased through the air.<\/p>\n

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