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By Ben Dirs
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AUSTRALIA INNINGS
12th over - 49-1 Bresnan looks like he's going to bowl straight through - too straight and Ponting tucks him off his hip for four... four more, nothing limited overs about that shot, easing his way into the shot as if it's a pair of comfortable slippers and watching the ball race away for four through extra-cover - ominous...
11th over - 40-1 Watson gives Ponting the strike and the Australia skipper has a go at Broad immediately, mistiming a bouncer and picking up one for the shot. Punter's a happy hooker, but then he's quite handy at it... Edward - yes, he's called Abdul and he works in Costcutter in Romford...
Edward in the TMS inbox: "When you say 'whenever I want to cheer myself up, I think of all the people who are uglier, balder and more socially inadequate than me in the world...' I take that to mean that you know the exact number?"
Carol, Portugal, in the TMS inbox: "Ben, you're asking for trouble here, thinking how few people there are who are uglier, balder and more socially inadequate than Ben Dirs in the world. This could cause many depressed people to become even more depressed. The day started so well, too. (sigh)"
10th over - 38-1 The batsmen crossed so it's Watson on strike, not skipper Ponting. Watson moves to 24 with a single and England skipper Strauss posts two short-midwickets for Punter to begin with... a leg-side gimme from Bresnan and Ponting turns him away for four...
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Touche, Tim Bresnan - Paine chips him straight to Morgan at mid-off, the Yorkshireman has his first wicket of the series...
9th over - 33-0 Watson nurdles to leg for a scampered single before Broad gets one to rear up at Paine and beat the attempted uppercut - Kieswetter fails to take it cleanly, one leg-bye...
Mark in the TMS inbox: "Ben, re those uglier, balder, more socially inadequate souls - any chance of naming them so that I can think of them when I'm feeling in need of cheering up too?"
8th over - 31-0 Anderson has been jettisoned but Bresnan is to continue. Decent lbw shout against Watson, that looked to hit bat and pad simultaneously, but Watson swings a short ball away for four next ball. A leg slip in for Watson and a short extra-cover but this pair, or at least Watson, are looking more comfortable now.
7th over - 26-0 Stuart Broad is into the attack now and Watson makes his intentions clear, falling to one knee and swatting him over the covers for four. Broad thought Watson out with a bumper in the first ODI, beating the Queenslander for pace, but there are no problems so far as Watson dabs him to leg for an easy single.
6th over - 21-0 Bresnan has yet to take a wicket in this series, this is his 26th over. That can't be good enough for a new ball bowler, surely? Paine looks to slap him over the covers but is beaten and that's another maiden over. "Please, England, let's go for the whitewash, I've just lost my job and could do with being cheered up!" emails Claire. Whenever I want to cheer myself up, I think of all the people who are uglier, balder and more socially inadequate than me in the world...
5th over - 21-0 Watson is beaten again trying to play an airy-fairy glide and England think they've got him next ball, back foot, but he got plenty of bat on that. The counter-attack is launched - short and wide from Anderson and Watson piles into it, carving the ball to the point boundary, before Anderson over-pitches and Watson clips him straight down the ground. It's choca at The Oval, and very much a jeans-stuck-to-your-legs kind of day...
4th over - 13-0 Paine with a single to backward-point. Not a great fan of Bresnan's new barnet, looks like his barber suffered some kind of palsy halfway through. Watson gets the old lob-wedge out and parachutes the ball down to deep mid-wicket, where it plugs - he runs up a couple, but it looks tough out there for the batsmen...
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3rd over - 9-0 Watson gets himself into a right old pickle, playing a sort of cut-cum-backward defensive against another moving ball from Anderson. It's good that the ball's turning tricks, but England will want to rip a couple out before it starts behaving itself - Watson survives a maiden over.
Alex in the TMS inbox: "We are going to beat this Aussie side becauae they have a RUBBISH bowling attack - they might as well not play and just give us the 5-0 now!"
2nd over - 9-0 Bresnan, who Aggers doesn't believe should be anywhere near the new ball, trundles in with the new ball and Paine gives him the maker's name and picks up the first four of the match. Good comeback from the Yorkshireman, getting one to jag away from Paine and beat him, before the 25-year-old Tasmanian picks up two more with a nurdle off his pads. That's an absolute brute from Bresnan, the ball angling in before gripping and arching away from the groping Paine. It's moving about out there... by the way, I've been asked to tell you that the video scorecard is only available to UK viewers, but TMS coverage is available worldwide...
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1252: The last time the Aussies were whitewashed in a five-match ODI series wasn't as long ago as you might think - the Kiwis did it to them in 2005...
England: A J Strauss (Capt), C Kieswetter (Wkt), K P Pietersen, P D Collingwood, E J G Morgan, L J Wright, M H Yardy, T T Bresnan, G P Swann, S C J Broad, J M Anderson.
Australia: S R Watson, T D Paine (Wkt), R T Ponting (Capt), M J Clarke, C L White, M E K Hussey, S P D Smith, J R Hopes, R J Harris, D E Bollinger, S W Tait.
Umpires: Aleem Dar and R A Kettleborough
1234: Hello. Sorry, bit late off the mark, just having a row about English football... England have won the toss and are going to have a bowl and both sides are unchanged...
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