Its again Australia

The 5th match of the NatWest series between Australia vs. England was held at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. The England team won the toss and choose to bat first, their opening batsman was Strauss and Denly who gave a fairly a good start and all the players contributed well. Among them EJG Morgan made 58 runs, Denly played well for his 45 runs and the finally the team scored 299 runs losing all their wicket at the end of 50 over with the run rate of 5. 98 run per over. From the Australian bowling side, Johnson, Watson, Hauritz picked two wickets each. the Australian team opened their bating with Watson and Paine and dint give the big blow as expected but still pointing played well and scored 126 and led his team to success. With the loss of 6 wickets at the end of 48.2 over they scored the winning runs and won by 4 wickets with 10 balls remaining.SCJ Broad, TT Bresnan picked 2 wickets each from the English bowling side. RT Pointing was awarded the man of the match. Australian led the 7-match series by 5-0.

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