England vs Australia, 2018: 1st ODI – Statistical Highlights

England bounced back from the narrow defeat against Scotland with a comfortable 3-wicket win against Australia in the first game of the 5-match ODI series at The Oval. Moeen Ali ran through the Australian top-order to reduce them to 90/5 before the 20th over.

Glenn Maxwell (62) and Aston Agar (40) added 84 for the 6th wicket before another collapse reduced them to 218/10 with three overs to spare. The home side lost their top three for just 38 runs on the board before their skipper Eoin Morgan (69) and Joe Root (50) scored fifties to ease the chase. England got over the line safely despite a couple of late wickets.

All the stats and numbers that were recorded during the series opener between England and Australia:

4 – Adil Rashid has dismissed Marcus Stoinis four times in the last five innings in the ODI format. The leg-spinner claimed Stoinis’ wicket three times out of the last four matches in the ODI series played in Australia earlier this year.

6 – The 2nd ball duck in this game is the Jason Roy’s 6th duck in ODI cricket. Since his debut in May 2014, only Paul Stirling (6) has more than four ODI ducks among the opening batsmen.

7 – The century stand between Eoin Morgan and Joe Root is the 7th century partnership between the pair in ODI cricket. No other England pair has more than five century stands in this format.

13.16 – Alex Hales has a batting average of 13.16 in the ODI format against Australia having scored only 158 runs in 12 innings. His average is the lowest for an England top order (1-7) batsman against an opposition in ODI cricket. (Min: 10 innings) Owais Shah averaged 16.61 against Australia while batting in top seven. He scored 216 runs in 14 innings without scoring a fifty against the Aussies.

20 – Aaron Finch completed 1000 runs in the ODI format against England. He is the 20th player to complete 1000 ODI runs against England. Finch is the 2nd fastest among those 20 players to reach the milestone taking 20 innings slower only behind Sir Vivian Richards (15 innings).

61 – Eoin Morgan is now the most successful captain for England in International cricket with 61 wins in 109 matches. He surpassed Alastair Cook’s tally of 60 wins as captain of England in International cricket. They have won 47 ODIs and 14 T20I matches under Morgan’s leadership.

573 – Eoin Morgan is the leading run-scorer in ODI format at The Oval surpassing Marcus Trescothick’s tally of 528 runs. Morgan has scored 573 runs in 13 innings with five fifties while Trescothick scored those 528 runs in 10 innings with three centuries and two fifties.

1011 – Aaron Finch became the 9th player to score 1000 runs in the ODI matches between Australia and England. He averages 53.21 which is the highest among all the nine players with 1000+ runs in AUS-ENG ODIs.