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00:00All set for the first ball. Meredith Tumumzi. Heard from Preston Mompson taking a look at
00:18the surface. Historically, it's a very good pitch here for batting. Pulled by Harris and
00:27it's going to be the first boundary. The outfield is always quick at the Grange.
00:34And if you're just wondering as to how partisan this home crowd are going to be,
00:38you've already got an indication. Warm applause around the Grange venue.
00:46This goes up into the air, should be taken. Simplest of catches for the skipper,
00:51Mitchell Marsh who is delighted to get the back of Harris and find an early breakthrough.
00:57And it's Bartlett with that breakthrough. Australia on top early.
01:05Edged away, going to be edged for four.
01:10And the fans getting into the action.
01:17Mullen pulls and pulls in front to square beautifully for four.
01:22That's a lovely way to get him into double figures.
01:27The biggest cheer of the day greets the first maximum. Oh what a strike that is
01:33from George Munsey. I said he's in the form of his career, he really is.
01:42Munsey goes bang and gets a good piece of it.
01:45Puts into the advertising hoardings. It's another maximum.
01:49His second, Scotland's second. They're just starting to get moving,
01:52starting to find the pace of the pitch. Oh back to back, this one's even bigger.
02:01He's at his belligerent best here, George Munsey.
02:05He's never played better and when he goes well, so too do Scotland. That's much more like it.
02:15Tries to get enough of it, won't go all the way but will be three consecutive boundaries
02:20as Meredith has taken to task in his second over.
02:23Five have been bowled, Scotland on the charge, 47 for one.
02:31Right now Munsey is loving pace on the ball. The Scottish crowd are enjoying every second of this.
02:36The 50s come up in grand style in the power play.
02:43Taken, a brilliant catch and Australia strike back with the wicket that they needed.
02:50Munsey falls to a leap in English and it's a big breakthrough for Sean Abbott.
03:00He's going to get off the mark in some fashion. It's always quick the outfield
03:03and Meredith won't be able to cut it off. It's a boundary to end the over but Scotland
03:08have lost both of their openers. The power play may be on as even. It's 56 for two.
03:13That is McMullen at his best, lovely shot down the ground. He really is all class.
03:30Oh inside out this time but there is a fielder underneath it
03:37and so McMullen now has to take the walk back to that pavilion
03:44and it looked good while he was there but the Australians they just keep coming.
03:54Well he's got every piece of that Barrington. He's probably their best player of spin and that guy,
04:00well congratulations sir you are in on the action. He gets a prize, give him a whisky.
04:07Again that one in the air but couldn't get there in time.
04:18It's another boundary. Well that will help push the momentum along for Scotland.
04:27Again he has moved across his stumps a couple of times. Matt Cross this time
04:32he does get hold of it. Himself into position to put that one away. Helped around the corner.
04:42Got hold of that one. Four more for Barrington.
04:52This time it's gone straight up in the air and it's going to be taken comfortably
04:57on the boundary. Bartlett makes sure of it. So Barrington it's been fine from him
05:06but it comes to an end.
05:13It's a full delivery. It's dug out beautifully. It's going to be four.
05:20Barrington already departed. Picked up into the left side. Does he get enough of it? No.
05:26He doesn't. Picks out the man Xavier Bartlett who takes another catch. It's one across his go-to
05:33shots and there's silence across the grange as Australia have a fifth. Anyone to watch for the
05:38future too as Zampa returns and strikes immediately. Leesk felt as though he might
05:45have got outside the line. I'm not sure if he did and David McLean has no hesitation
05:50in getting the finger up but all of a sudden the wheels are coming off for the Scots.
05:57Oh where's this one gone? Oh he's got a good piece of it. Soars all the way. Maybe even over the stands.
06:05Jarvis, he's a precocious talent isn't he? And that has brought the crowd back to life. Just what Scotland needed.
06:14Mark Watt gets it up to the perfect start for the final three. That is straight as an arrow.
06:21You cannot hit it any straighter than that. Over the heads of our cameraman.
06:27Another cutter. It's dragged to the leg side and picked out the man. Very clever from Abbott.
06:38He's out-taught Jarvis there by taking all the pace off
06:41and all Jarvis could do was drag it to long on. Another one goes.
06:49As Watt hits it straight to Marcus Stoinis who takes a good catch.
06:53Stoinis hanging on the edge of the circle as you often do in the last few overs.
06:59I think Watt's going to be disappointed it was into the slot
07:02but all he could do was give a T20I wicket on comeback to Roiley Meredith.
07:10This goes absolutely nowhere. It's going to be Mitchell Marsh who will get there. Didn't look
07:17too likely at first. He was waiting for someone else to call it but he's ended up getting the
07:21hard yards in and getting his hands underneath it. Charlie Castle can only scoop it up. He's
07:27the latest to fall. Scotland well folding away rather tamely here.
07:34They're going to be bonus runs.
07:38And some cheers finally around the ground. Just been a little while.
07:42An inside edge gets them to 149. Every run may count yet.
07:46The final delivery of the uneans is going to be scampered by despite the direct hit from Inglis.
07:56Two umpires have a look at each other. They're happy with the height of that
07:59and it will be an extra to the total to round out the first inning. Scotland will have to be
08:05satisfied. There'll certainly be no more than that with 154 for nine from their 20 overs.
08:12There is the story.
08:17It wasn't innings that necessarily Scotland will be overly pleased with but they've got something
08:23on the board. This goes a long way up. Midwickett goes back. Charlie Castle. He holds on and Scotland
08:33they strike early and Fraser McGurk on his T20I debut. He's got to go for a third ball duck.
08:42It's so nearly two in the over and two and two instead it just squirts away. It was a nothing
08:50shot for Mitchell Marsh expecting the ball to come on much quicker than it did and it runs away for
08:55the first boundary of the chase. Last thing you want to do is give Travis Head width though because
09:03he'll pounce on that. Well fielded with one bounce in the crowd. You cannot allow him to free his
09:10arms. That's a stylish stroke to get off the mark. Driven at a catchable height but Barrington can't
09:19get anything on it and it races to the rope. Back-to-back boundaries fuller this time. A few
09:24men outside the circle. Problem is Head pounces on width. Almost an action replay from a few balls
09:31prior. Four more. Cut away and it finds the gap. There's almost an eerie silence isn't there every
09:42time Australia hit a boundary but this is a fine stroke. Only a fraction wide but Head is so good
09:48square of the wicket. He is profited already three or four times there. Big blow towards the leg side.
09:56Now there is a man out there but it's over his head and it goes all the way for six.
10:05Because Midon has come up into the circle he'll club you down the ground. This is
10:09a batting exhibition from Travis Head. He's putting on a show here in Edinburgh.
10:16Now he flicks it away to the leg side. Oh this is quite brilliant. It's 20 from the over and it may
10:23well have been held in the crowd to go with it. Three have been bowled Australia.
10:27They are flying 38 for one. First bowl against Australia. He's driven ever so elegantly. Not too
10:35much wrong with the delivery but the perfect cover drive. Marsh now joining the party.
10:44Pulled and pulled powerfully. We're seeing something quite brilliant here from Travis Head.
10:51He's on an absolute heater. He's flown to 37 off 13 and
10:55it doesn't really matter the length of the line right now. Everything must go monstrous.
11:04Smoked all the way. Going to be six more and Head is flying towards 50. The crown is good.
11:09It's put down in the crowd. Witnessing a clinic of the highest quality from Travis Head.
11:18The 50s come up inside four overs and you can add to that. It's going to be four more.
11:24Head goes to 47. Australia in cruise control. It's 57 for one. The change in bowling.
11:33That has gone miles. Look out in the tennis courts. It might just a sword into the
11:38back of a length. Mitchell Marsh one of his favorite strokes. Smokes it away for six.
11:47Not where you want to bowl to Mitchell Marsh. Going to be back to back sixes.
11:53That is absolutely massive. It's out of the entire venue.
12:01Driven through the covers well.
12:05This is quite remarkable. 6-6-4 to start the over.
12:08Marsh getting into the act in a big way with Travis Head. There's silence across the grange.
12:17More runs and it may well be six. Yes it's going to soar all the way.
12:21Marsh is such a powerful ball striker. Deliveries here. Scotland surely.
12:27Stay bowls it into the surface. It's pulled so powerfully. It splits the two men in the deep.
12:32It won't be six more but it will be four more. This over still is a ball to go. It's gone for 26.
12:39It's going to be four more. You won't believe it. He split the same gap again.
12:42McMullin can't cut it off. 30 from the over. Australia immaculate. Scotland being blitzed away.
12:49It's 87 for one.
12:53The runs just keep coming and there's a world record that could well fall here.
12:58Hundreds only being gone past in the power play once in history. That was a hundred.
13:0517 balls it's taken. But boy today.
13:12Now it's going to be more runs and this might go all the way. It's six more.
13:17Well they're being blitzed away here. Scotland.
13:24Just over the head of the man.
13:26George Munsey I think it is at mid-off. And the hundred has come up inside the power play.
13:32It's the second time in the history of T20I cricket that it's happened.
13:39Oh now fortune going their way and with it goes the world record.
13:43Australia have just posted the highest power play in the history of T20I.
13:49It goes past South Africa's 102 that came last year.
13:57Everywhere the ball goes it's just going to the rope.
14:00And they're making it look so easy these two. Hitting the ball with reckless abandon.
14:05Scotland they don't know where to turn. They don't know where to look.
14:08They look shell-shocked and rightly so.
14:11And it's just going to the rope.
14:12And they're making it look so easy these two.
14:14Scotland they don't know where to turn. They don't know where to look.
14:16They look shell-shocked and rightly so.
14:22Well the world record will fittingly complete with a boundary.
14:27Nobody has ever made that many in a power play.
14:30And Travis Head has been the driving force behind it with six bold.
14:33It's 113 for one.
14:38And he may well have picked up a wicket from his first ball.
14:42Pace comes off and everything changes. Michael Lees takes a very good catch.
14:46And as I welcome Preston Momsen to the box.
14:48Finally some relief for Scotland to end.
14:53Well an outstanding sensational second wicket partnership.
15:00Now this one's been hoiked away and hoiked all the way.
15:04It's a slog sweep right into his hitting arc.
15:06It's six more.
15:07Travis Head zoning in on what would be a remarkable hundred here.
15:11Fishing here at the Grange.
15:14He's going to try and keep going.
15:16But there's a man there.
15:18And it's held.
15:19Well taken by Michael Lees again.
15:24He maybe should have had two in two balls.
15:26But Mark Watt has got two in the over.
15:28Again Travis Head.
15:31This is cut away.
15:32It's going to be cut away for four.
15:34Gets it intentionally up and over the head of backward points.
15:37Good batting from Inglis.
15:41Big pull shot.
15:42Now there is a man out there.
15:43But it's gone miles over his head.
15:45This one's out of the ground as well.
15:47I thought the wickets might have slowed Australia.
15:49But they're just continuing to go at supersonic speed.
15:54More awesome ball striking.
15:58Bigger picture.
15:59Jack Jarvis back into the attack.
16:00And he's clipped away for four more.
16:03Inglis making use of that bit of fortune.
16:05That life that he had.
16:07And it's four more.
16:11Driven really pleasingly.
16:13Seen some very conventional cricket strokes amidst the chaos.
16:17And that is the perfect extra cover drive.
16:24And that is going to be that.
16:26Australia they have soared to victory.
16:29In the most impressive of fashions.
16:33A terrific Travis Head masterclass.
16:35One of the best innings.
16:36You will ever see in T20I cricket.
16:39He threatened maybe to be the fastest 100 of all time.
16:42A world record power play.
16:45The highest ever made in six overs by any team in an international.
16:50And some finishing touches applied by Marsh.
16:53And then Inglis.
16:55And a maximum from Marcus Stoinis guides the visitors home.
16:59There's no winter in Australia.
17:01They are fit and firing and ready to go.
17:03They have blitzed Scotland away.
17:05And gone 1-0 up in the series to take the win by seven wickets.