Harry Brook reflected on composed ODI century for England, as he captained the side to an ODI win against Australia in Durham. The victory sees England keep the Metro Bank ODI series against their rivals alive, trailing by two games to one, with two to play. Daniel Wales reports from the Seat Unique Riverside.
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00:00England came into the encounter in Chesley Street requiring a victory to
00:04keep their one-day series alive against Australia and had to get things right
00:07from the off. England won the toss at midday and elected to field in Chesley
00:11Street with the potential for rain in the air. The first wicket came with the
00:14final ball of the fourth over with Adil Rashid comfortably collecting Matthew's
00:18short attempt at a second six off Joffre Archer in an over, a deep backwards
00:23square leg. Australia powered on into the hundreds losing Mitch Marsh along the
00:28way before Cameron Green and Marnus Lavashane went in subsequent overs, the
00:34latter of which for a duck. The catch of the day came with Australia losing Steve
00:39Smith who thought he had reached the boundary only for Brydon Carse to send
00:43him walking with a perfectly timed leap to claim the ball. Again Australia
00:49rebuilt and approached 300 having only lost Glenn Maxwell on their way. In their
00:54final over Aaron Hardy was run out thanks to the combined efforts of
00:57Matthew Potts and Rashid with Australia reaching 304 for 7 and Alex Carey top
01:02scoring on 77. England then took centre stage but began their chase in
01:07calamitous fashion losing Phil Salt and Ben Duckett for a combined eight runs
01:12all of which came from Duckett. Then came Will Jacks and standing captain Harry
01:16Brooke. The exhibition of batting that followed saw England wrestle control of
01:21the game. Jacks departed for 84 in the 28th over having seen England go from
01:2611 for 2 to 167 for 3. A small cameo from Jamie Smith came before Liam
01:32Livingston decided that not enough boundaries had been hit. His personal
01:36boundary hitting contest brought England closer to the target but the star of the
01:41show was undoubtedly Harry Brooke. The Australians had no answer to his batting
01:45reaching 110 not out. And then came the rain. England would have loved to have
01:49reached the target of their own accord but it was not to be with a DLS method
01:53ultimately gifting them the victory. Standing captain Harry Brooke then
01:58reflected on converting a start into a three-figure total.
02:03I feel like I've just been a little bit stop start this summer. I've had a lot of starts, a lot of 30s, 40s and then not managed to convert which is
02:10frustrating and then obviously to do that today I feel like I'm back in a
02:15good place playing the ball late and my head's still. The longer you bat
02:20usually the easier it gets so I just tried to, I was actually knackered when I got out there after 50 overs in the field.
02:26So yeah I was just trying to play the ball as late as possible and yeah just
02:32try and build a partnership with Jackson. Australia head coach Andrew McDonald was
02:36still able to draw positives from their defeat in Durham. I think you get excited about the players that are actually playing and we saw that Aaron Hardy called it in the same way, some
02:47critical death hitting there to get us up to a total which I thought was a fantastic effort as a batting unit.
02:53The conditions completely changed across the course of the day and we're up against it early.