England v Australia: Eoin Morgan's late flourish sets up opening victory for England at Lord's While Clarke remained there was always hope but Bresnan suddenly found his blind spot with a pair of inswinging full tosses. The first, which England reviewed after it struck Clarke on the pad, was going down the leg-side, but the next was plumb and Australia's captain trudged off without invoking the review his team still had in the bank. Fine innings that Clarke's was, it had to defer to Morgan's. In one-day cricket he is so versatile he can adopt many guises when he bats. On Friday, he was a huckster, working the angles, one minute Eric Bloodaxe, the next the latter's scything bat wielded claymore-like as he struck three sixes off successive balls, the first two of the trio off Brett Lee. A devotee of the Indian Premier League, Morgan has been working on getting his weight low so he can explode up and through the ball with his legs and torso to gain extra power. The theory comes from baseball and Morgan overdid it in England's series against Pakistan in Dubai, losing his way completely. He has since worked to simplify his trigger movement and Lee's slower-ball full-toss allowed him to put theory into perfect practice as the ball, well-struck by an almost horizontal bat, sailed over long-on. But the next ball was faster and fuller outside off-stump and this time he used his wrists to get enough bat speed and leverage to send the ball skimming for six in the same vector. It was a bravura display of batting that accelerated steadily with every passing over until the last bit was a frenetic blur that saw him score 34 runs from the last 11 balls he faced. Kevin Pietersen could be destructive in this form of cricket but Morgan has more options over where and how to hit the ball even if he doesn't manage it with quite the same haughty arrogance as Pietersen in full flow. While Morgan was the pick, four of England's other five batsmen who got to the crease made valuable contributions, with only Ravi Bopara disappointed with his lot after edging Clint McKay to slip. Indeed, Ian Bell almost matched Morgan for fluency and might have done had he not ruled himself out lbw off Lee for 41. Having already had won one successful review, after Richard Kettleborough the umpire had given him out caught behind off McKay, Bell perhaps felt he did not deserve another shot at redemption after Aleem Dar adjudged him lbw at the other end. It looked plumb in real time but TV analysts reckon a thin edge was detected, one Bell and Hot Spot both failed to notice. Alastair Cook made a solid if unspectacular start in tricky batting conditions after England were put into bat under leaden skies. Indeed Cook's first boundary did not come until the 25th ball he had faced, a testament to the seam movement and Australia's disciplined approach. He was twice dropped, once at slip off McKay and then behind by Matthew Wade, the wicketkeeper, uncharacteristic fumbles again repeated when Pat Cummins spilled Jonathan Trott off his own bowling. That mistake aside, Trott was his usual steady self, cruising along with no obvious change of gear. His dismissal, bowled whipping across a straight one from Xavier Doherty, Australia's left-arm spinner, was a timely dismissal from England's perspective as it brought Craig Kieswetter to join Morgan, their 83 runs off 59 balls crucial in producing a defendable total.