England v Australia, fourth ODI: live OVER 21: ENG 57/3 (Carberry 25* Morgan 24*) England hanging on in there, knowing that if they can get to within a hundred or so with wickets in hand then the rate won't really matter too much. Signs of life from Carberry in this over as McKay returns. He's beaten a couple of times but comes back at McKkay with two aggressive offside shots, for two and four. OVER 20: ENG 51/3 (Carberry 19* Morgan 24*) Nathan Coulter-Nile doing a good job on dayboo. Hard work for England. Hard work for the fans, I dare say. Morgan looking to get on with it, though, and he charges down the track and slaughters the ball... to mid off. OVER 19: ENG 50/3 (Carberry 18* Morgan 24*) Huzzah! Sound the alarm! England have hit a boundary. Morgan strides forward and thumps Watto down to long on for four. Three singles in the over and England have piled on an indecently hasty seven in that over. OVER 18: ENG 43/3 (Carberry 16* Morgan 19*) Oof. I'm flagging here. Another good solid over from the Aussies. Two runs off Nathan C-N. OVER 17: ENG 41/3 (Carberry 15* Morgan 18*) The Aussies like Michael Carberry for a caught behind, but that's come off his shoulder. It was a handy bouncer from Watto. OVER 16: ENG 40/3 (Carberry 15* Morgan 17*) A two-run over from Coulter-Nile takes us up to the drinks break. OVER 15: ENG 38/3 (Carberry 14* Morgan 16*) Another one-run over from Watto. Not to be churlish but, you know, since the wonderful and thrilling hat-trick, this has been slow old going as England rebuild. OVER 14: ENG 37/3 (Carberry 13* Morgan 16*) The daybootant Nathan Coluter-Nile comes on. Maybe England need to get after him a bit? Single to each man, Morgan's via the edge, and that's a decent start from N C-N. OVER 13: ENG 35/3 (Carberry 12* Morgan 15*) Watson, so reliable with the ball, comes on with a solid one-run over. Even though the Aussies are on top, don't forget that the run rate is still very do-able: currently it is 5.21. OVER 12: ENG 34/3 (Carberry 12* Morgan 14*) Michael Carberry follows the example of his captain and comes down the pitch to cream Faulkner for four. No other scoring shots in the over, nor in the one before it. OVER 11: ENG 30/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 14*) Morgan looks to take the fight to the Aussies, coming down the pitch and driving McKay for four. That turned a good length ball into a half volley. England need a few more such positive moments. OVER 10: ENG 26/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 10*) James Faulkner beats Carberry on the outside edge, and then Carbs nearly beats himself with a silly cut shot to a nearly-straight full ball. Hardly a run to be had out there. Morgs needs to do something special if England are to kick-start this afternoon. Elsewhere, Bunny Onions has taken five-fer to bowl Derbyshire out for 63 and the North East side are heding for a win there... Surrey look doomed at Taunton. OVER 9: ENG 26/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 10*) Mr McKay is having Eoin Morgan on toast here. Beating him with a perfect delivery, seaming and bouncing off a good length, flicking the pad flap on the way through. Also beaten on the outside. Morgan does drill one ball, but McKay is well backed up by his cover fielders and there's no score in the over. OVER 8: ENG 26/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 10*) The good news for England is that it's a small total so they can afford the odd over of consolidation such as this one. James Faulkner gets through his first over for just one. OVER 7: ENG 25/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 9*) Oh boy, that really would have been the grand slam. Morgan drives at the ball, there's definitely a sound and the Aussies are convinced they have a caught behind. Umpire Rob Bailey says otherwise. Australia review, but the bat is clearly a long way from ball. Perhaps he clipped his boot with the pad? It's hard to say, but it's definitely not the bat, so that's that. OVER 6: ENG 21/3 (Carberry 8* Morgan 6*) Carbs strokes Mitch back down the ground for four. Now he gloves a ball from Johnson, but it lands just safe. OVER 5: ENG 16/3 (Carberry 4* Morgan 5*) Carberry plays out a maiden from McKay. His heart would have been in his mouth on a couple of occasions, an appeal for cuaght behind that actually flicked his trousers, and then a decent LBW shout that would have slid past off stump. OVER 4: ENG 16/3 (Carberry 4* Morgan 5*) What drama, then! The upshot of course is that England are now in a serious hole. Encouraging signs that Morgan is in touch, he drives Johnson away for a four through the covers. OVER 3: ENG 8/3 (Carberry 2* Morgan 0*) Sorry, looking at Root's again, he did have to play at it. What he shouldn't have done is try to hit the thing halfway to Swansea. Three really good balls, three major wickets. A proper hat-trick, none of this cleaning up the tail rubbish. He's within a whisker of having a fourth, Morgan driving and missing outside off. ODI cricket, a boring waste of time, like I was saying. Hats off to Mr McKay, classy bowling. Dan Christian the last man to do it in an ODI. Pietersen lbw McKay 5 Big man, big wicket! Not a great shot from KP, playing down the wrong line to a decent full cherry that just comes back in with the angel, really. Didn't do an enormous amount. Kev just drove boomingly down the wrong line and the LBW looks stone dead to me. ... and now it's two in two because ... Trott c Finch b McKay 0 Oh dear. Trott, maybe a bit scrambled by the short stuff he's had in recent games, gets a full, wide ball, throws the bat at it wildly and it flies to Atticus at second slip. No mistake. Here comes Joe Root... and here goes Joe Root! Root c Watson b McKay 0 Wonderful moment for Clint McKay! Root comes out to face the hat-trick ball, it's another good, full delivery, not quite as wide as Trotty's but certainly one to leave nonetheless, given the situation. He drives at it, there's an edge, and Shane Watson does the rest with a low catch at first slip. FOW 8/3 Clint McKay has a hat-trick, and England are in all sorts. OVER 2: ENG 8/0 (Carberry 2* Pietersen 5*) Good solid over from new improved (for the time anyway) Mitchell Johnson. He hurries Carbs into a pull. Single to each man. OVER 1: ENG 6/0 (Carberry 1* Pietersen 4*) Carbs prods forward, KP sees that there is one and calls him through. Carberry, on reaching his ground safely, gives KP the thumbs up. Whether in a pointed or satirical way, only he will be able to say. McKay serves up a bad delivery on Pietersen's pads, clipped for four. Kev defends the rest, apart from one that hits him slap bang in the gentleman's part. Off the last ball of the over, Kev blocks it and Carbs is certain there's a single; he's 3/4 of the way down the pitch before he realises that Pietersen hasn't moved. 14.30 A bit of a delay, something distracting somebody, I can't quite tell, I don't really care because it means more time to eat this succulent Japanese meal. There are two slips as Carbs prepares to face Mr McKay. 14.27 Michael Carberry strides the wicket. And my colleague Ben Bloom has gone for him! "His helmet is disgusting," sniffs Bloom. Poor Carbs. As if he didn't have enough worries. His helmet DOES look a bit stupid. It's one of those swooshy modern peaked ones that Kumar Sangakkara has. I favour a good old fashioned Goochie white one, great big telly head wedged in there, safe as houses. 14.23 So then. Lunch. Whatcha all having? Wasabi's low-grade but affordable and attractively packaged sushi here. "There's just one thing that this match is missing," writes Jon Horsley. Rain. 13.59 So England need 227 to win. Restart 14.30. I quite fancy the Aussies to do this, plenty of seam bowling options to choose from in helpful conditions. AUS 227 all out in 48.2 overs (Coulter-Nile 7*) Funny sort of an innings, really. The seamers were bang on top in the first 15 overs, and at 57/4 with the top four batsmen back in the hutch, it looked like they might get routed. But a fine knock from George Bailey (87) turned things around, and at 209/5 after 42 overs, he and Matthew Wade were in a good position to propel Australia to a match-winning score in bowler-friendly conditions. Then James Tredwell, who'd had some tap, nipped out three wickets, there was a silly run out, a second wicket for the excellent Boyd Rankin and suddenly the Aussies were all out for just 227. Still not a disastrous score on a pitch that is seaming around, and although England must fancy it from here, I think it will be tricky. McKay b Tredwell 2 Good ticker from James Tredwell, he's really battled back hard this afternoon and he's got himself a third wicket. number 11 Mr McKay looked pretty clueless against that delivery to be honest, and that's FOW 227/10 OVER 48: AUS 226/9 (Coulter-Nile 6* McKay 2*) Rankin closes out his work with another tight over, well bowled Boyd, just a single off the over and that only because Coulter-N edges through the slips. OVER 47: AUS 225/9 (Coulter-Nile 5* McKay 2*) Steve Finn back on, to see if he can rattle out one of these tailenders in what will be his tenth and final over. Instead, he's creamed through the covers by Ann Coulter-Nile, nicely played, we've been told he can bat and the early evidence suggests as such. Six off the over and Finn ends up with 2/43 off his ten. OVER 46: AUS 219/9 (Coulter-Nile 0* McKay 1*) England now favourites again after GB goes for the unlucky 87. Just one run from the Rankin over and now it's over to numbers ten and 11 to see if they can at least use up the overs. I had to have three cracks at counting the scores in the collapse, don't know why I've had such an episode over that, but anyhow: 209/5 became 218/9 and that's a splendid counter-punch from James Tredwell, especially. Bailey c Buttler b Rankin 87 Big Boyd is back and he's right on the money straight away. Bailey pokes at the first ball and misses - credit to the bowler for making a chap who's hit a run-a-ball 80-odd look like he's just come in. And Bailey pokes at the second ball as well, and this time gets a thin edge. It must have been a VERY thin edge: Rankin didn't really go up, Buttler did though, and the umpire seemed to like the look of it. FOW 218/9 I make that four wickets in 19 balls, adding just nine runs in the process. OVER 45: AUS 218/8 (Bailey 87*) That came off the last ball of the over, and England have fought back well here with those three quick wickets. Now decent value to bowl the Aussies out. Johnson b Tredwell 4 Not a great shot from Mitch, playing back to one he should have got forward to, hoping for turn that wasn't really there and ending up just standing there looking rather foolish as the ball skids on into the stumps. OVER 44: AUS 215/7 (Bailey 85* Johnson 3*) And now Ravi Bopara, who has enjoyed a really handy day with the ball, is able to keep the lid screwed down with a five-run over. Mitch comes in and rotates the strike usefully. Useful Mitch can haz biskwit? OVER 43: AUS 210/7 (Bailey 83*) Huge over for England, that's put the game right back in the balance. Bailey was trying to pinch the strike off the last ball of the over. Wade c Carberry b Tredwell 36 That's a big wicket! And a big wicket for James T. Wade not really treating a nicely flighted ball with the respect it deserves, it skews off the edge of Wade's bat, and there's Michael Carberry with a leaping catch at backward point. Good to see MC getting a catch after a torrid time in the field the other day. ... and this over is turning into a mini nightmare for Oz! ... because then ... Faulkner run out 83 Oh dear! Aussies! Bailey flicks it straight to backward square leg and sets off, there's surely never a run there, and sure enough, Trott sweeps and throws to Jos Buttler. Poor old James Faulkner is out by a street. OVER 42: AUS 209/5 (Bailey 83* Wade 36*) Signs that Wade is finding his timing and form, albeit that there are just five runs off this over from Ravi. Unless England break this partnership pronto, I think they're going to lose. OVER 41: AUS 204/5 (Bailey 81* Wade 33*) Tredwell has bowled six overs for 48 and cannot be risked further. Morgan turns to Root, but he's soon been slapped and shovelled for nine off the over. After a couple of clunky twos, Wade's finally timed one, lacing it through the off side for four. If this pair can stick around, the Aussies are going to put together a match-winning score here. Finn has bowled nine, Stokes nine and Rankin eight so England need to fiddle something from somewhere. OVER 40: AUS 195/5 (Bailey 81* Wade 24*) Hero Bopara comes back and restores some order with a very handy three-run deal. That was a HORRIBLE smear from Bailey. I mean, they all count, and this has gone for four at cow corner. But it made a noise like one of those MFI kitchen cupboards slamming shut when its springy-hinge is too eager. Cricket bats are a joke these days. Anyway, now Stokes tries a slower ball and Bailey is on it in a flash. Bosh. Now he beats him with a good ball in the channel. Last ball of the over though, Bailey has spooned a drive back past the bowler, didn't seem to quite time it but four nonetheless. 15 ugly but effective runs off the over; Stokes's ninth. 39 runs came from the PP. OVER 38PP: AUS 177/5 (Bailey 66* Wade 21*) Bit more to shout about for the Aussies in that over. Actually, there's hardly any shouting at all at the ground. A polite hum is the only noise from the crowd in this rather low-key fixture. Some execrable music booms from the PA, presumably in an effort to inject some "thrills." Wade heaves Finn for four, there are eight off the over. Delay while the ball is changed. Peter Rowntree: "With all this rain who could really enjoy this series? That leads me to think about England dropping their star players. Alan, has anyone done any scientific research as to which activity is the more stressful? Watching rain come down in the pavilion and chatting all day to your mates or having to go shopping with the wife and kids? Perhaps Mike Carberry wishes he had gone shopping with the wife and kids! OVER 37PP: AUS 169/5 (Bailey 63* Wade 16*) Good stuff from Stokes, he's advanced his cause today, keeping it on a good length and using the conditions, not doing anything fancy. Five off the over. OVER 36PP: AUS 164/5 (Bailey 60* Wade 14*) Finny. There's a hint of iffy bounce. Bit of a running mix-up but, not for the first time today, England's throwing-in is less than stellar. Nothing major, but there have been a couple of moments when a proper howitzer from the deep might have had the batsmen struggling. Just four off it. OVER 35PP: AUS 160/5 (Bailey 59* Wade 11*) Stokes drops it too short and Bailey has nailed that through point, in the air, but Morgan's not catching that one. Stokes beats him with a nice ball outside off. Seven off the over, both sides happy enough with that I suppose. 12.42 Clarke's taken the Powerplay and England have brought back Ben Stokes. OVER 34: AUS 153/5 (Bailey 53* Wade 11*) Ravi has bowled his first six overs for 21, but this one has put a bit of a dent in his figures. Excellent running from the Aussie pair, some neat shots from the bat of Wade and there's 11 runs off it. A hard cut through point for four is the highlight and we will take drinks with the Australians putting up a good fight in bowling conditions. OVER 33: AUS 142/5 (Bailey 52* Wade 1*) James Tredwell getting some tap here from George Bailey and he doesn'y look to have an answer at the moment. A languid six down the ground, a floaty one swept away for four, and then a pair of twos through the leg. Bailey has rattled on past his fifty. Nicely batted, holding things together. OVER 32: AUS 128/5 (Bailey 38* Wade 1*) Just one off the Ravi over. OVER 31: AUS 127/5 (Bailey 37* Wade 1*) It takes Wade four balls to get a single, and one senses that Bailey can't risk his wicket for a while at least. OVER 30: AUS 125/5 (Bailey 36* Wade 0*) Six runs off the over and the wicket off the last ball. Raviiiiiiiii! Voges b Bopara 30 The Essex boy has golden-armed one! The ball kept a bit low and and has skidded into the stumps. Voges didn't really pick the length, the ball wasn't short enough for that pull and it is FOW 124/5 OVER 29: AUS 118/4 (Voges 27* Bailey 32*) The Aussies fancy Tredwell, and this 11-run over heaps pressure on the experienced spinner. Not ideal conditions for spin, and this isn't the biggest ground either. Still, this savage six from Bailey would have gone over the ropes anywhere. Lanky: "'England are still going for their cunning "not picking enough bowlers strategy,"' you say. Quite, Ashley Giles arrogantly defended his selection in an angry manner suggesting that only he is the wise one, arrogant England again. OVER 28: AUS 107/4 (Voges 25* Bailey 23*) Good stuff Ravi, just one off that over. OVER 27: AUS 106/4 (Voges 24* Bailey 23*) Not really going James Tredwell's way at the moment, he's milked for seven runs with some ease. A good half-stop by Morgan at mid on and he could have done better with the throw. Good news from elsewhere: Zimbabwe have won a Test match, beating Pakistan in Harare. That's the first time they have beaten anyone other than Bangaldesh since 2001. OVER 26: AUS 99/4 (Voges 19* Bailey 21*) Touch of good fortune for the Voges, he toe-ends the ball wide of diving keeper Buttler. An ill-deserved four runs. Three singles makes seven off the over and things are picking up for the Aussies, albeit from a low base. OVER 25: AUS 92/4 (Voges 13* Bailey 20*) Here we go! Bailey with the big shot, he's down the track to bosh Tredwell for six and that's a nicely struck shot. Bailey also sweeps for a couple and there are two singles, making up a very welcome ten-run over. OVER 24: AUS 82/4 (Voges 12* Bailey 11*) Four off the Ravi over. OVER 23: AUS 78/4 (Voges 9* Bailey 10*) Tredwell. Will the Aussies look to go? Three singles. Voges looks to give him the charge, but this isn't Tredders' first time at a barn dance, and he fires it in flat for a dot ball. Evan Dunn: "The series, albeit somewhat spoiled by rain, has been worthwhile. New tactics are interesting too, definitely worth testing. This test tho', if we don't get some more wickets soon, they will likely go huge against our lesser bowlers. OVER 22: AUS 75/4 (Voges 7* Bailey 9*) Finally Morgan turns to Ravi, and it all goes splendidly. Solid fare from the boy Bopara, accurate medium pace, not to be sneered at on this pitch. Single for each batsman. 239 the average first innings score in the last five ODIs. I would think that the Aussies might be in the game with 210 though. One thing to note, the sun is out, it's getting quite pleasant there. OVER 21: AUS 73/4 (Voges 6* Bailey 8*) Inside edges, plays and misses, good stuff from Stokesy. A wide the only negative. OVER 20: AUS 71/4 (Voges 6* Bailey 7*) Bailey latches onto Rankin and pulls him away for what would have been four on most outfields, the ball plugs here though and they run three. OVER 19: AUS 68/4 (Voges 6* Bailey 4*) Another good tight set from Stokes, doing his case no harm at all so far today, and he's got through a one-run over. It should be noted that scores batting first here in ODIs have been quite small recently. Sri Lanka made 181/8 against India in June and lost. Actually, scrap all that. Looking in more detail, a lot of the matches have been reduced overs. Andrew Barnes: "Morning Tyers, good to see a bit cricket this morning, but are we likely to get a full day's play? A good start from England, hopefully we can keep Australia below 150. Personally, I don't think we have a bad side out. Although the selection of Ben Stokes at number 8 says a lot about the confidence in our batting. Surely we have a better 3rd seamer in the squad?? All the talk is that we should get a full day in, Andrew. OVER 18: AUS 67/4 (Voges 6* Bailey 3*) Rankin replaces Finn, beats the bat of both men. Voges tickles him for four, a rare boundary. OVER 17: AUS 61/4 (Voges 2* Bailey 2*) Bailey is off the mark at the 11th time of asking, he pulls Stokes for a couple, but there's no further score off the over. OVER 16: AUS 59/4 (Voges 2* Bailey 0*) Finny into his seventh over, and this bowler-light strategy is working nicely at the moment. I guess the Aussies will just want to see off as much of Finn and Rankin as possible and then make hay against Ravi, Tredwell and Root. OVER 15: AUS 57/4 (Voges 0* Bailey 0*) George Bailey tries to get after Stokes but gets nothing, playing and missing, maiden. Drinks. OVER 14: AUS 57/4 (Voges 0* Bailey 0*) Well, I guess you could say it was hitting the stumps - although the Sky Sports 2 screengrab of the Hawk Eye makes that debatable. Probably have to say that it's a poor decision by Umpire Ravi to give him LBW in the first place. Still, check the scorebook and all that, and England now have a really good chance of bowling the Aussies out. Clarke lbw Finn 22 Props to Eoin Morgan, he's decided to keep one of the big boys going. Rankin off, but Finn back on in his place. And it pays off, big time. Clarke trapped on the crease, Clarke is up on his tiptoes as it jags back and he's given out. He reviews. And I don't blame him. Height must be an issue here? Oooh, Michael Clarke. That is harsh. The decision stays with the umpire's call because it is just, just, just clipping the top of the stumps. OVER 13: AUS 51/3 (Clarke 16* Bailey 0*) Big wicket, Marsh was looking handy there. Good over. And a maiden ODI wicket for Stokes in his, er, ninth ODI. Go on lad. To be fair, he didn't bowl in his first five. Marsh c Buttler b Stokes 25 Nice bowling, Ben Stokes. That will, I hope, give him some confidence. A very handy short ball, skiddy and proper fast, it's onto Marsh before he knows it and his attempted pull ends a nothing better than a glove through to the keeper. Smart catch from Jos. The excellence of that bouncer was in its surprise: Stokes had been quite full and the batsmen was looking to get on the front foot. He underestimated Stokes, and pays the penalty. OVER 12: AUS 50/2 (Marsh 25* Clarke 15*) Their minset emboldened, Clarke and Marsh take a four each from Rankin, the former with a snappy pull; the latter a nicely timed clip through leg. OVER 11: AUS 41/2 (Marsh 21* Clarke 10*) Okay, not to extrapolate too much from just six balls, and not to bitch on Ben Stokes, but there's your team selection problem right there. Marsh looks to break the shackles of the first ten overs, two balls on leg stump: a two and then a four to fine leg. Last ball of the over is wide and spanked through point. Voila, a ten-run over, and the pressure is released. OVER 10: AUS 31/2 (Marsh 11* Clarke 10*) Clarke not at all in yet, manages a couple through point, then swings and misses unattractively. Just two off the over, a very satisfactory Powerplay for England. OVER 9: AUS 29/2 (Marsh 11* Clarke 8*) Dilemma emerging for Eoin: keep the main two bowlers on for a while longer and hope to shift another couple of Aussies, or try to fiddle a few overs from the lesser lights while the going is good. I very much hope he goes for the former option. OVER 8: AUS 27/2 (Marsh 9* Clarke 8*) Clarke not looking too confortable against the short ball, and he's played a nervy hook shot against a short ball that evade short fine leg. a. The ball ends up in some sort of drainage tube, something of an intelligence for Steve Finn and James Tredwell as they try to retreive it. They... erm... well, they do their best. Some good natured teasing from the crowd as it takes Professor Finn and Dr Tredwell some time to figure out how to get it out. Eventually "Dumb and Dumber" - Nasser Hussain's words, not mine - crack it. Later in the over, Clarke plays a blistering drive on the up, brilliant stop from Ravi in the covers. OVER 7: AUS 23/2 (Marsh 9* Clarke 4*) Nicely bowled from Finn, excellent line, and a decent but correctly rejected LBW shout v Marsh. Marsh impressing so far this morning, leaving well, putting away the rare bad ball, overpitched delivery driven through the v for a four. OVER 6: AUS 19/2 (Marsh 5* Clarke 4*) Clarke into the fray, battling hard against a decent over from Rankin. Plays and misses, clonks the ball with no timing for a couple, cuts and misses, and then a more commanding stroke as he comes forward to plant the ball solidly for a couple. OVER 5: AUS 15/2 (Marsh 5* Clarke 0*) Marsh plays this Finn over well, in testing conditions. He drives the first ball of the over back down the ground for a handsome four, and judges some tricky stuff in the rest of the over well. OVER 4: AUS 11/2 (Marsh 1*) A wicket-maiden and superbly bowled from the big Irishman, who is carving out a bit of a niche for himself in the England ODI side. Watson c Buttler b Rankin 6 That is a great over from Rankin, he could have had Watson three or four times. Beats him on the outside edge trapped on the creases, gets him coming forward playing and missing, now jags the ball back in and hits Watson on the Old Faithful, but no LBW on this occasion because of height. Watson's temperament isn't up to the job, and he aims a big, wild drive at the last ball of the over and is caught behind. OVER 3: AUS 11/1 (Marsh 1* Watson 6*) Bit of width from Finn and Watson isn't going to die wondering on what could be a low-scoring match. He throws everything at it and thick edges the ball over cover for four. Controls an edge down to third man. Another mixed bag from Finn, beating the bat, but some poor lines too. OVER 2: AUS 5/1 (Marsh 1* Watson 1*) Big Boyd Rankin comes in and it's a nice testing over of line and length, you cannot take any liberties whatsoever against a bowler like that on a pitch like this. Sir Iron Bottom points out that England's bowler-light strategy could work on a deck like this. Both men off the mark with singles, Marsh's a thick edge to third man. OVER 1: AUS 3/1 (Marsh 0* Watson 0*) The ball is doing plenty. And Finn is doing plenty with it, both good and bad. There's seam and swing, but Finn having a hard time with control Two wides in the over and a bye that gave Buttler a hard time and could arguably have been a wide in itself. In between that, some probing line and length and pace. So... yeah. Bit of everything. Finch lbw Finn 0 For the second innings in a row, Finn has struck in his first over! His first ball is a wide loosener, next ball he shapes the ball back into Finch, who plays around the ball and is given out, no questions asked. Would have hit leg. Pre-DRS, the umpire might have said that was sliding down, I fancy. 10.14 Jerusalem blares. England's Irish captain survey's the Welsh outfield. Steve Finn will bowl. Here, should you be in a good mood this morning and fancy reasing something moany to even you out, is my grumpy take on the endless slog of ODI cricket. 10.11 Here come the imposing opening pair of Finch and Marsh. 10.08 Fawad, on that evidence, seems a decent and well-balanced fellow, not the most exciting interview we've ever seen, but he comes over like a good chap who is quite unfazed by his remarkable journey. 10.02 Gregg Blewett gave Nathan C-N his cap earlier. He's a hitter, says Blewy. He likes his short ball, he hits the batsman, he comes in at number ten and gives it a whack. Another less familiar, and I daresay more interesting, Aussie tale is that of Fawad Ahmed, who is currently talking to Knighty on the telly. 10.00 England are still going for their cunning "not picking enough bowlers strategy." Perhaps today is the day that it pays off. England: Carberry, Pietersen, Trott, Root, Morgan, Bopara, Buttler, Stokes, Tredwell, Finn, Rankin Australia: Finch, Marsh, Watson, Clarke, Bailey, Voges, Wade, Faulkner, Johnson, Coulter-Nile, McKay 09.50 Michael Clarke remarks that he would also have bowled. But perhaps the biggest news to tell you is that the weather is thought to be okay today. Cool morning, but temperatures up to 59 or 60, some hazy sunshine, no showers forecast as it stands. After one washout and one abandonment, you'd take that. 09.45 Morning! No hanging about today. England win the toss and bowl. The weather isn't too bad at all in Cardiff. Nathan Coulter-Nile, an exciting bowling all-rounder who has shown potential in Twenty20s, comes in for a dayboo in place of the in-and-out Josh Hazlewood. England, however, are sticking to their guns and make no changes.