England v Australia: fifth ODI – live!

6th over: Australia 58-0 (Finch 21, Head 32) Ball swung around to the Statham End after a couple from the Anderson End. Doesn’t change the result, Head driving gloriously through extra cover for four. That’s the shot of the day so far. Later, Finch off the hip in the air to Curran at short fine leg and it has just fallen short.

5th over: Australia 52-0 (Finch 20, Head 27) Joe Root? Well, it worked in Durham. Will it again? Not initially, Head driving a couple then cutting hard to the rope. Aaron Finch’s turn and he leaps onto the front foot and smashes back over the Test captain’s head for another boundary. He goes again from the final delivery and doesn’t get much of it but with the field up his sliced drive nets him two more to extra cover. 13 from the set and the Australian 50 is up in five overs! Strike lambs!

4th over: Australia 39-0 (Finch 14, Head 20) Finch is away now too, lofting a cover drive to the rope then flicking looooong over midwicket into the crowd for the first big one the morning. Curran has given up 25 runs in two overs to begin his ODI career.

3rd over: Australia 28-0 (Finch 4, Head 19) Ball has Head playing defensively to begin but the Australian pair collect up two boundaries in the second half of the over with Head clipping again through square leg then Finch through midwicket to finish. Lovely shot to get the vice-captain belatedly off the mark.

2nd over: Australia 19-0 (Finch 0, Head 14) Sam Curran with the new ball on debut, running away from us at the Brian Statham End. It is not a great start from the young man, overpitching early to Head who helps himself to four through cover. The left-armer sprays a side down the legside to the same man before gifting him a juicy one on leg-stump, clipped away for a second boundary. A solid drive down the ground finishes off Head’s productive over, the pair turning for three to make 14 from the over.

1st over: Australia 5-0 (Finch 0, Head 1) Wide given first up to a delivery swinging away outside the off-stump. Batsman’s game, innit. More extras, three leg byes to fine leg, the boundary prevented by Adil Rashid racing around for backward square before putting in a really good dive. He hasn’t had the best series in the field so that will plenty for his confidence. Head gets the first runs off the bat, tucking a single fine.

“It looks like an absolute belter to me,” says Jimmy Anderson on TMS. “I think the form that England are in, to be honest, they will think they can get absolutely anything that Australia can set them.” On that note, here come the teams. Finch and Head are running out for Australia, so Short is batting down the list for the first time in his international career. Jake Ball to bowl the first over for England. PLAY!

Tim Paine talking to TMS: “We have spoken a lot about how this side is learning on the job a bit. While we are here we are trying to win but trying to get the balance right as soon as possible. We have a really young team but these kids are really enjoying playing international cricket in England. We’d prefer to be going better but as so long as we are learning and getting some games into these kids. We haven’t been overdoing it or having more meetings than we would, it is about setting the same message.”

Eoin Morgan also on BBC: “We would have batted first given the ground and conditions it does get a bit tougher to chase with a bit of turn. It is not a bad thing we have lost the toss and are doing what we don’t want to do as you don’t always get to do what you want first. Today is going to be about adapting. Given the series we have had we have been at the top of our game, today is no different. There is a really good feeling about the day and we need to capitalise on that.”

Talk about a good problem to have: they are going so well that it is useful for England to increase the degree of difficulty by not doing what they want at the toss.

“In the other place,” as they say in parliamentary debate. That being Russia. Specifically, Nizhny Novgorod, where England are playing their second football World Cup fixture at 1pm against Panama. As Test Match Special’s Dan Norcross said on twitter: “Very good of Australia to bat first. It means England won’t start batting until after the football has finished. Blessed day.” I suspect this is a widely-held view?

England: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (c), Jos Buttler (+), Moeen Ali, Adil Rashid, Sam Curran, Liam Plunkett, Jake Ball

Australia: Aaron Finch, Travis Head, Shaun Marsh, Marcus Stoinis, D’Arcy Short, Alex Carey, Tim Paine (c / +), Ashton Agar, Billy Stanlake, Kane Richardson, Nathan Lyon

Interesting that Short was named as no. 5 on the official teamsheet handed over by Paine. They must really like Head as an opener not to have given him a go in the middle this series, where he has batted quite well for Australia over the last couple of years.

Correction on Craig Overton. He hasn’t been rested, he has a side injury and is getting a scan on Monday.

Wrapping up the preview. Here is Ali Martin’s take on the potential five-nil, where he successfully manages to “champ” Tim Paine in the final par. Good effort.

While you’re there, here is my report from the England women’s double-header at Taunton yesterday (yes, it was a long drive up here last night) and Tanya Aldred’s wrap from the Shires.