Key events
Teams:
England 1 Ben Duckett, 2 Phil Salt, 3 Will Jacks, 4 Harry Brook (c), 5 Jamie Smith (wk), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Jacob Bethell, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Jofra Archer, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Matthew Potts
Australia 1 Matt Short, 2 Mitchell Marsh (c), 3 Steven Smith, 4 Cameron Green, 5 Marnus Labuschagne, 6 Alex Carey (wk), 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Aaron Hardie, 9 Sean Abbott, 10 Mitchell Starc, 11 Josh Hazlewood
Adam Zampa is unwell and so misses out for Australia. Word from the England camp is that Reece Topley is also unwell and due to miss the rest of the series. Get well soon both.
England win the toss and will bowl first
Mitch Marsh calls incorrectly once again “I’m beginning to wonder if that coin has a heads side mate” and Harry Brook wastes no time in choosing to bowl. He’ll have Jofra Archer at his disposal in place of Olly Stone. More team news to follow.
Pre match reading: Adil Rashid has 200 ODI wickets and counting…
Proper Criggit:
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to the OBO of the third England v Australia ODI from Durham. The good news? Burn that cagoule and ditch the snood! The weather is fine in the North East. Let me just fire up my weather app to double che – ah. Best put the lighter down and keep the snood within arms reach, I mean it is nearly October in England for crying out loud.
That wasn’t the bad news? Not really. For England that is the fact that they are 2-0 in the five match series having being thoroughly outplayed in the first two games. A defeat today will see the Aussies clinch the series at the earliest opporunity and leave plenty of questions to be pondered for this nascent England white ball side.
The toss and teams will happen shortly with play set to begin at 12.30pm local time. I’ll bring you news of those and any weather updates as they happen. Zip up, strap in and get in touch.
