England captain Harry Brook’s maiden one-day international century revived his side’s series hopes against Australia as they beat the world champions by 46 runs at Chester-le-Street on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Victory in the third ODI left England 2-1 down with two to play.<\/p>\n
England slumped to 11-2, chasing 305 to win, after Mitchell Starc removed openers Phil Salt (nought) and Ben Duckett (eight) in the space of four balls.<\/p>\n
But Will Jacks (84) and Brook (110 not out) then added 156 in a third-wicket partnership of good judgement as well as shot-making skill.<\/p>\n
Rain stopped play with England 254-4 off 37.4 overs.<\/p>\n
But they were 46 runs ahead of where they needed to be under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method for weather-affected matches.<\/p>\n
And, with a downpour preventing any further play, England had ended Australia’s run of 14 consecutive ODI wins.<\/p>\n
Player-of-the-match Brook was understandably elated by a first century in his 18 ODIs, with the 25-year-old Yorkshireman saying at the presentation ceremony: “It’s nice to get the first one on the board and hopefully plenty more to come.<\/p>\n
“We just have to keep doing what we said we are going to do (in Friday’s fourth ODI at Lord’s) and keep being positive, take the game to them (Australia).”<\/p>\n
Jacks missed out on a maiden century when he uppercut a Cameron Green bouncer to backward point to end an 82-ball innings featuring nine fours and a six.<\/p>\n
Brook, however, went to 99 by driving Starc back over his head for four before a single off the paceman saw him to a an 87-ball hundred including 12 fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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