england lose again

England conceded a record 221-5 before losing the Twenty20 international to Australia by a margin of 77 runs.
Adam Gilchrist 48 and Ricky Ponting 47 put on 69 from 29 balls before Andrew Symonds and Cameron White accelerated in the latter stages.
Australia plundered 14 sixes in all, another record in this format.
When England batted, they collapsed to 78-6 before Jamie Dalrymple (32) and debutant wicket-keeper Paul Nixon (31) took them up to a total of 144-9.
Ponting won the toss and had no hesitation in opting to bat first.
His reasoning was that sides batting first had won the bulk of matches in the domestic Twenty20 competition.
Australia were well and truly under way as early as the second over, Anderson being hit for three boundaries by Matthew Hayden.
Anderson did remove Hayden in his following over, but the fast-scoring mantle was picked up by Ponting and Gilchrist, who put on an amazing 69 from 29 balls.
Sixes rained onto the stands, and it did not help when Ponting, on 16, was dropped by Jon Lewis off Andrew Flintoff.
Finally, Panesar bowled Gilchrist off the inside edge and had Michael Hussey stumped.
Ponting was caught at fine leg off Paul Collingwood, Lewis making amends for his earlier miss, and Michael Clarke was run out cheaply.
There was a momentary lull before a massive crescendo of further sixes at the death - and England even had time to drop another catch in the final over, Kevin Pietersen the culprit.
The vast difference in quality between England and Australia's fielding was highlighted when Pietersen was run out by a direct hit from third man by debutant Shane Harwood.
That came after Ed Joyce had fallen in the first over, and Flintoff in the second, both caught trying big shots before they had had a chance to settle.
And it was soon 54-4 when Michael Vaughan was lbw attempting a reverse sweep against Symonds.
Vaughan, in his first game for England since December 2005, had at least stroked four pleasing boundaries, including an eye-catching cover drive and a trademark swivel pull.
Nor did his troublesome knee did appear to bother him unduly.
Ben Hlifenhaus, a 23-year-old Tasmanian and the other Aussie on debut, bowled some intelligent outswing in the middle overs, and finished with excellent figures of 2-16.
He had Collingwood caught at deep square leg and bowled Ian Bell with a low full toss.
With England long having effectively lost the match, a partnership of 49 between Nixon and Dalrymple averted the heaviest loss in Twenty20 internationals.
Leicestershire's Nixon, aged 36, finished not out and looks likely to secure the wicket-keeping berth for the one-day internationals.

it was another disgraceful performance aussies hit 14 6s n we hit 1

we were terrible the only bright thing iz aboot it waz tht micheal vaughan is back and dun decent

aye gd 2 c michael vaughan back hope he dusnt get any more shit off his knee cos hes a gd batsmen and a quality captain

ana if he did get injured agen were a bit fucked

aye cos im not havin freddie as captain again i fink if he did get injured again strauss shud b captain nd cook is the captain of the future

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cook you are my captain

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