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Cardiff, September 14 (HS). With the help of all-round performance of veteran Liam Livingstone, England defeated Australia by three wickets in Cardiff on Friday and leveled the three-match T20 series 1-1.
Australia, who lost the toss and came to bat first, scored 193 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs thanks to Jake Fraser-McGurk's (50) first half-century and Josh Inglis' quick innings of 42 runs in 26 balls. Apart from these two, Matthew Short scored 28 and captain Travis Head scored 31 runs. In the end, Aaron Hardy played a quick innings of 20 runs in 9 balls. For England, Livingstone and Brendan Carse took 2-2 wickets and Sam Curran, Adil Rashid took 1-1 wickets.
England, chasing the target, was struggling at one point after losing 3 wickets for 79 runs, but from here a partnership of 90 runs in just 47 balls between Livingstone (87 runs in 47 balls) and Jacob Bethell (44 runs in 24 balls) brought them back in the match and England scored 194 runs with 1 over remaining and won by 3 wickets. English captain Philip Short also played an important innings of 39 runs.
For Australia, Matthew Short took 5 wickets, while Sean Abbott took 2 wickets. The third and final T20 match between the two teams will be played on Sunday.