Aussies win Australia Day thriller

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AUSTRALIA conjured an Australia Day triumph to celebrate at a cost in Adelaide with Shaun Marsh sustaining an apparent back injury that could threaten a South Africa tour berth.

Last-wicket pair James Tredwell (0) and Chis Jordan (4 not out) needed eight off the last over bowled by Shane Watson (1-36) but were shut down by the ice cool all-rounder. England folded for 212 in 49.4 overs chasing 218 to win - losing 7-58 in 14 overs. Australia finished the summer as it started - demoralising England - to win the series 4-1.

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Marsh left the field in the 36th over and was consulted by Australian team physio Alex Kountouris. Seamer Jackson Bird is also in doubt for the three-Test tour of the Rainbow Nation after hurting his back in a fall fronting for Melbourne Renegades against Hobart Hurricanes last Tuesday at the MCG.

England needed 14 off the last three overs, then 12 from 12 balls with Ravi Bopara (25,44) and No.10 Jordan at the crease. However a decisive, controversial stumping decision via third umpire video replay saw Bopara given out stumped through exceptional glovework standing up to Clint McKay (3-36)

"I had to work out a basic plan and it worked out nicely on Australia Day," said Watson.

Australian coach Darren Lehmann had put the heat on Glenn Maxwell to abandon reckless strokeplay and get his side home in a crunch situation. Instead the Big Show Maxwell delivered with a direct hit in the field that ran out Tim Bresnan (13 off 14 balls) with England requiring 24 from 25 balls. Jos Buttler (5) soon followed.

Villain Stuart Broad (3-31) conspired to follow his brilliant bowling with a match-winning cameo with the bat, but was clean bowled by McKay.

Eoin Morgan trudges off Adelaide Oval after being dismissed by James Faulkner. Source: Getty Images

Man of the match James Faulkner (2-37 and 27) overcame right knee soreness sustained while batting to claim danger pair Eoin Morgan (39) and Joe Root (55) just as England looked set for victory and a 3-2 scoreline.

Morgan had dragged recalled Root along in a 64-run, fourth-wicket stand that was always going to be crucial on low, slow wicket before parted with 64 required in the 36th over.

Morgan was the only batsman to exhibit sweet timing on a tough strip for strokemakers before charging Faulkner.

Morgan hit the first six of the day off Shane Watson - reducing the target to 98 runs and making him the leading run-scorer of the series.

After a slow start, Root accelerated sending Maxwell into the western stand to register his half century. However he would paddle to Doherty in a perfect leg-side trap.

Having removed key opener Ian Bell for 14, Nathan Coulter-Nile (3-34) returned to build pressure on Alastair Cook (39) - forcing a prod to George Bailey.

Ben Stokes (0) couldn't back his impressive 3/43 with the ball - claimed by returning seamer McKay.

Lehmann had demanded his unit - headlined by all-rounder Maxwell - atone for a 57-run loss in Perth with a holiday win in Adelaide.

However Stokes, fined 15 per cent of his match fee for a send off to Faulkner in Perth, again illustrated why he is England's find of the tour with 3/43. Pot-stirrer Broad's (3/31) miserly display underlined why he will leave these shores with his head held high having taken 21 Test wickets.

Perennial limited overs performer George Bailey (56) top scored with a valiant half-century but Broad and Stokes put Australia under pressure from the outset. The pair snapped Bailey's 48-run rearguard actions with Maxwell and 55 with keeper-batsman Matthew Wade (31).

Australia's innings would quickly disintegrate, plunging to 4/64 inside 20 overs on a low, slow drop in strip that conspired against exhilarating strokeplay.

The scene was set for a definitive Maxwell innings as Lehmann had pointedly and publicly demanded with 30 overs to bat with controlled aggression, 'responsibility' and jettison reckless modes of dismissal.

Maxwell attempted to adhere but would last just 10 overs and strike one boundary in an indifferent stay, caught between his natural attack and prudency expected in labouring for 22 from 35 balls.

Michael Clarke (8) also made a disappointing return, departing in cross-bat fashion outside off-stump to Tim Bresnan (1/51) that would have landed Maxwell in hot water with Lehmann.

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