Australia v England - fourth one-day international: live

49.3 273/7 A single to Smith. 27 off three.

49.2 272/7 Smith edges a full one past Prior for four. 28 off four, which is, if anything, even more impossible.

49.1 268/7 Let's go ball by ball, just for a bit of fun. Lee misses the first and the batsmen run through for a bye. Would have been out if Prior had hit, but he didn't. 32 off five balls, which as we all know, is impossible.

OVER 49: AUS 267/7 Smith 41* Lee 34* Four to Smith as he plays his favourite shot, swivelling and pulling Anderson through square leg. And then - how many times has that happened today? - Lee skews it straight into the air, and it falls in between about four fielders. And so we come to the final over, which will be bowled by Chris Tremlett, with Australia still needing 33 to win.

Feel the withering rebuke of The Analyst on Twitter! "This ODI win will create more problems than it solves. Prior will carry on at 2 - wrong, Trott 3 - dubious, Bell and Morgan at 5&6 - dumb."

OVER 48: AUS 258/7 Smith 37* Lee 30* Tremlett returns; Lee hoiks, but straight up in the air! Who wants it? But it drops safe! Sweat is dripping off Lee's face as carves down to deep point for two more. Two more to Smith for a firm drive through the off-side - top work by Morgan on the rope, and Australia need 42 off two overs. Even though it won't have a bearing on the result, England have allowed Australia's lower order to rally again.

OVER 47: AUS 251/7 Smith 34* Lee 26* England just taking their eyes off the ball here. Short and down the leg side by Shahzad, and Smith helps it round the corner for three runs. Shahzad then bowls down the leg-side and Prior fails to gather. Three byes, plus one for the wide, and England have somehow contrived to concede seven runs off the ball of the over. That becomes nine off two, and then ten off three, but Shahzad applies the pressure with a series of excellent yorkers, and even though the fifty partnership comes up that over, Australia still need 49 off three overs. 44 from the five Powerplay overs, and Shahzad has finished with one for 58 off his set of 10.

OVER 46: AUS 239/7 Smith 33* Lee 19* Lee edges Anderson for four as the home crowd shuffle towards the exits. Some more singles, and then a really well-timed pull by Lee for four more, bisecting the two men on the leg-side boundary. Twelve off the over. Still not enough, but Australia showing their ticker. Australia need 61 off 4 overs.

OVER 45: AUS 227/7 Smith 32* Lee 9* Smith steps all the way across his stumps trying to paddle down to fine leg, Shahzad spots him and floats it in slower, but Smith still manages to get it away for two. Smith and Lee then think about a bye through to Prior, decide against, but Smith would still have been well out if Prior's underarm throw had been... well, not six feet wide of the stumps. Five off the over, and Australia need 73 off 5 overs.

OVER 44: AUS 222/7 Smith 28* Lee 8* Oh, Anderson. Take the damn wicket, will you? A bit more short stuff to Brett Lee; he misses at first, and then cuts it uppishly, high over point and bouncing just inside the rope. Four runs for that, and then one more from a toe-end into the leg-side. Anderson flicked the stumps with his fingers as his bowling arm came over, and as one of the most literal wicket-to-wicket bowlers in the game, I can tell you that that really will smart. Smith then jabs the bat down on a dastardly, in-swinging middle-stump yorker and gets three down to square leg, where Eoin Morgan saves the fourth with a well-timed slide. Good cricket, as men (it's always men) of a certain ilk like to observe: good ball, well played, and excellently fielded. I make that ten off the over. Australia need 78 off 6 overs.

OVER 43: AUS 212/7 Smith 24* Lee 3* Shahzad returns to administer what must be, at the very least, the antepenultimate rites. Smith flicks down to fine leg and hurries back for the second; Lee gets a short delivery and fends it just short of Bell at gully, and Australia need 88 to win off 7 overs.

OVER 42: AUS 207/7 Smith 20* Lee 2* This is where Twenty20 sails streets ahead of its 50-over counterpart. In Twenty20, the death is at least swift. Here, instead, we clatter on, possibly for another 40 minutes, with the result not remotely in doubt. Smith plays out a couple of dot balls before carving down to third man for two. Four off the over, and here comes the batting Powerplay, which is about as overdue as the end credits in Black Swan.

OVER 41: AUS 203/7 Smith 17* Lee 1* Still no sign of the batting Powerplay as Trott continues. Smith scampers through for a leg bye, but Lee struggles to lay bat on ball, only just managing to late cut the last for a single that keeps him on strike. Ninety-seven off nine overs is the equation, but there's really not much equitable about it.

OVER 40: WICKET! Hastings c Strauss b Anderson 1 (3) AUS 201/7
Short, fended straight into the air and out, out, out! Strauss with a simple catch at short mid-wicket! Nice tight over by Anderson, and he's rewarded with the wicket of Hastings, who looks none too comfortable with the short stuff. Brett Lee the new batsman as Australia need 99 off the last 10 overs. They're going out with a whimper here. Smith 17* Lee 0*

OVER 39: AUS 199/6 Smith 16* Hastings 0* John Hastings is the new batsman. Think of him as a kind of poor man's James Hopes. He won't face immediately, as Smith can't score off the last ball of the over. More than nine an over needed by Australia now, and James Anderson - remember him? - is going to return to mop up.

WICKET! White c Yardy b Trott 44 (64) AUS 199/6
White's long, ugly vigil comes to an end! Trott strikes again! Straight down long-on's throat as White tries to deposit Trott over the rope! That must surely seal it for England!

OVER 38: AUS 196/5 White 42* Smith 15* Four more for Smith as he cuts powerfully past point's right hand! Twenty minutes of Smith might make this interesting. But while he's undoubtedly adept at flaying the ball inelegantly to the boundary, he's not quite as good at rotating the strike. But that's just imbecilic from Prior, gathering the ball after Smith misses a pull, hitting the stumps with a pointless shy and granting an overthrow. Not a bad over for Australia, and still a batting Powerplay to come...

OVER 37: AUS 186/5 White 40* Smith 9* Trott continues. Reckon he might have found his niche here. Bit of a luxury having him as your sixth choice, no? Why not drop one of the seamers and have him as a fifth bowler in India? (Note to reader: I'm joking.) Smith pulls robustly through mid-wicket for four and then drives for two, but still only seven off the over.

OVER 36: AUS 179/5 White 40* Smith 2* Yardy's outta there after that expensive over, and in steams Tremlett instead. Smith's off the mark first ball with an off-side carve for one, but White can't get a run off any of the last three balls of the over. Good, tight stuff from Tremlett, and England are surely on the cusp of sealing the deal here.

OVER 35: AUS 176/5 White 39* Smith 0* White blocks the last ball of the over. 124 needed off 15 overs.

WICKET! Hussey c Bell b Trott 28 (34) AUS 176/5
Oh, Hussey's furious! On a length from Trott, who remarkably is still bowling, and Hussey simply lifts it straight to deep cover! Bell takes a couple of steps towards the ball and pouches it! An angry swish of the bat from Hussey as he walks away. Just as Australia were gathering some momentum, England make the breakthrough! Steve Smith the new man.

OVER 34: AUS 172/4 White 38* Hussey 25* Right, it's gear-cranking time! White lifts Yardy over cover for four, and then repeats the shot off the last ball. A filthy wide and a dribble of singles, and that's Australia's most productive over of the innings. Twelve off it!

OVER 33: AUS 160/4 White 29* Hussey 24* Is Trott going to continue? He is. Dot ball to Hussey, and then a couple down to fine leg as he edges onto his thigh pad. Oh, it hit Prior on the pad as well as it went through! That's got to go down as another drop, I'm afraid! Still, only the three from Trott's over, and Australia do need to give it some hammer now, you feel.

OVER 32: AUS 157/4 White 29* Hussey 21* Still, on the bright side, that human paean to excellence, Mike Yardy, is back in the attack. White tries to ramp the ball over his shoulder, and gets three for it. He then dances down the pitch, and gets a thick edge that thuds into Prior's right pad! It went so quickly that it seems mightily unfair to put it down as a drop, but it's there in bold, so there we are. Yardy then produces a very slow, very full toss off the last ball of the over. It reached a startled White at thigh height, and all he could do was pat it back. Nifty bowling by Yardy. More drinks, and Australia need 7.94 runs an over to wrap up the series.

OVER 31: AUS 150/4 White 26* Hussey 18* Master Strauss has seen enough from his yeoman Trott to grant him another over. Hussey inside edges again for two, a single here, a single there, and it's seven from the over. It's not very 'Sky Sports' of me to say so, but I'm afraid this is hardly the most riveting fare. Not that Jonathan Trott bowling to Cameron White using a bat made entirely of edges is in any way disappointing, but having been virtually present when England won the Ashes, and when Europe won the Ryder Cup, let's just say this is shaping up to be one of my quieter days.

OVER 30: AUS 143/4 White 23* Hussey 14* Hussey inside edges past his stumps! Two down to fine leg, a couple of other singles as Tremlett keeps it tight, and that run rate's pushing up to eight an over. At some stage, one or both of this pair are going to have to do a Richard Keys, and 'smash it'.

OVER 29: AUS 139/4 White 22* Hussey 11* Jonathan Trott's going to bowl. A little shudder went up my spine as I typed that. So, what did that Trott over produce? A) A series of Joel Garner rib-ticklers, pinning the batsman back in his crease before a lethally quick yorker sears through his defences? B) The full house: a ripping leg-spinner, a top-spinner, a flipper, a doosra, a carrom ball and finally a wicked googly that spins past the bat and tickles the top of leg stump? Or C) A series of medium-pace dobblies speared in at leg stump that White and Hussey can simply step back and loft over extra cover? When White tries the shot, substitute fielder Luke Wright saves a boundary with a sensational sliding stop on the rope. When Hussey does it, it drops just out of the reach of Pietersen, and he gets two.

OVER 28: AUS 132/4 White 18* Hussey 9* That's just stupefyingly awful cricket all round. Bit of a long hop by Tremlett, an ugly bottom-handed bunt through mid-wicket by Hussey, and a comical misfield on the boundary by Pietersen to give him four. As he slid to stop the ball and throw it inside the rope, the ball hit his own shoulder and rebounded back over the rope. Pietersen cares scantly enough to smile as the crowd barrack him.

OVER 27: AUS 126/4 White 17* Hussey 4* Goodness, has Cameron White just timed one? Down to fine leg for two runs? He has, you know. A few more singles, but nothing to alarm England in the slightest. Collingwood finishes his seventh over, and Chris Tremlett's going to return to the attack.

OVER 26: AUS 121/4 White 14* Hussey 2* White flukes another one over cover. Not sure exactly which edge of the bat that took, but it certainly wasn't anywhere near the middle. This is skilful stuff by Shahzad, a yorker outside off stump, and then a slower ball on the stumps, and White can score off neither. That run rate's creeping up on Australia like an unpaid gas bill. Hussey won't have much time to play himself in.

OVER 25: AUS 118/4 White 12* Hussey 1* It's tough to see Australia winning from this position, but you can easily see England losing it, if you take my meaning. Collingwood continues, and White really hasn't looked himself out there yet. He's barely middled one, which perversely is making him try to hit the ball harder and harder. Just a single each to White and Hussey, though, and Collingwood is currently sitting on the outstanding figures of one for 17 off six overs. Australia need 7.3 an over at the halfway stage, which would be entirely feasible with wickets in hand, but England, you feel, just need to keep their eye on the ball to reduce their series arrears to 3-1.

OVER 24: WICKET! Watson c Prior b Shahzad 64 (72) AUS 116/4
Could that be the breakthrough that wins the game for England? Shahzad strangles Watson outside off-stump! It might even have been a wide if Watson had left it. But having drilled the ball through mid-off for four the previous ball, he was in no mood to tarry, and an attempted wild swish finds a faint little tickle, and England can barely contain their delight! What a vital wicket! White 11* Hussey 0*

OVER 23: AUS 109/3 Watson 59* White 9* She kills herself. Natalie Portman kills herself. That's how it ends. It's a Swan Lake parallel, you see? She kills herself in order to attain a more perfect beauty. "I'm perfect," she breathes as she takes her final, glorious gulp of air. Preposterous. Five off Collingwood's over, including an ugly leg-side wide that he's fortunate doesn't disappear to the boundary. Prior with some tidy work there.

OVER 22: AUS 104/3 Watson 57* White 7* Shahzad is back, and is that an eensy weensy bit of reverse swing? Still, Watson drives out to deep cover for two runs, and then knocks the ball into the off-side for one more. Tight single that, might have been interesting if Bell had managed to make a mess of the stumps with his throw. The last ball definitely does reverse though! Big, expansive drive by White outside off stump, and he ends up missing it by a mile as the ball tails back into him. Seven an over now the required rate.

OVER 21: AUS 101/3 Watson 54* White 7* Collingwood's bowling an excellent spell here. Not only is he keeping the scoring down, the batsmen struggling to pierce that irritating inner ring, but he's looking a real wicket-taking threat too. The odd one comes back in, the odd one keeps low, and the upshot is just one off the over. When will the batsmen feel confident enough to attack Collingwood?

OVER 20: AUS 100/3 Watson 53* White 7* White lofts Yardy over mid-on - although not entirely convincingly - for two runs, before a low full toss scoots under Matt Prior and away for two byes. Twenty overs bowled, Australia need exactly 200, and England are on top at Adelaide.

OVER 19: AUS 94/3 Watson 52* White 4* Right, a couple more overs before I reveal the ending of Black Swan and deprive its makers of around £8.50 in box office revenue. Another lovely juicy over by Collingwood, exemplary line and length and just a little bit of nip, and two singles are all Australia can squeeze from it. Big LBW appeal off the last ball as Collingwood brings one back and takes Watson on bat and pad at roughly the same time, but there's enough doubt there for Watson to be given not out and for Strauss to decline the review.

OVER 18: AUS 92/3 Watson 51* White 3* Watson gets to a fine fifty - and overtakes Jonathan Trott as the highest runscorer in this long and pointless series - by cutting Yardy for one. White then tries to swipe over the leg-side, ends up skewing it over cover, and it only just lands safe with Shahzad bearing down on the ball! Five from the over, and Australia need exactly 6.5 runs per over.

OVER 17: WICKET! Clarke b Collingwood 15 (27) AUS 87/3
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? The Ginger Laker strikes! Watson looks none too comfortable with Collingwood's off-cutters, inside-edging through his legs for a fortuitous single. Clarke is nowhere near as fortunate, though, and as the ball nips back through his gate it flicks the top of middle stump! A nonplussed Clarke strides back into the pavilion! Advantage England again! White the new man. Watson 49* White 0*

OVER 16: AUS 86/2 Watson 48* Clarke 15* That's a much better over by Yardy, straightening up his line and making it harder for Watson and Clarke to milk easy singles into the leg side. There are even two or three stifled LBW appeals as Watson props forward. Eventually he turns it down to fine leg for a couple. Three from the over, and that's drinks.

OVER 15: AUS 83/2 Watson 45* Clarke 15* Strauss's flirtation with Collingwood (in cricketing terms, obviously, this isn't some wrong-side-of-the-tracks romance) ends after one over, and Shahzad comes back. And it's a good over, four singles from it. Still, Australia took 38 off those five Powerplay overs, and the game is well and truly alive as Yardy begins his second over.

OVER 14: AUS 79/2 Watson 43* Clarke 13* Michelle Yardy steps into the attack. After spending a couple of weeks treating his gentle rubber darts with the kind of caution you would normally regard radioactive waste, Australia look to have the measure of him now, which doesn't exactly bode well for six weeks of World Cup. And so it proves, Clarke and Watson helping themselves to five ones and a two. Seven off the over.

OVER 13: AUS 72/2 Watson 39* Clarke 9* Went to see that Black Swan last night. What a preposterously stupid film. Tripe masquerading as art. You see, it purports to be about ballet and beauty and perfection, but if you boil it down, it's really just a film about Natalie Portman's cha-cha. In fact, it was so bad I'm considering giving away the ending so nobody else can go and see it. Any objections? That's a decent start by Collingwood, but Watson times a late cut to perfection and ruins it by getting a boundary.

Michael Vaughan on Twitter: "England looking well set to win the ODI. Only a Watson hundred can save the Aussies."

OVER 12: AUS 66/2 Watson 34* Clarke 9* Whack! Watson swings Tremlett's slower ball over mid-wicket for six! Mid-on went back onto the fence, so Watson simply went wider of the man, and England need to beware here. A decent yorker from Tremlett gets Watson off strike, but Clarke gets his first boundary by flicking a shortish ball down to fine leg. Dangerous times for England, and so Strauss brings on the man for whom danger is his middle name: Paul Collingwood. It's not actually danger, it's David, but close enough.

OVER 11: AUS 55/2 Watson 27* Clarke 5* Watson gets his dancing shoes on! He swings Shahzad through the line, and it sails over mid-on for four. That wasn't a remotely bad ball by Shahzad, not too full, not too short, but Watson got enough height and distance on it to clear the man. The next one's a little streakier, over mid-off this time, but it still has enough to run away for four more. Good over for Australia, who now need 245 from 39 overs at 6.3 an over.

OVER 10: AUS 45/2 Watson 18* Clarke 4* Short from Tremlett, and Watson squeezes it through backward square leg for two, Pietersen on the boundary making the sliding stop. A short extra cover comes in for Clarke, which is a smart move in any form of cricket. Clarke steps across his stumps and turns in to mid-on for one, before Watson cuts with bat askew, down to third man for two. That's the end of Powerplay One, and it's been a good one for England.

OVER 9: AUS 39/2 Watson 13* Clarke 3* Clarke's off the mark, forcing off the back foot for three. Watson, meanwhile, is getting itchy feet, and tries to smash Anderson over mid-wicket and into the eighth dimension, but ends up scuffing it along the ground to deep mid-wicket.

OVER 8: AUS 34/2 Watson 11* Clarke 0* Watson gets a single into the off-side off the first ball of Tremlett's over. Clarke's happy to use the rest of the over as a sighter, though, leaving three of his five deliveries. One off the over, and at this stage of their innings, England were 53 for one. England have taken wickets with the new ball, which is what they needed to do, but still that missing fifth bowler will be giving Strauss a mild impending headache.

OVER 7: AUS 33/2 Watson 10* Clarke 0* Clarke defends his first ball. Wicket maiden for Anderson, and Australia need 267 off 43 overs at a rate of 6.2.

WICKET! Marsh c&b Anderson 1 (6) AUS 33/2
Anderson strikes! Again Marsh is a little early on the shot, a simple forward push to a simple good-length delivery by Anderson, bowling round the wicket. Did it stick in the pitch? Did Anderson hold it back a touch? Did Marsh just misjudge it? In any case, it popped up for a simple return catch, and as Michael Clarke strides to the wicket England have a marvellous opportunity to haul themselves back into the Longest One-Day Series In History.

OVER 6: AUS 33/1 Watson 10* Marsh 1* Marsh off the mark first ball. End of a fine over by Tremlett, who you sense must be desperate to go home nonetheless. He's not in the World Cup squad, and he's only playing because two of England's first-choice bowlers are currently enjoying the free Qantas peanuts

WICKET! Haddin c Strauss b Tremlett 20 (16) AUS 32/1
Gone! Tremlett works the slower ball! Haddin never looked comfortable that over, inside edging down to fine leg for four, and then fortunate not to play on. But Tremlett has him next time, cutting his fingers across the ball and tempting Haddin into driving far too soon. Strauss pockets the catch at short extra-cover! That's fine bowling from Tremlett, and the dangerous-looking Haddin departs!

OVER 5: AUS 28/0 Watson 10* Haddin 16* That's four! Haddin again swings high over mid-off. And four more! Cut through point. Haddin's tactic, clearly, is to give himself room and swing. The Tufnell approach, you might call it. After going for nine off his first three balls, though, Anderson pulls it back.

OVER 4: AUS 18/0 Watson 9* Haddin 8* Shahzad still bustling in off his short run and giving the batsmen the hurry-up, regularly penetrating the 90mph barrier. Haddin again tries to back away and swipe over the in-field, but Shahzad cleverly threads the gap between Haddin's swinging arc and the off-side wide mark (a rhyme curiously rejected by most of the great poets of history) and bowls another dot ball. Haddin connects that time, though, swinging over mid-off for four.

OVER 3: AUS 13/0 Watson 8* Haddin 4* Now! Is that a drop? Not quite! Watson flicks uppishly into the leg-side, and it falls just short of Eoin Morgan at deep mid-wicket and squirms under his lithe, diving frame for four runs. Watson then chops to backward point, and Haddin would have been completely and utterly out if Collingwood's throw had hit the stumps! A suicidal single, and Haddin had virtually given up on making his ground there. Two let-offs for Australia that over.

OVER 2: AUS 7/0 Watson 3* Haddin 4* Shahzad to bowl the second over, and it's a good one. Tight line and a good length off his short run, and all Watson can do is chop one down to third man. Haddin then gets a thick inside edge that runs away through square leg for three ill-gotten runs. The rest of the Australian batting line-up, by the way: Marsh, Clarke, White, Hussey, Smith, Hastings, Lee, Doherty, Bollinger.

OVER 1: AUS 3/0 Watson 2* Haddin 1* A slip and a short cover in for Watson, who gets off the mark with a controlled edge down to third man. Swing for Anderson, though, who squares up Haddin with some late curve. Watson tucks the ball off his thigh to mid-wicket for one more, before Haddin backs away to try and carve Anderson over the covers, Anderson follows him down the leg side, and Haddin almost chops on to his stumps.

07.34 The sun is still out, but the lights are on at Adelaide as Shane Watson and Brad Haddin stride to the wicket to try and knock off those 300 runs. Opening the bowling for England on his return from dribble-wiping duty at home, it's James Anderson.

Simon Briggs on Twitter: "Collingwood found a bit of form here (27 from 27) which means that if England return to five bowlers, it's probably Bell who misses out"

07.25 Hold your dingo dogs, though. England may have biffed their way to a halfway decent total, but it's come at a price - they've only picked three specialist bowlers, with Collingwood and Yardy as the hired help. The pair batted at seven and eight as England packed the batting order, but it does leave Andrew Strauss short of options in the field. Reckon we might see a bit of Kevin Pietersen as well, if Australia's tactics were anything to go by. Between them, Steve Smith, David Hussey and Xavier Doherty - yep, he's still around, too - took seven for 98 off 21 overs. The pace bowlers claimed one for 197 off 29.

07.20 Hello! The big news - leaving aside for the time being a pundit on a string - is that this flat pancake of a one-day series appears to be alive still. Australia need 300 to win at Adelaide after a vaguely assured batting display by England.

The good: a mature century by Jonathan Trott, a barnstorming innings of 67 from 58 balls by Matt Prior at the top of the order, finally justifying his selection ahead of Steve Davies, and some full-blooded hoiking at the death by Paul Collingwood and Michael Yardy. Collingwood only made 27, but along the way not only did he pass 5,000 ODI runs, but he middled one for the first time on this tour, smacking Brett Lee over mid-wicket for six.

The bad: In increasing order of ineptitude, a forgivable failure by Andrew Strauss, an execrable loft to long-on for 12 by Kevin Pietersen, and an unremarkable two-ball duck by Ian Bell, who edged Steve Smith - yep, he's still around - through to Brad Haddin.

The ugly: Eoin Morgan, who looked well set on 24 when he tried one of his snap-o'-the-wrists reverse-sweeps, but ended up skying it straight to point.

Still, 299 should be enough. Then again, we said that at Melbourne.

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