Australia Vs England, NatWest battle

Battle begins b/w Australia and England

Today, the first NatWest ODI between Australia and England is going to start at Headingley in Leeds. The NatWest series 2013 holds five ODI matches. Here both teams looking to be good and the squad’s have been refreshed in both sides. This series came after the two T20 matches between both teams which end up with 1-1. Australia wants to win this series after been disappointed by 3-0 defeat in the Ashes.

Australia is going to be lead by Michael Clarke and Eoin Morgan to lead England. Michael Clarke wants to make Australia to put a good come back. Australia is looking good in ODI than in test matches. England have relatively young players in the squad and need to check their squad with the young players. This could make the young players to make their long way in the team. According to England captain Morgan, this series will built some good experience for the players for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

 Australia holds very good ODI players. Three days before Australia defeated Scotland by 200 runs and had set their come back. In that match Finch made 148 and Shaun Marsh made 151. Finch looks to be in good line with his mark of 156 in T20 international. In today’s match both the players are participating and want to carry their form through this series.

At Headingley both the teams have faced four matches and shared the winning credits by 2-2. Rather than the Headingley, considering the total Head to Head matches held between Australia and England in England is 53 matches and both the teams equals with 25-25. And Overall matches globally is118 and Australia tops the win with 67 and England with 47.

In England squad, considering the senior players, Kevin Peterson and Jonathan Trott are back to this ODI series as Alastair Cook and Ian Bell were at rest from this limited over matches. In Australia, one of the senior player, Warner has been left out for the ODI series because of his poor form. This series is going to be tough fight for both the teams. Australia needs to prove their come back after some past disappointments whereas England looks a bit un-strengthen due to the younger players in the squad. England is going to gain a good experience and the young players in the squad will get a chance to make their presence in the Cricket World Cup 2015. The match is going to start in few minutes at 9:15 GMT (14:45 IST)

England Team Members:

EJG Morgan(c) 

KP Pietersen

RS Bopara

MA Carberry

JC Buttler

ST Finn

CJ Jordan

J Overton

WB Rankin

JE Root

BA Stokes

JC Tredwell

IJL Trott

LJ Wright

Australian Team members:

MJ Clarke(c)

AJ Finch 

SE Marsh

GJ Bailey

NM Coulter-Nile

JP Faulkner

Fawad Ahmed

JR Hazlewood

PJ Hughes

MG Johnson

CJ McKay

GJ Maxwell

AC Voges

MS Wade

SR Watson

The fans are waiting eagerly for the match. Readers share your views and thoughts about both teams and which team is going to win.