Australia vs England 2018, 5th ODI - What went wrong for the hosts

#4 No early breakthroughs

Joe Root top-scored with 62

With Cummins withdrawn from the squad, it paved way for left-arm speedster Mitchell Starc to return to the playing XI after missing the previous ODI owning to an injury. Barring the second ODI, Starc had been taken for runs throughout the tournament and it recurred in the final ODI as well.

Starc along with his new-ball partner Hazlewood found it challenging to make in-roads and gave away plenty of runs in the first eight overs. Mitchell Marsh was the first bowling change and Marsh along with Andrew Tye did contain the England openers which resulted in the loss of their first wicket at 71 runs.