After Marsh had lost yet another toss, the visitors, asked to bat by Brook under heavy skies and on a damp outfield, relied on two contrasting half-centuries from the in-form Carey and battling Steve Smith.
Carey followed his brilliant late, lone hand as player of the match in the win at Headingley on Saturday with another superb effort, helped in a fine late assault on the England seamers by the impressive Aaron Hardie, who hammered 44 off 26 balls before Carey left him high and dry in a final-over run-out.
Alex Carey plays a cut during his inningsCredit: Getty Images
Smith’s 34th ODI fifty was a rare old struggle, with the master batter out of sorts for much of his innings before finally losing another engrossing duel with old foe Jofra Archer, dismissed for 60 off 82 balls.
Smith looked as if he had played his shot of the day when he pulled Archer with sweet timing in front of square only for Brydon Carse to somehow pull off a spectacular catch at full stretch on the boundary.
There were also valuable contributions from Cameron Green (42 off 49) and Glenn Maxwell, who clouted 30 off 25 balls.
The Aussies blasted 55 off the last four overs to reach a total 27 runs higher than the average first-innings score at the Riverside.
The captain himself had begun with a battling 24, even though he had to wear a couple of body blows from Archer in his first over and then another painful hit to the chest by Carse en route.
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Smith’s battle with his old tormentor Archer was also a treat, with the ever-animated batter at one point falling in undignified fashion on his backside trying to scoop the England pacer, before also later copping a blow to the shoulder.
When England batted, Mitchell Starc (2-63) snaffled two wickets in the first two overs, getting Phil Salt picked up with a mistimed flick to Matt Short at midwicket before Ben Duckett edged him to Maxwell at deep gully.
But then England’s batting wasn’t challenged much against some ordinary bowling, only Green (2-45) picking up Jacks and Jamie Smith with short-ball tactics.
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