Australia v England: Champions Trophy updates - live

now 05.30 EST 20th over: England 132-2 (Duckett 52, Root 41) The left-handed Johnson chops and changes from around and over the wicket to Joe Root who manages to fiddle a single down to third and pinch the strike off his partner for the next over. Just three runs off it, the game has entered a holding phase, something’s gotta give… Share Updated at 05.30 EST

3m ago 05.27 EST 19th over: England 129-2 (Duckett 51, Root 39) Zampa rattles off another frugal over, just three single off it. Duckett is itching to smear him away to the fence and throws the kitchen sink and range cooker at a googly but fails to connect. Share Updated at 05.30 EST

5m ago 05.25 EST 18th over: England 126-2 (Duckett 50, Root 37) Streaky! Root under edges Johnson past Inglis for four and Duckett goes to his 50 (off 49 balls) with a punishing flay into the off side. Share

8m ago 05.22 EST 17th over: England 116-2 (Duckett 45, Root 32) Zampa to Root after a slurp of luminous liquid in Lahore and a Yorkshire Golde here in the UK. This is a good duel, Zampa comes out on top in this over with just three singles eked off it. Share Updated at 05.25 EST

18m ago 05.12 EST 16th over: England 113-2 (Duckett 43, Root 31) England keep ticking, five runs off Maxwell’s latest and time for a drink. Honours about even at this stage. Share Updated at 05.22 EST

21m ago 05.09 EST 15th over: England 108-2 (Duckett 40, Root 29) A buzz cut sporting Adam Zampa is into the attack. He surprises himself and Joe Root with a full toss at waist height, Root missing out and plinking into the leg side. Zampa has a fine record against England in white ball cricket and Root and Duckett are England’s best players of the spinning ball. Share

24m ago 05.05 EST 14th over: England 102-2 (Duckett 36, Root 27) Five singles off Maxwell sees the fifty partnership come up between Root and Duckett. SHOT! Duckett then has enough of nudging and decides to open his shoulders properly for the first time! A well executed lofted drive down the ground clears the boundary – SIXAH! It’s a good contest this, both sides sizing each other up. Share

27m ago 05.02 EST 13th over: England 91-2 (Duckett 28, Root 24) A quieter over from Ellis, just a wide and three singles off it. England have been bowled out in so many of their recent ODIs, they seem to have dialled back the aggression just a little in Lahore, Duckett and Root content to notch the singles. Share

31m ago 04.59 EST 12th over: England 87-2 (Duckett 27, Root 22) Time for some spin. Glenn Maxwell is on for a twirl in his first international on Pakistani soil. He’ll be looking to rattle through his overs and sneak a few past England. Three singles off the over until the last ball that Duckett advances to and lofts for four. He didn’t middle it but got enough. Seven off the over. Share

34m ago 04.55 EST 11th over: England 80-2 (Duckett 22, Root 20) Root shows his class with a purrrfect clip off his pads through midwicket for four. The outfield is rapid, anything that gets through the in-field is going for four. Share Updated at 04.57 EST

36m ago 04.53 EST 10th over: England 73-2 (Duckett 21, Root 14) Duckett has been quiet so far today, perhaps that leg injury is hampering him a little still. He doesn’t miss out on a Dwarshuis long hop though and clubs it through point for four. Share

40m ago 04.50 EST 9th over: England 64-2 (Duckett 15, Root 12) A quiet over by Nathan Ellis, Root and Duckett rotate strike to pocket four runs off it. Share

48m ago 04.42 EST 8th over: England 60-2 (Duckett 14, Root 9) Dwarshuis continues, Root flicks him for a couple of twos and then looks to have driven with Princely elan down the ground only for Marnus to launch himself across the turf and stop the certain boundary. Top fielding, Australia have been ‘on it’ so far in the field. Share Updated at 04.49 EST

50m ago 04.40 EST 7th over: England 55-2 (Duckett 14, Root 4) Nathan Ellis comes into the attack and he goes to his variations right away. Duckett flicks him away fine for four but is then scythed in half by a cutter, the ball jags more than any we’ve seen so far today, so much so that it evades Inglis behind the stumps and runs away for four more. Share Updated at 04.48 EST

1h ago 04.34 EST WICKET! Smith c Carey b Dwarshuis 15 (England 43-2) Gone! Jamie Smith turns on his heels in disgust as he plinks a drive to that man Alex Carey at mid-on. A dolly this time for Carey who makes no mistake. Smith is replaced by Joe Root, who Matty Hayden thinks should be batting at number three anyway. Say it how you see it Haydos. Root drives nicely down the ground to get off the mark with a scampered three runs. 6th over: England 46-2 (Duckett 10, Root 3) Australia will be very happy with their start in Lahore. View image in fullscreen Australia's Ben Dwarshuis (right) celebrates the removal of Jamie Smith. Photograph: KM Chaudary/AP Share Updated at 04.55 EST

1h ago 04.31 EST 5th over: England 42-1 (Duckett 9, Smith 15) Spencer Johnson beats Jamie Smith with a ball that slides across at pace but then follows up with a poor ball on the pads that is flicked away fine for four. Close! Smith cloths a drive that just evades a back pedalling Alec Carey at mid-on, the ball winning out this time. Shot! Smith pongoes a drive through cover for four to end the over. Share

1h ago 04.27 EST 4th over: England 32-1 (Duckett 9, Smith 5) Duckett pings a four off his pads to keep England ticking. Dwarshuis looks a bit nervy and flings five wides down the leg side. Another wide follows a few balls later to make it twelve runs off the over. John Starbuck thinks England are light on bowling… “Jim, while acknowledging that they do take a few wickets now and then, Root and Livingstone are not front-line bowlers. England look a bit bat-heavy today, which just about doubles the importance of a huge score.” “Not a bad grab that” Ian Sargeant is the king of understatement. Share

1h ago 04.20 EST 3rd over: England 20-1 (Duckett 4, Smith 4) I think that was Alex Carey’s first ever outfield catch in ODI cricket! He’s had the gloves for 143 of his 155 internationals matches. A real ‘hanger’ to get him off the mark, as I’ve learned they say of such grabs in Aussie parlance: The Spin | Steve Smith and the unbridled joy of taking catches in Test cricket Read more Catching is one of the great joys of the game, and – bear with me here – maybe of life itself? The act of plucking a travelling thing out of the air and cradling it safely in your hands taps into something deeply satisfying in the human condition. Cricketer or not, most of us can relate to the feeling in some way. Remember when you who held on to that clementine your sister-in-law flung at you with a bit too much venom last Christmas? God that felt good. “Can we just rock’n’roll that please, make sure no pith is in contact with the carpet fibres, looks clean to me, fingers clearly under it – you can stick with your original decision Grandma, put down the sherry, you’re on screen now.” Share

1h ago 04.16 EST 2nd over: England 17-1 (Duckett 1, Smith 4) The newly minted Jamie Smith is in early at number three and makes himself at home right away with a delicious drive through cover for four. Not a bad start to this game! Share

1h ago 04.14 EST WICKET! Salt c Carey b Dwarshuis 10 (England 13-1) Salt flicked into the midwicket region and looked like he had cleared the in-field, Carey ran a couple of steps and then launched into the air and plucked the ball in his right hand a full stretch. An absolute screamer! Share Updated at 04.15 EST

1h ago 04.12 EST OH MY GOOD GOLLY WHAT A CATCH! Alex Carey has pulled off a blinder to get rid of Phil Salt! Share

1h ago 04.11 EST 1st over: England 12-0 (Salt 10, Duckett 0) Yep the wicket and outfield look like the sort a batter would drool over. England get twelve off the first over as Salt bunts down the ground for four and then flicks off his pads in real style for SIX! Flamboyant from the opener. Share

1h ago 04.02 EST Righto, Spencer Johnson has the new ball for Australia and has some big size 12s to fill. Phil Salt will take the first ball and Ben Duckett is down the non-strikers. The pitch looks a belter. PLAY! Share

1h ago 04.01 EST The players emerge for a burst of the anthems. The DJ at the ground was blasting some AC/DC earlier, clearly showing bias to the Antipodeans. My now nearly teenage nephew used to dance around his living room to AC/DC as a toddler, in the nud nud. Just posting that to embarrass him. This was his pantless ‘jam’ if I recall: Share

2h ago 03.53 EST Martin Pegan has penned this handy guide to the new faces in the Aussie set up: Unfamiliar faces: who has a chance to shine for Australia at Champions Trophy? | Martin Pegan Read more Planning around Australia’s white-ball sides has been much more haphazard. Opportunities have been handed out to emerging talents and second-stringers while frontliners have been on personal or parental leave, injured, or simply rested with eyes on bigger, more lucrative prizes. In the past 18 months alone, Australia blooded enough ODI players to fill a full XI. The hope seemed to be that a handful of them would not only stick to the international white-ball squads, but eventually push their Test credentials too. The broad brush approach now looks like a masterstroke, after Australia’s initial Champions Trophy squad was decimated by a raft of withdrawals and injuries, leaving six of the debutants during that recent period to take the reins on a global stage.” Share

2h ago 03.51 EST Guy Hornsby is our first caller! “Morning Jimbo, morning everyone. I’m approaching today with trepidation and realism. India showed England are not really on it. We seem to be happy going into a tournament in Pakistan with only one front line spinner, pretty much an outlier. I feel for Rehan Ahmed in particular. Livingstone and Root have a lot riding on them. Our batting has been flaky, with only Duckett consistent. We need him, Root and Buttler to go well. Australia are missing their pace attack, but underestimating them never ends well. Basically I’m tired and I’m struggling to see how we don’t fall in a heap in the next two weeks. Convince me!” Errr… get your eyeball around this and BELIEVE* Guy! *This OBO is – of course – entirely impartial. Share Updated at 03.52 EST

2h ago 03.46 EST And here’s one Ali prepared earlier on England’s headaches: Champions Trophy make or break for Buttler as England look to stop slide Read more While Buttler likely needs positive results for his own job security, such thoughts – much like the Test team under Stokes and McCullum – are being parked. Ben Duckett caused a stir during the recent 3-0 defeat in India when he said he did not care about the whitewash if England went on to win the Champions Trophy; a statement that saw its qualifier widely ignored and annoyed a good deal of supporters in the process. For Buttler, having also defended his team’s work ethic in India, it was misunderstood. “Every single player who plays international sport, no matter what sport it is, I can guarantee would not have got there if they weren’t ultra-competitive and didn’t want to win,” said Buttler, clarifying his opener’s remarks. What people must understand is that people saying you want to win doesn’t guarantee results. You have to find ways to look after the things that you can control; to work out how to be really present at a tournament like the Champions Trophy. Getting close to what we’re capable of is the thing I want most out of us, and if we’re doing that then the results will come as well.” Share

2h ago 03.45 EST Ali Martin is our man on the ground, he’s dipped his quill early and sent us this: Greetings from Lahore, where the sun is shining and a humdinger awaits. First time at the Gaddafi Stadium for me and have to say, it’s a pretty cool ground. It also feels box fresh after a refurbishment that beat its deadline in a way that any written journalist would doff a cap too. Speaking of which, there’s no Aussie press pack on the ground in Pakistan, sadly, although we’ll no doubt catch up with a few at the World Test Championship final this summer. Talk of a decent crowd today and the queues outside were promising. See what happens, might look sparse on the TV at first - security is very tight outside - but should hopefully fill up later.” Share

2h ago 03.42 EST Australia win the toss and will BOWL The sun is beating down on the newly spruced Gaddafi stadium in Lahore and the captains are ready for the toss. The coin is flipped and Australia win it, Steve Smith is going to bowl first! Jos Buttler says he probably would have done the same but was 50-50. There might be some dew around later. Here are the teams, Steve Smith does well to reel off his XI when asked at the toss. We knew England’s already as they named it two days out. Jamie Smith batting at three and keeping is the big piece of news. Australia Travis Head, Matt Short, Steve Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wk), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson England Ben Duckett, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood View image in fullscreen Steve Smith and Jos Buttler shake hands before hostilities commence. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/ICC/Getty Images Share Updated at 04.10 EST

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