"With the bat myself and Will just tried to build a partnership and create that platform. We didn't have much of a chat between innings. "I thought the pitch got better towards the end of Australia's innings. It was a simple message of go out there and play your own game." Australia looked well set to wrap up a series-clinching win when they posted 304-7 before Mitchell Starc took those early wickets. Captain Mitchell Marsh, though, said England merited their win. "I thought we did extremely well to get the 300 with conditions early on, a lot of seam and it was hard work," he said. "They got a really good partnership going, and in one-day cricket with a big partnership you can set the game up for yourself, [so] fair play to them."