Australia won the 5-match ODI series against England 3-2. In the last match of the series, Australia defeated England by 49 runs (Duckworth-Lewis rule) on the basis of Travis Head's all-round performance. This was England's last series before entering coach Brendon McCullum's 'baseball' style ODI team in Test cricket, but it lost here. In this match played in Bristol, opener Ben Duckett scored an excellent century for England but Australia's spinners made a strong comeback in the match, after which Matthew Short's explosive innings took the team to the threshold of victory.

After losing the first two matches of the series badly, England made a strong comeback in the next two matches and leveled the series 2-2. Harry Brook, who was leading the team in the absence of regular captain Jos Buttler, continued his excellent performance with the bat and played an excellent innings for the third consecutive match. Brook scored 72 runs in just 52 balls with the help of 7 sixes and 3 fours. Opener Phil Salt also scored 45 runs in just 27 balls.

But the real star of the England team was left-handed opener Ben Duckett, who scored the second century of his ODI career exactly one year later. Incidentally, he scored his first century in Bristol in September last year. Duckett scored 107 runs in 91 balls with the help of 13 fours and 2 sixes. Together, these three took England to 202 runs in just 25 overs. Just here the trend of the innings changed and the Australian spinners tightened their grip. Adam Zampa, who hit 6 sixes at the hands of Brook, dismissed him and after this, Travis Head destroyed England's hopes of scoring more than 350 runs by taking 4 wickets. England scored 309 runs in 49.2 overs.

With the start of Australia's innings, the possibility of rain had increased. In such a situation, the Australian batsmen started batting aggressively as soon as they arrived, so that in the event of a decision using the Duckworth-Lewis rule, the team remained ahead according to the fixed equation. This is what happened in the end and its star was Matthew Short. Opener Short, who returned to the team due to captain Mitchell Marsh being ill, gave an explosive start to the team by scoring a half-century in just 23 balls. Short and Head together scored 78 runs in just 7.1 overs. Head was out after scoring 31 runs and Short was out after scoring 58 runs. After this, Steve Smith and Josh English did not allow any more wickets to fall and took the team to 165 runs by the 21st over. The match was stopped due to rain in the 21st over and could not be restarted.