England's new era started with a familiar result: a second heavy defeat to Australia in three months. After a 36-run loss at Barbados' Kensington Oval in June's T20 World Cup, the margin was only eight runs smaller over 4,000 miles away at Hampshire's Utilita Bowl, with Travis Head's powerplay blitz setting up Australia's win. A Britain side with a break chief and mentor - Phil Salt and Marcus Trescothick separately - radiated a demeanor of fleetingness, rapidly slipping to 52 for 4 in quest for 180. Liam Livingstone and Sam Curran - both dropped from the following week's ODI crew - added 54 for the fifth wicket, however the innings fell away in the chill. Sent in after a downpour shower which postponed the throw, Australia neglected to exploit their flying beginning, losing each of the 10 wickets for 93 pursues coming to 86 for 0 with one ball surviving from the powerplay. Head and Matt Short hit 15 of the initial 35 balls for one or the other four or six, with Head scoring just somewhat more slow than during his noteworthy 80 off 25 against Scotland seven days prior. Britain's bowlers retaliated once the field spread, with their two legspinners - Livingstone and Adil Rashid - returning joined figures of 4 for 45 from seven overs. Standard wickets through the final part of the innings implied Australia were bowled out with three balls unused - not that it demonstrated exorbitant, with Josh Hazlewood and Adam Zampa demonstrating significantly better than. Travis' Headstart Conditions could scarcely have been more unique in relation to the sides' last gathering, with temperatures something like 20 degrees cooler than in Barbados on this severe mid-September evening. However for Britain's bowlers, the two powerplays felt astoundingly comparative: Australia's initial attack brought Will Jacks and Imprint Wood's 22-run overs in Bridgetown to mind. Short, who missed the Scotland series on paternity leave, supplanted Jake Fraser-McGurk at the highest point of the request and pitched areas of strength for a to be David Warner's drawn out substitution. They could barely be more divergent in height yet Short demonstrated comparably forcing, flicking Reece Topley over square leg for back to back sixes in the second finished. Travis Head blasted a 19-ball fifty for Australia, Britain versus Australia, first T20I, Southampton, September 11, 2024 What's more, Head before long dominated, making the kind of lightning-quick beginning that has turned into his brand name in his second coming as a T20 player. In the wake of whipping Jofra Toxophilite for three fours out of four balls, Head effectively upset a got behind choice off Saqib Mahmood. It appeared to provoke an acknowledgment of his temporariness, with Curran enduring the worst part. Curran surrendered a limit off every one of his initial six balls, with half of those clearing the rope. Head was a stride ahead, foreseeing where each ball would pitch: whether they were short or full, straight or wide, they vanished to the rope. Subsequent to losing his place in Britain's ODI crew, this was not the way that Curran would have needed to begin the T20I leg. Head pulled Mahmood to six to arrive at a 19-ball 50, the seventh time he had raised his 50 years inside the powerplay this year alone. He tumbled to the last bundle of the powerplay for 59, holing out to profound in reverse square leg, however Australia's six-over absolute of 86 for 1 was the third-most noteworthy in their T20I history. Legspin to win Salt upheld his spinners to slow down through the center and was justified immediately when Rashid's legbreak thumped back Mitchell Bog's off stump. Josh Inglis kept things moving in his 37 from No. 4, rebuffing Jacob Bethell when he dropped short, however Livingstone - the seventh bowler Salt utilized - demonstrated the champion. He had Short very much got by Curran at profound in reverse square leg, then, at that point, struck two times in two balls. Marcus Stoinis crunched Livingstone back over his head for six yet was caught lbw on the converse breadth, and Tim David was crushed on the front cushion while clearing his most memorable ball to leave Australia 132 for 5 in the thirteenth over. Curran recuperated from his initial battles to bowl an opposite scooping Inglis, before Bowman and Mahmood modified the lower request's stumps with a progression of yorkers and low full throws at the passing. Temperatures decreased to single figures during the run pursue, and Britain's hitters could seldom warm the 15,011-in number group by provoking the fireworks that welcomed each limit. Hazlewood, returning after a calf protest, struck in his first over to have Jacks gotten at long leg and Britain battled to hold the expected rate in line. A sublime outfield get from David, running back from mid-on to profound midwicket and plunging at full stretch, represented Jordan Cox on global presentation. At the point when Salt chose Short at profound square leg off the last wad of the powerplay, Britain were in a difficult situation - and it got significantly more profound Bethell misconstrued the length of Zampa's legbreak to cleave onto his stumps. Livingstone, elevated to No. 4 from his typical completing job, took Stoinis for 17 in an over to give Britain a gleam yet when he and Curran fell inside four wads of each other, the game was finished. The main imperfection for Australia came as an obvious side strain for Xavier Bartlett: Cameron Green needed to finish his fourth finished, and later took a phenomenal plunging find running back from mid-off to eliminate Rashid.