England's chaos in Adelaide, Tom Benton's century crushed Australia by 135 runs.

Delhi:The England cricket team defeated the host team by 135 runs in the second ODI match of the Australia tour. In this match played at Adelaide Oval on Sunday, the England team performed brilliantly with both bat and ball. With the help of Tom Benton's stormy century and Gus Atkinson's lethal bowling, England made a strong comeback in the series. The third and final match of the series will be played in Hobart on 20 November.

England scored 355 runs with Tom Benton's stormy century.

England, who came to bat first after losing the toss, did not have a good start and opener Ben Duckett was out after scoring 9 runs. After this, Tom Banton took charge of the innings and took full notice of the Australian bowlers. He scored 121 runs in 99 balls, which included 12 fours and 4 sixes.

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Apart from Banton, Jordan Cox played a useful inning of 67 runs in 49 balls. Experienced batsman and Test captain Joe Root scored the 50th half-century of his ODI career. Root has now become the first player to score 50 half-centuries for England in the ODI format.

Will Jacques scored a more stormy half-century

Will Jacques, who played for Mumbai Indians in IPL, defeated the Australian bowlers in the last overs. He scored unbeaten 54 runs on 40 balls. In the end, Sam Curran scored 14 runs and Gus Atkinson scored 13 not out in just 4 balls, giving a quick finish to the team.

In this way, England scored 355 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs. Xavier Bartlett was the most successful bowler for Australia. He took 3 wickets in his name.

Australian team could not recover from initial shocks

The Australian team, which came to chase the target of 356 runs, had a very bad start. The team lost the wickets of Travis Head (7), Cooper Connolly (0) and captain Mitchell Marsh (2) on the score of just 13 runs. Australia's top four batsmen had returned to the pavilion for just 29 runs.

A determined England fightback sees them draw level at 1-1 in the ODI series against Australia 👊 📝:

— ICC (@ICC) November 15, 2026

In difficult times, Cameron Green and Matt Renshaw took over the responsibility. Both of them made a partnership of 98 runs for the fifth wicket. Green scored 64 runs, while Renshaw scored 63 runs. However, as soon as these two were out, Australia's innings faltered again.

In the lower order, Adam Zampa scored 18 runs and Riley Meredith scored 17 not out, but they could not lead the team to victory. The entire Australian team was all out after scoring 220 runs in 44.3 overs.

Gus Atkinson took 4 wickets

Fast bowler Gus Atkinson played an important role in England's victory. He took 4 wickets for just 28 runs in 10 overs. During this period his economy rate was 2.80.

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Apart from Atkinson, Liam Dawson and Sam Curran took 2-2 wickets, while Joffra Archer and Sunny Baker got 1-1 success.

Tom Banton became player of the match

On the basis of Tom Banton's brilliant century and Gus Atkinson's excellent bowling, England won the second ODI by 135 runs. Benton was chosen player of the match for his brilliant innings of 121 runs.