Cricket: Australia beat England by five wickets to regain T20 top ranking

LONDON: Australia avoided a series whitewash as they survived a mid-innings wobble to beat England by five wickets in the third T20 international and regain their top-ranking in the sport's shortest format on Tuesday .

In the end it was reasonably comfortable for Australia with Marsh striking the winning single off Chris Jordan with three balls left to finish unbeaten on 39.England won the series 2-1 and will now face Australia in three ODIs in Manchester, starting on Friday.Australia had slipped to second in the ICC's T20 rankings after falling 2-0 down in the series.

"We know where we messed up in the first game, we know where we could improve. We played good cricket but couldn't finish it off, but tonight Mitch and Ashton got us over the line," he said."It's been great learning curve after a long lay-off." Bairstow found his range with one huge slog-sweep six off Zampa but the spinner hit back to dismiss Sam Billings who gloved an attempted reverse sweep to Finch.

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