England has set the target of 352 in a high intensity match of ICC Champion Trophy against Australia.
Both Australia and England are playing first match of their International Cricket Council Champions Trophy campaign.
Earlier, Australia after winning the toss elected to bowl first.
While batting first England batters build a strong platform. They maintained high run rate since the very beginning.
After losing two early wickets at 43 runs, room and duckets established a partnership.
While root scored necessary 68 runs, Ben duckets shined and played his career best ODI innings.
He scored 165 runs on 143 balls, with 17 fours and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 115.38.
Later in the innings Caption Jos Buttler added necessary 23 runs.
The England side made 351 runs in 50 overs with 8 wickets down.
From Australia bowling point of view, they missed their star bowlers like Hazelwood, Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins. Other than Ellis everyone else went expensive.
Ben Dwarshuis took three wickets in 10 overs while giving 66 runs.
