Captain Mitch Marsh has hailed both the calmness of his injury-hit team and the excellence of stand-in skipper Steve Smith as Australia celebrated a victorious, if somewhat soggy and anti-climactic, end to their UK tour.
Marsh, out with a sore back, watched impressed on Sunday as Smith juggled his depleted attack excellently and, buoyed by an unlikely, career-best spell from part-time spinner Travis Head, orchestrated the victory over England at Bristol that earned Australia a 3-2 win in the ODI series.
Player-of-the series Head also cracked valuable runs as chasing Australia then won their race against wretched weather to win by 49 runs on the DLS method.
