Five talking points from first ODI

Rashid’s spin cycle

With five bowlers in the match capable of clocking speeds greater than 145kph (90mph), it was the slow bowling of England leg-spinner Adil Rashid that stole the show.

Rashid claimed the first four Australian wickets to peg back the tourists’ first innings with a combination of luck and skill.

Joe Burns and Steve Smith did the hard yards against the versatile leggie before falling to balls that failed to find the surface, out to full-tosses in the deep (Smith) and back to the bowler (Burns).

The other two wickets were for the purists. Despite reading the googly, David Warner was done over when the ball bounced more than he predicted, slicing a full-blooded drive to backward point.

Watch: Rashid grabs early wickets (restrictions apply)

And George Bailey’s scalp rounded off out the quartet nicely, trapped lbw by a faster skidding delivery on the back pad plumb in front.

But it might not necessarily be a foreteller for the rest of the series.

Rashid took four wickets in the first match of the five-ODI series against New Zealand in June. In the remaining four matches, the Yorkshire product claimed four wickets at 66 apiece. 

But there was one Australian Rashid would have loved to dismiss...

Match-winner Wade

Coming in at 5-192 after a collapse of 3-28, Wade and partner Mitchell Marsh had a lot of work to do to get Australia to a respectable total on a batsman-friendly surface.

It took Wade nine balls to get off the mark, but when he did he didn’t hold back.

A push down the ground for four off his 11th ball got his innings underway, proceeding to nine boundaries as he reached his half-century from only 40 balls.

Wade was outdoing power hitter Marsh, and when the pair brought up their century stand – the highest seventh-wicket stand for Australia against England – the Victorian had contributed 70 per cent of the partnership.

Watch: Wade steadies Australia (restrictions apply)

The knock lifted the tourists to 6-305 and it’s the need for fighting innings when his side is in trouble which brings out the best in Wade.

"Yeah it does, I don’t know why," Wade said.

"I just seem to like that kind of situation, obviously I’ve made it hard for myself with running Watto out but that wasn’t deliberate I can tell you.

"So I like that situation, I don’t know why, but I thrive in that situation.”

About that run-out ...

Wade rues run-out

Still yet to score, Wade firmly pushed Rashid into the covers and immediately called for a run and set off.

Shane Watson, at the non-striker’s end, hesitated at first but then ran, but there was never a run there. 

Ben Stokes swooped in, collected the ball in one hand and rifled the throw to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler who took off the bails with Watson nowhere in sight.

It was a gut-wrenching moment for the broad-shouldered allrounder who had some terrible luck in the one-off T20 in Cardiff on Monday.

The culprit was most certainly Wade, and he said it wasn’t easy getting over running-out a key member of the team.

"You don't really (get over it), for the first 15 minutes you're thinking about it,” Wade said.

"I was disappointed. I thought there was a run there obviously and there was not a run there.

Watch: Wade reflects on run out, match-winning knock

"I was disappointed, but the only thing I really could do then was hang around and contribute to the score we were going to put on the board.

"I was lucky enough to do that. It would've been worse if I did get a globe and I'd run Watto out as well.

"It would've been horrible. I was lucky enough to hang around."

But it wasn’t all bad for Watson ... 

Watto bounces back

Watson put the unfortunate incidents in Cardiff and in the first innings in Southampton behind him when it was his time to bowl, and like he has done so many times in the past, he delivered.

Commanding a fast bowling attack which boasts three genuine speedsters, Australia captain Steve Smith turned to the guile and experience of Watson to get his side the crucial breakthrough.

Watson, with his unwavering accuracy and subtle changes of pace, first dried up the runs then bowled the dangerous James Taylor for 49.

The 34-year-old was called upon again by Smith to remove England captain Eoin Morgan and once again he answered his skipper’s call, cleverly bouncing the left-hander to signal the beginning of the end for the home side.

"I'm glad he got some wickets," said Wade.

"He's been working really hard obviously in the nets and around the team he's been terrific.

"That's all he can do ... but getting run out is not going to help.

"The only upside here for Watto hopefully (is that) he bowled really well tonight and I think you'll see him play really nicely in this one-day tour."

Watson was the only Aussie to bounce back ...

Watch: Morgan praises Rashid, laments loss

Starc shines at the death

Mitchell Starc, the world’s No.1 ODI bowler, had a mixed night.

His opening gambit of 3-0-29-0 isn’t as bad as it reads, with two English openers on the attack and on an outfield so fast that anything that beat the field was automatically four.

Starc’s second spell with the old ball was bang on the money. 

Smelling blood after the wicket of Taylor, Smith recalled his strike bowler to crack open the game.

His first two overs back cost only two runs, and with the 13th ball of his return spell Starc had Stokes chipping to mid-wicket trying to break the pressure.

The big left-armer dismissed Rashid in his final spell to add the icing on the cake.

"We didn’t get much swing at all today early so it was always going to be tough with the brand new ball on that wicket,” Wade said.

"I thought he (Starc) bowled some decent balls they just played some nice shots and then his class at the end – he is the best bowler in the world at the end.

"He can reverse swing it the other way, which always makes it hard, it’s going away from the angle so he’s class."