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There was one silver lining for England in the first T20 international, a fine allround performance from Liam Livingstone. Here’s what he made of it all.

And so to Cardiff, where England need to win to keep the T20 series against Australia alive. Not that this little slice bilateral goodness is about winning and losing; it’s about… well, whatever you want it to be.