England one-day captain Alastair Cook has hailed his side's pace-bowling resources following their victory over Australia by 15 runs at Lord's yesterday.
James Anderson, Steven Finn, Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan took two wickets each, while wicketless off-spinner Graeme Swann bowled 10 economical overs for just 47, as England successfully defended their modest total of 272.
"Australia got off to a good start, but what is very nice as a captain is when you have got five experienced bowlers like that," said Cook.
"You know they might bowl the odd bad over but they don't bowl many bad spells, so we knew we would take it down to the wire.
"We thought 270 was a par score - defendable, yes, but if someone played out of their skin we probably couldn't have defended it. Thankfully we just kept nipping wickets at the right time."
The sides are due to meet for the second time in the five-match series at The Oval on Sunday.
Robert Summerscales
