England put Australia to the sword
England beat Australia by eight wickets in the fourth ODI in Durham to clinch the series with one game to spare.
Steve Finn was the man of the match for his 4-37 before half-centuries from Ian Bell and Jonathan Trott eased the hosts to victory with 13 balls in hand.
England made an excellent start in pursuit of 201 with openers Alastair Cook and Bell hitting 42 in the first 10-over Powerplay.
Cook was then dropped on 13 by Clint McKay off his own bowling as the Australians searched for a breakthrough.
McKay eventually got his man when the England captain picked out substitute fielder Steve Smith ? on for the injured Brett Lee ? at short mid-wicket.
Lee's departure meant he was the second Australia bowler to leave the field with an injury after Shane Watson had also pulled up with a leg problem.
Bell carried onto a largely untroubled 50 from 71 balls with Trott helping his Warwickshire county team-mate add 66 for the second wicket.
The former was dismissed for 70 with England in a winning position, inside-edging onto his stumps attempting to late cut McKay.
Trott eased to his own 50 from 87, with the run-rate never an issue, finishing on 64 as Ravi Bopara helped him add an unbeaten 65 for the third wicket.
Australia could only make 200-9 batting first but that was something of a recovery after being 96-6.
Finn was the bowling star as he struck with successive deliveries on two occasions.
David Hussey made a defiant 70 to ensure the tourists gave their bowlers something to work with but it ultimately proved well below-par.
England had no hesitation in putting Australia into bat in damp conditions that perfectly suited their opening seamers.
James Anderson and Finn both started with maidens as Australia's openers focused on preservation.
Finn made a double breakthrough at the start of his third over when he trapped David Warner and Peter Forrest leg before off consecutive balls.
Umpire Nigel Llong rejected Finn's appeal against Warner but England instantly referred the decision, which was overturned in their favour with the ball found to be hitting middle stump.
Forrest went the same way off the very next delivery with the right-hander failing to move his feet sufficiently.
Australia's score of 15-2 represented their lowest ever in the 10-over Powerplay - beating the 18-2 v New Zealand at Centurion in 2009
Michael Clarke was then dropped by Eoin Morgan in the gully on eight in Tim Bresnan's first over ? the first of a number of missed chances by the England fielders.
An expensive over from Stuart Broad followed in which 14 runs came from the 14th over, producing a boundary from Clarke followed by a six off a free hit.
Bresnan struck soon after to remove Watson (28) as the right-hander chopped an inswinger, that was too close to cut, onto his stumps.
Bopara took advantage of the favourable seam bowling conditions to bowl nine economical overs for 29.
The right-armer bowled George Bailey with an unplayable ball that clipped the off bail and almost secured a second wicket in the over when Hussey was hit on the foot by an inswinging yorker. Unfortunately for the bowler the reviewed decision judged the ball would only have been clipping the leg stump ? not sufficient to overturn umpire Llong's original verdict.
Anderson put down a difficult chance when Clarke edged Broad on 31 with Kieswetter obstructing the fielder's view as he dived across the first slip.
Finn returned to the attack to bowl Clarke (43) through the gate with a full-pitched delivery and struck again with his next ball when Matthew Wade inside-edged and Kieswetter took a fine catch one-handed at the second attempt diving to his right.
Hussey was given two lives ? a caught and bowled chance to Bopara on 15 and then Bell failing to take a chance on the cover boundary on 29 ? as Lee (27) offered the senior batsman good support.
The seventh-wicket pair reached their 50-run partnership off 68 balls while Hussey reached his own half-century off 62 balls
Lee hit Anderson for six but then holed out to long on next ball to give the bowler his 500th international wicket in all forms.
McKay then skied Anderson in his next over to Bresnan at mid-off, who took a tumbling effort.
Hussey picked up boundaries from the first two balls of the final over from Bresnan before finding long-on going for a third.
England's win represents a national record of nine successive ODI wins and they move onto Old Trafford for the last match of the series on Tuesday in high spirits.
