Australia scrambled to 7-251 from their 50 overs in the one-day cricket match against England at the Oval on Sunday.

Shane Watson (66 off 80 balls) and George Bailey (65 off 86 balls) topscored as England’s bowling attack again suffocated Australia’s batsmen in the middle part of the innings.

After paceman Steve Finn (1-36 off nine overs) led the way early, spinner Graeme Swann (1-27 off eight overs) and medium-pacers Ravi Bopara (1-16 off five overs) tied Australia in knots.

Australia made two changes with Mitchell Johnson coming in for Pat Cummins (side strain) and Peter Forrest for Steve Smith (omitted) while Jade Dernbach took fellow English quick James Anderson’s (groin) spot.

David Warner (10) fell trying to pull a wide ball from Finn and ended up top-edging it to Ian Bell at square leg.

Australia nearly suffered another setback shortly afterwards but Jonathan Trott grassed a sharp chance at gully when Shane Watson was on eight.

Peter Forrest (12 off 30 balls) was unable to find his rhythm before wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter took a fine one-handed diving catch down the leg side off Stuart Broad.

Watson was given out lbw on 40 off Broad’s bowling but had the decision overturned on review.

Just like at Lord’s, after a decent start the runs dried up and a frustrated Watson lashed out at Swann and was caught in the deep by Finn.

In fact, Swann’s biggest aggravation of the innings came from his own teammates.

The spinner was left openly cursing Tim Bresnan for his poor attempt to catch Bailey in the deep off Swann’s bowling on 52.

Finn did his bit to stall Australia’s charge late in the innings with a brilliant run out to remove David Hussey (29).

After fumbling a push down the wicket from Hussey, the 2m tall bowler recovered and collected the ball on the slide and hit the stumps from side on.

Bresnan started finding reverse swing, knocking back Bailey’s middle stump and removing Matthew Wade (6) in the 47th over.

Eoin Morgan had a torrid time in the final overs fielding in the deep, dropping both Brett Lee (20no) and Mitchell Johnson (8no).