Year Review: Australian team's performance in 2015

6. Limited overs series with England and Ireland

After the Ashes series, Australia travelled to Belfast to play a single ODI with Ireland which they won by 23 runs. They returned to England for the limited overs series. Australia made up for the loss in the Test series by winning the 5-match ODI series 3-2. However, Australia would want to forget about the only T20I they played at Cardiff before the ODI series which they lost closely by 5 runs. In the high scoring close contest, the Aussies failed to chase the target of 183 set by England with the help of half-centuries from Moeen Ali and Eoin Morgan. While chasing, Steve Smith’s 92* and Glenn Maxwell’s 44 put the Aussies in a strong position but the tail-enders could not handle Ben Stokes in the last over and failed to finish the job.