LON­DON – Bar­ba­di­ans Jofra Archer and Ja­cob Bethell made con­tri­bu­tions as Eng­land fought back to lev­el their best-of-five One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Aus­tralia with a mam­moth 186-run vic­to­ry Fri­day.

Af­ter los­ing the toss and be­ing sent in to bat in a rain-af­fect­ed con­test, Eng­land piled up 312 for five af­ter the match was re­duced to 39 overs.

They were led by cap­tain Har­ry Brooks, who slammed 87 from 58 balls, while Liam Liv­ingston struck an un­beat­en 62 from 27 balls and Ben Duck­ett made 63.

The 20-year-old Bethell fin­ished un­beat­en on 12.

Fast bowler Archer then pro­duced the best spell of his lat­est come­back, tak­ing 2-33 from sev­en overs, as Eng­land skit­tled Aus­tralia out for a pal­try 126 in 24.4 overs to lev­el the se­ries 2-2.

Archer bowled Mitchell Marsh for 28 and had Glenn Maxwell caught be­hind for two to help rout the vis­i­tors.

Mot­thew Potts (4-38) and Bry­don Carse (3-36), al­so wrecked hav­oc on the Aus­tralians.

The fifth and fi­nal ODI will be at Bris­ton on Sun­day.

CMC