England are backing their "phenomenal" batting lineup to continue playing with aggression after losing to Australia in their first match of the Twenty20 tri-series.
Eoin Morgan's side were unable to build a substantial partnership as Glenn Maxwell (103 not out) powered the hosts to a five-wicket victory in Hobart onWednesday night. England were left to regret a string of soft dismissals with Dawid Malan (50) the only significant run-scorer. Australia chased down their target of 156 with nine balls to spare.
The sides will meet again tonight at the MCG with England paceman Chris Jordan confident of a better showing from the likes of Jason Roy, Alex Hales and Jos Buttler.
"Our batting lineup is phenomenal," he said. "We do play a positive brand of cricket, we do play an aggressive brand of cricket. We try to take the positive option as much as possible.
"Those things happen sometimes but I think over a period of time, we'll have more success than failure.
"Even with that batting collapse, we still managed to put up 156 and make it a competitive total. Imagine when we are going and we don't get a collapse - maybe we will end up with 200, 210."
Seventh in the ICC T20 rankings, Australia have made a perfect start to the tri-series with victories over fourth-ranked England and second-ranked New Zealand.
They have achieved that despite stand-in captain David Warner being in something of a white-ball form slump which began during Australia's 4-1 ODI series loss to England.
