Cummins needs support: Maxwell

Allrounder Glenn Maxwell says Australia's bowlers need to lift and support young speedster Pat Cummins in the final of the one-day international series in Manchester tonight (7.30pm AEST).

Cummins has been outstanding so far in the one-day series, taking 12 wickets in four matches, but not even a career-best 4-49 could prevent England from squaring the ledger in Leeds at two-all and forcing a decider at Old Trafford.

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England chased down 300 for the first time against Australia on Friday, due largely to Eoin Morgan's sublime 92 and a visiting attack that conceded 34 fours and six sixes.

The performance at Headingley illustrated the dramatic changes the ODI bowling group has undergone since March, featuring only one member from the World Cup final winning outfit – Maxwell.

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Australia's champion bowling attack hunted in tandem with devastating effect, led by player of the tournament Mitchell Starc, but with the lethal left-armer rested after a gruelling year where he's played all but one match for his country, it's been left to Cummins to carry the workload and Maxwell says he needs help.

"It'd be nice to have two of him."

"He's been awesome, a guy bowling 90mph (145kph) consistently for you the whole way through – and he seems to be hitting the lengths we've been talking about.

"I think the rest of our attack is just missing at the moment.

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"Unfortunately, the partnership bowling we built up during the World Cup and through the last 18 months we haven't really hit that this tournament.

"We seem to have bowled one good over, one sloppy over, one good over, one sloppy over.

"And it's different people at different times, myself included. I've been guilty of that."

"It just doesn't seem like we're getting any momentum with our bowling.

"Our batting seems to be (effective) – guys are hitting the ball really well and we're finding ways to get good scores – but it just feels like we haven't quite clicked in the partnerships department with our bowling."

"It's all good having a guy that's bowling 90mph and beating the bat regularly and creating chances, but if they can see him out and score off the other guys it's a bit null and void I think.

"We've just got to have some guys backing him up and helping him out, because at the moment it's sort of a one-man show with the bowling, and we're scraping together with the batting."

Australia won the first two matches of the series but the second victory at Lord's came at a cost.

David Warner (thumb), Nathan Coulter-Nile (hamstring) and Shane Watson (calf) were all sent home with series-ending injuries, with the tourists forced to call up a trio of Victorians in John Hastings, Peter Handscomb and Aaron Finch.

The loss of three first choice players, and the experience of Watson and Warner, has proven the difference in the last two matches that has seen England surge back to level the series.

It now means captain Steve Smith is the most senior member of the squad with 62 ODI matches, who was incredibly not in Australia's strongest one-day XI at the start of last summer.

Maxwell says it's now up to the players in the squad who do have some experience to step up and inspire the new members of the squad, even if it means 'faking' it.

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"We've lost a lot of experience throughout the group and lost a lot of experience since the World Cup,"

"I think if you look at the World Cup squad and the team we took throughout those games there was a lot of experience, a lot of games all over the world.

"We've had a few debutants throughout this series. It's been tough trying to replace them (injured players) … but those new guys have also brought a bit of fresh air into the group and also upped the ante at training.

"It's been nice to have those guys around, but the experience you lose you can't really replicate that anywhere, unless these (new) guys get games under their belt.

"It's about the guys that have played 40 -60 games – I think that's the highest for guys in the team at the moment – we've got to try and almost 'fake' that experience, and try and lead those (new) guys and make it easier for them, because it's obviously a tough series to start when you lose those (experienced) guys."

"We've just got to find a way to get through this last game – and hopefully win it."