AUSTRALIA coach Justin Langer will leave England winless after a torrid six-match introduction to international cricket as more brutal batting from England sent a six-match T20 winning streak careering in to a brick wall in Birmingham.

Captain Aaron Finch was the only man in green and gold able to display any of the power needed to reel in England’s imposing total of 221 but the skipper’s sensational lone hand of 84 off just 40 balls, including six of his team’s 10 sixes, was a show without a supporting act as Australia fell 28 runs short.

Finch’s task was made even harder by the fact he only faced 11 balls in the opening six over power play and didn’t hit the first of his maximums until the 10th over.

He also slogged a mammoth 58 off English spinner Moeen Ali, finally getting on top of the man who has been the Aussie’s nemesis for the past fortnight.

Not much has gone right for Langer all tour including a historic 5-0 one-day series rout and again bowlers and most of the batsmen let him down with disappointing decision making and sub-par skill execution in the loss at Edgbaston.

A rapturous English crowd sang themselves silly with versions of “Sweet Caroline” and “Hey Jude” ringing out as they revelled in their team’s domination of the old enemy on a balmy summer night.

But it was same old tale for the tourists who loaded the team for the one-off clash with extra bowlers who failed to deliver after Finch won the toss and opted to bat.

That itself was a curious decision given England’s scoring prowess the past two weeks which included racking up a world record 481, when sent in, at Trent Bridge.

The match arguably turned in the fourth over of the English innings when Kane Richardson was smashed for 23 and a relatively subdued start gained momentum the Aussie bowlers never reeled in.

First-gamer Mitchell Swepson (2-37), given his Australian cap by Ricky Ponting pre-game, took two wickets and Ashton Agar only went for 39 runs. But everyone else conceded more than nine an over, including AJ Tye (0-37) who bowled well until Jonny Bairstow hit the final ball of the English innings for six.

One player can never be to blame for a cricket loss, but Aussie seamer Richardson went mighty close, conceding 59 runs, 46 of them in boundaries, as well as dropping a catch, misfielding more than once in a nightmare outing for the South Australian.

But then the Aussie batsmen, all except skipper Finch, failed to deliver the second innings punch that had been the T20 team’s trademark.

After the horror of the ODI series defeat, which took Australia’s record to 15 losses in its past 17 games, it was supposed to be better this time for the tourists who had skated to second in the world rankings with basically that same team turning out that had on six in a row.

The golden T20 run for Australia included chasing down 244 in New Zealand in February, ensuring hope was not lost when Jos Buttler (61), Alex Hales (49) and Jason Roy (44), the same old names, helped England pound 221 in their 20 overs.

But the bit-hitting Aussie top order never got going. D’Arcy Short slammed three consecutive fours, but got out,

Glenn Maxwell was slammed by commentator Kumar Sangakarra for “trying to be too smart” when he was bowled for just 10.

And all the “range hitting” Marcus Stoinis did the day before the match, when he smashed balls thrown at him well beyond the boundaries, came to nought when the white Kookaburra was actually bowled at him.

Stoinis smashed his second ball straight to Roy at deep mid-off to depart for 0, taking his tour tally to a disastrous 76. His last two innings, including the final one-day game in Manchester, were both second ball ducks, both times out to spin too.

It wasn’t good enough for a man backed in to play every match by the coach and it could be his last innings in green and gold for some time.

Buttler is the complete opposite, arguably the most in-form man in world white ball cricket and carried on his man-of-the-series form.

Schooled in the art of confidence by none other than Shane Warne at the Rajasthan Royals during a highly successful IPL season, Buttler said he’s embraced the opportunity to “go and express myself” with the bat, and he did just that.

Buttler opened the batting and carved out the quickest ever T20 half century for England, off just 22 balls, with six fours and four sixes in a display of power hitting the Aussie bowlers have become all too used to, and one they will try very quickly to forget.