What's new

England (126/2) thrash Australia (125 all out) by eight wickets in a one-sided encounter in Dubai

"NRR boost if ENG do it in 11 overs: 5.1" England's NRR is so high it could secure them qualification for the next three tournaments

:)))
 
man stop this tournament right away and hand over the trophy to England...there is no comparison even...brutality at its best.
 
Savage batting by England and against a top level bowling attack.

I'd imagine Pakistan would want to avoid facing England at all costs.
 
I'd like to think it will be England's batting against Pakistan's bowling, but England look too good
 
England look superhuman no contest rocked WI dismantled Bdesh and walloped Australia
 
So, are we getting knocked out of this tournament tomorrow or in the semis vs England??

Well, don't you dare say in Finals vs Pak! :afridi
 
So far England are waaay better that all the other teams. There is no weakness shown in any aspect of their game. Their batting is just power packed.:Torch_ani
 
So far England are waaay better that all the other teams. There is no weakness shown in any aspect of their game. Their batting is just power packed.:Torch_ani

Nah, Pakistan have been almost as good. We beat stronger teams. England have beat two minnows,. Australia was their first truly impressive win.
 
England is playing some wonderful cricket at the moment. They are sure to be in the final and I would say are red hot favorites right now. Far far ahead of everybody else.
 
England is a gun limited overs side but based on my cricket viewing experience over my entire life, sides that look Invincible and too good to fail ultimately mess up or choke in a real pressure game ie semi final or final, they are due a bad game
 
Highlights:

<div style="width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.250%;"><iframe src="https://streamable.com/e/u4t0w8" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="100%" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;"></iframe></div>
 
https://www.t20worldcup.com/news/2315227

England thumped arch-rivals Australia by eight wickets in their Super 12 game at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021.

England made a statement of intent at the expense of Australia, as they completed a thrashing to remain unbeaten in the Super 12 stage of the World Cup.

Jos Buttler led the carnage with the bat, smashing the Australian bowlers to all corners en route his 71* off just 32 balls, as England chased down 126 with eight wickets and 8.2 overs remaining.

Earlier, opting to bowl first, England made good use of the conditions to bundle Australia out for 125. Though the Aussies recovered from a horror start through Aaron Finch and the lower order, they failed to set up a total that would challenge the fiery England line-up.

Chris Woakes and Chris Jordan were the stars with the ball, accounting for five wickets between them, with Jordan named Player of the Match for figures of 3/17 in four overs.

As they have done in previous matches, England opted to start with spin at one end, going with Adil Rashid in the first over.

At the other end, Woakes did exactly what was expected of him: getting the early wickets in the Powerplay. Getting the ball to move off the seam, Woakes induced an outside edge from David Warner, who had just got back into form in the previous game against Sri Lanka.

Jordan replaced Rashid and struck immediately off his first ball, but the wicket itself was as much the fielder's as it was the bowler's. Stationed at mid-on, Woakes took a sensational one-handed catch tumbling backwards to dismiss Steve Smith.

The Chris Woakes show continued as the right-arm pacer trapped the dangerous Glenn Maxwell leg before wicket. Jordan and Woakes kept the lid on scoring in the Powerplay as Australia finished with just one boundary in the first six overs.

Rashid was brought back into the attack after the fielding restriction were lifted and made an instant impact, outfoxing Marcus Stonis with the googly to trap him in front of the stumps.

The spinners continued to stifle the batters as Australia limped to 41/4 at the halfway stage.

The pressure eventually paid off as Matthew Wade tried to hit Australia out of trouble, but ended up holing out to Jason Roy at long-on.

At the other end, Finch motored on, and gave the run-rate a much-needed push with three fours in two overs. Ashton Agar, who was brought into the XI in place of Mitchell Marsh, landed a couple of hefty blows that cleared the boundary as Australia enjoyed a fruitful period of play that fetched them 38 runs in three overs.

Once Agar perished, Cummins took Tymal Mills to the cleaners, smacking two sixes off his first two balls to take Australia's score past 100.

Jordan, however, ensured that Finch and Cummins don't inflict more damage, scalping their wickets off consecutive deliveries while giving away just two runs off the penultimate over.

Mills took a wicket in the final over, but was also England's most expensive bowler with figures of 2/45, while the rest of the four bowlers went for under 6.

England knocked off half the target inside the Powerplay as Jason Roy and Buttler took the attack to the Australian bowlers.

They hit at least a boundary every over, finishing with 66 inside the first six, the highest Powerplay score in the World Cup so far.

After hitting a four each in the first two overs, they took the aerial route with Roy pulling Cummins over the boundary while Buttler smashed Agar for a big one.

Brought back for the final over of the fielding restrictions, Mitchell Starc was taken to the cleaners by Buttler, who smoked two effortless sixes.

There was some joy for Australia as they finally broke the partnership through Adam Zampa, who trapped Roy in front of the stumps. The wicket did not slow Buttler down though: he smacked Starc for two more fours before bringing up his fifty with a massive six.

Agar got the better of Dawid Malan with the arm ball before Jonny Bairstow and Buttler smashed Zampa for three sixes in the next over to bring the required runs down to single digits. Bairstow hit the winning runs for England as they got home with 50 balls to spare.
 
Well that was an absolute joy to watch, and was about as one sided as it gets in an international cricket match that does not involve an associate member.

I am not sure if England will win this tournament, because they might slip up in a knockout situation at some point, but they certainly look incredibly strong at the moment.

Either way, winning a big game against their rival Australia by such a decisive margin in a global event will be a great and irreducible memory for English fans to take away from this tournament.
 
England delivered a complete team performance to thump Australia by eight wickets and stamp their authority on the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021.

Eoin Morgan’s side chose to field and took four wickets in the powerplay for the second time in the tournament, reducing Australia to 21 for four with Chris Woakes the chief tormentor.

Due solely to 44 from skipper Aaron Finch, Australia set a target of 126 which England overhauled with ease, thanks to an incredible display of power and poise from Jos Buttler.

Buttler clubbed a brutal 71 from 32 balls, with five fours and five sixes to lead England home with 8.2 overs remaining.

Despite opting against using the off-spin of Moeen Ali up front as they did against the West Indies and Bangladesh, England sent Australia spiralling to nine for two.

David Warner couldn’t continue the form he showed against Sri Lanka, nicking the insistent seam of Chris Woakes to Buttler with the eighth ball of the game.

With the first delivery of the second over, Chris Jordan got one to stop on Steven Smith outside off stump and he looped a catch to that man Woakes at mid-on.

The early carnage was a mirror of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup semi-finals in 2019, when a Woakes-inspired England reduced their rivals to 14 for three at Edgbaston.

No batter strikes at a higher rate against a single opponent than Aaron Finch, who started the game having taken England for 550 runs at 175.

The opener was given nothing to work with after he hit an overpitched Rashid delivery for four in the first over.

Finch and Matthew Wade embarked on a painstaking rebuild, faced with leg-spin from Rashid and Liam Livingstone which is far from the favourite fare of the Australian captain.

The busy keeper-batter struck Australia’s second boundary of the innings in the 10th over, cutting Rashid for four, then flaying Tymal Mills to the third man fence.

The fifth wicket stand was at 30 when Livingstone followed three quicker deliveries by giving one some air, forcing Wade to chip to Jason Roy at long-on, departing for 18 to make it 51 for five.

Finch remained amid the chaos and took a liking to Mills, hitting him for back-to-back boundaries and then throwing his hands at a wide one from Jordan for four through point.

Woakes returned and conceded 20 runs in the 17th over, his last. Ashton Agar carted him for six over the leg side and then over long-on as the Australians rallied.

But another clump of wickets fell in a frenetic spell. First, Agar pulled Mills to midwicket before Pat Cummins struck successive sixes.

Jordan then got the crucial wicket of Finch as Jonny Bairstow dived forward to take a brilliant catch at long-off, then Cummins was clean bowl by a yorker for 12.

England made a blistering start to the chase with Buttler and Roy ruthlessly in picking up anything slightly short of a length.

Roy made a trademark stride down the pitch and clubbed Cummins for a 92-metre six over wide long-on and as if to try to match him, Buttler sent an Agar delivery 91 metres over long-off.

A brutal display of hitting from Buttler had only just begun, nearly launching Mitchell Starc out of the Dubai International Stadium twice with towering sixes over long-on.

Starc went for 18 in his first over and was the target again as Buttler drove him over mid-off and then smacked him over midwicket.

Then the 31-year-old took aim at Zampa, whose leg-spin then disappeared down the arc and was reverse swept for four to make it 97-1 off the last ball of the ninth.

Malan nicked Agar behind but it was one-way traffic late on, Bairstow smacking two sixes off Zampa before hitting the winning run to point, wrapping up a superb victory.

England sit top of Group 1 with three wins from three, while Australia are third.

Scores in Brief

England beat Australia at Dubai International Stadium by eight wickets
Australia 125 all out in 20 overs (Aaron Finch 44; Chris Jordan 3-17, Chris Woakes 2-23)
England 126/2 in 11.4 overs (Jos Buttler 71 not out; Ashton Agar 1-15)
Player of the Match: Chris Jordan (England)
 
Eoin Morgan speaking to the press:


Q. I guess you enjoyed that?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah, that's a pretty convincing win. Obviously starting the tournament as well as we did in the first two games, not easy games, but I thought the guys played really well.

Today coming into it, you'd expect a really tough test, and we always do when we play against Australia. I thought we bowled, again, brilliantly and fielded brilliantly and put Australia under pressure, created opportunities earlier probably than we have done in the past. But it just goes to show how well that we have bowled and adapted to conditions.

Even not letting them get away to a score that might have been a bit more of a tricky chase say 140 or 150, I thought the bowlers did a great job.


Q. Has Jos ever hit the ball more sweetly than that?

EOIN MORGAN: There's actually a game that we were talking about while he was going bananas out there back in 2016 where he scored I think it was a 43 or 46, scored a hundred against Pakistan here in a 50-over game where very similarly he just seemed to hit the middle of the bat over and over again. He's obviously one of the best players in the world, and when he comes off like today, it's very difficult to stop him.


Q. Three wins, all chasing. Would you like to win a game batting first?

EOIN MORGAN: I think we're going to have to throughout the tournament. We've spoken about it, what might change, if anything. The thing that I liked about the way that we played today was conditions didn't change, dew didn't come in. We continued to try and play our way and not try and pace our run unless we get pegged back, still try and come hard, and guys did that.


Q. You've made it look easy. Does this England side have anyone to fear?

EOIN MORGAN: Here I think every game that we go into we pay every opposition the amount of respect that they deserve regardless of the name of the country on their shirt. I think that's why we can perform probably more consistent than we have done in the past.

I think sort of moving forward, it's always a matter of looking at ourselves and testing ourselves to try and continue to get better as opposed to looking at opposition.


Q. Just on yourself, you've only had to face seven bowlers all tournament. Do you think that's a measure of how good your captaincy has been in the field?

EOIN MORGAN: Obviously captaincy is only reflected on performance of the players within the side. We've had a really good run of it so far.

I think the whole of our top seven, eight guys we will need at some stage. We go to Sharjah in two days' time and then again I think it's five days' time on Saturday, which we'll probably be taken more out of our comfort zone than we have been both here and Abu Dhabi.

Again, another challenge that we're looking forward to.


Q. Is the rotation on your mind over the next two games?

EOIN MORGAN: No.


Q. What about the decision on not using Moeen with the ball today? Any thoughts on that?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah. It's just a reflection on my captaincy. The matchups at the time didn't suit. They do suit for some of the Australian players, but they were already dismissed, and I thought that worked really well. Moeen is quite a relaxed guy and knows the role that he plays both before the game and during the game. That's always communicated across all of the bowling unit. We try and adapt and talk about what might work on the wicket against different players, and today unfortunately he wasn't needed.


Q. Even though you play Australia quite a lot, I don't imagine you get those kind of results very often against them. When you're out there in the middle and it's all going so well, can you stop and enjoy it at all? Can you kind of think about how much fun you're having?

EOIN MORGAN: Oh, I think as hard as I try, I struggle to, just knowing that you're playing against such a strong side, and they bat really deeply. When Finchy bats with the guys down the order, there's always that element of you know how much he can hurt you if he gets going and the difference of one over can be the difference in a game.

I thoroughly enjoyed the chase, and I'm enjoying myself now, but at the time I'm trying to maneuver things that restricts the total that we're chasing to the minimum.


Q. Just on Jos quickly, down the years people have called him a freak and genius and all these things. We've just seen a fierce performance. Is he taking the game to a new level do you think? Do you think that he's showing us things that even surprise you?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah, absolutely. I think he's certainly one of our players -- there are a few of them, that are at the forefront of change in the game. Like he's one of the best players in the game but yet he's still trying to improve his game and get better against every single bowler that he faces. It's not just targeting bowlers that might suit him, it's every bowler. When you've got guys that are at the forefront of change within the game and like positive change, taking-the-game-forward type stuff, it says a lot about the guy.


Q. Given the way you started the tournament, have you reassessed your opinion about being second favourites, or do you still think that's the case?

EOIN MORGAN: I still think that's the case. Obviously chasing in all three games has its advantages. I think the way that the bowlers have bowled has been outstanding. The favourites in the tournament have only played one game. You can't just judge one team on one particular game. They probably have a lot more to show as conditions probably get tougher.


Q. Could you just speak please about Chris Woakes's spell with the new ball and his performances across the tournament?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah, Woakesy has been excellent. I think over the years his strengths have been epitomized tonight. He's one of the best new ball bowlers in white ball cricket in the world. He's accurate. His pace is up. He's very confident in his all-around skills. It's not just about hitting a line and length or trying to get the ball to move.

In our first game that we played here he bowled a beautiful slower ball to dismiss Evin Lewis. The growth within his game is huge even though he's been right on top of it over the last four or five years.


Q. Did you get flashbacks at all to the 2019 World Cup semifinal, the way that game started, especially Chris Woakes doing the job early and then even with Jason and Jos doing the job with the bat so aggressively?

EOIN MORGAN: Not really. Just different challenges. I think our record at Edgbaston is incredible and had been in the lead-in to that World Cup for the last four years. We take a lot of confidence playing at that venue and on that wicket. Obviously a different challenge here against a side who's trying to adapt as hard as we are to conditions.

Just a different feeling with the two different games.


Q. Most matches have been low-scoring, around like 130s, 140s. You have a better idea about the pitch; do you foresee some more runs being scored, especially when we are going to the semifinals and finals, maybe 170, 180? Do you see that?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah, I think that's a good question. I think with the semifinals and finals being in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and then Dubai, you'd probably foresee the average scores being probably around par, so between 160 and 170, maybe a little bit higher depending if the dew comes in. But as far as Sharjah goes, we haven't seen a really flat wicket at Sharjah. So I think it'll just continue to be challenging.


Q. From here to Sharjah, I know it's early, but how much more confident are you for that venue especially, the way your spinners are bowling?

EOIN MORGAN: Yeah, I actually don't think that you just have to have good spinners to do well at Sharjah. I think you need to have good seamers, as well. During the IPL we sort of did both. We had two really good spinners but also we had good quicks in amongst it, and the wickets that we did play on had variable bounce that actually favoured the seamers a little bit more.

Within our England squad, we do have options that we will look to use in trying to adapt both against Sri Lanka and South Africa.


Q. There was a bit of a suggestion tonight that a bit of a limiting factor for Australia might be that they haven't played a whole bunch of T20 cricket together even though they're made up of individually talented players. To think about your own team, is the familiarity with roles coming into a tournament, is that particularly important?

EOIN MORGAN: I think roles in any side is very important. I think the only time that we've had a full strength T20 side over the last two and a half years was in March in India for five games. Apart from that, we haven't had a full-strength squad out.
 
Aaron Finch :

==

What was your take on that game in the end? Was it just complete dominance by England, or did you have a bad day?

AARON FINCH: They completely dominated us from the start. I think anytime that you go a handful down in the powerplay, and anytime we felt like we started to get a partnership, we just kept losing a wicket, and it just meant we had to try and sit in longer to hopefully get to a total of around 150 and see if that would be competitive. As it was, we probably needed a few more.


You've obviously played a lot of cricket against England down the years. Have you come up against a team as strong as this one?

AARON FINCH: They're very good. They're very well-rounded. They've got a lot of bases covered in terms of their quicks, spin, death bowling, and their batting is as powerful as anything.

I mean, when Rashid is batting at No. 10, you know you've got a pretty good lineup. So yeah, they're a dominant side, no doubt. We've seen that for the last couple of years. But yeah, we had a bad day, as well.


Jos Buttler's performance, where would you put that one? It looked pretty special.

AARON FINCH: Yeah, outstanding knock. He struck the ball cleanly. We knew they were going to come hard, as well. Yeah, it was just one of those things that you have to keep pressing when you've got the ball in your hand, and yeah, didn't quite go our way.


I guess Mitch Starc hasn't been hit onto the top deck too often in back-to-back deliveries.

AARON FINCH: I'm not sure. No, I don't think so, but yeah, I'm not sure.


Steve Smith, is he okay? He was holding his groin; did he have a twinge or something?

AARON FINCH: No, he'll be fine. He didn't mention anything, so I'm sure that he'll be fine. We're all getting a bit older, aren't we.


Today was not your day, and England completely dominated in all departments. What was the turning point? Where did you guys go wrong?

AARON FINCH: Oh, I think obviously the powerplay -- they bowled very well, put us on the back foot, and then we were under pressure to try and get to a competitive total. All credit to England in that powerplay, the way that they squeezed us, kept taking wickets, which obviously when you go in with specialist batters that probably is going to leave you a little bit short at times.


Shane Warne earlier said that he was disappointed about your selection of playing Steve Smith and not playing Marsh, and also sending Maxwell in the powerplay. Do you agree on his views, and also guide me through the dew factor because Mohammad Nabi last night, he also said that the dew factor did not come into play. How did the dew factor play today?

AARON FINCH: Yeah, the dew came in a little bit towards the end there, but I don't think it would have made a huge amount of difference.

Maxwell going in in the powerplay, when you've only got six specialist batters, you're backing your top six to get the job done, so there's no issues there. Maxy has done extremely well in the past; he's as destructive as anyone if he gets through the powerplay, so that's okay.

And Smith instead of Marsh, that's just subjective, isn't it. Everyone has got a different opinion on it, and that's okay. We thought we picked a team to win the game tonight.


Picking up a little bit on that, can you explain what was the rationale behind leaving Mitch Marsh out, and how did you feel like that balance worked out?

AARON FINCH: Oh, clearly when you go three down in the powerplay, it's not an ideal scenario when you go in with that structured team. The reason Agar was in there was we felt it was a really good matchup for England. His ability to bowl in the powerplay and through the middle overs in the past against England has been really good. We just thought that that was the way to go tonight. It was not a reflection on how Mitch has been going at all. It was purely just a matchup thing for this game. Yeah, it was unfortunate we didn't get the job done.


Just more generally with this team, is there a sense of it's still kind of gelling? Obviously it's a very different team to the one that you took to the West Indies and that obviously played in Bangladesh, as well. Is it still you're kind of figuring out how you work together?

AARON FINCH: I don't think so. I think the majority of us have played a lot of cricket together over the years, whether it's over different formats. I think that happens anyway. No is the simple answer to that.


How do you turn things around? When you take a thumping like that, how does it not become a psychological thing going into a game in four days' time?

AARON FINCH: I think we've got a couple of days off to refresh and recharge. The boys have been training really well and deserve a couple of days off. It was a quick turnaround from the Sri Lankan game to today, so recharge the batteries, and then a couple of really strong days of training, and then we'll be back into it.

Yeah, there's a lot of experience in the group. I'm not concerned about carrying baggage into a different game against a totally different opposition.


Did that result cast your mind back at all to that 2019 World Cup semifinal when England and Chris Woakes specifically sort of got on top of you right from the off?

AARON FINCH: It hadn't until right now, so thanks for that, mate.

Yeah, he's a fantastic bowler. When there's anything in the wicket in particular, he's a beautiful bowler, presents the seam and can seam it both ways. He challenged both sides of the bat tonight like he did in that game at Birmingham.

Yeah, if we come up against him again, we're going to need a bit of a better plan.


You mentioned the plan there; is there anything specifically you can do differently in that situation, or is it a case of saying, too good?

AARON FINCH: I think each individual player will have their own plan, and that's probably not going to change a huge amount. For me personally, I tried to bat out of my crease to try to take that LBW out of play, and yeah, it was just one of those nights where Davy got a decent one early, Smithy toe-ended one and Maxy missed a pickup off his pads which you'd generally expect him to hit.

That can happen in the powerplay when you're looking to be aggressive. Yeah, just blown away though.


Can you tell us about what's happening with batting first in more than 10 games hurts the team scoring runs? Are you picking up something why it's happening? I'm asking about all the teams, not specifically about Australia, but are you picking up something?

AARON FINCH: I think with the wicket they've been reasonably dry, and then once the lights take effect, even when there hasn't been dew, it feels like the wicket is skidding on a little bit more. That's all it is.

I think teams have probably been a little bit more cautious in the first six overs when they bat first to try and get through the back end of the innings, but yeah, batting second seems to have been the way to go. The toss has been really important in this tournament so far.


I just wanted to ask you what do you think went wrong in today's game as Australia started pretty well in the tournament, but right now you guys didn't play well in this game? And also there is one thought that Australia are not a good team in T20 as compared to the ODIs. What do you think about that?

AARON FINCH: Well, it wasn't too long ago that we were No. 1 in the world, so I still think that we're a very good team in T20 international cricket. Everyone has got their own opinion, so that doesn't really matter. What matters is results. That's fine if you think that we're a really ordinary side, that's okay.

What was the first part of the question? Oh, we got 125 on a wicket that -- probably after the first five overs the wicket seemed to die down and play a little bit better. The fact that we were three down in them five overs probably just made it -- we just had to hang in the game a little bit longer than we would have liked. We weren't able to be as proactive.

Yeah, whenever you get blown away in the powerplay, it tends to happen a little bit like that.


I just thought I'd ask about your next two games against Bangladesh and the West Indies. Obviously the results didn't really go your way earlier this year. Does that count for anything, and do you kind of look at these two games as basically must-win?

AARON FINCH: Oh, they're definitely must-wins. I think the net run rate took a hammering tonight. Yeah, so we're going to have to be at our best again.

Bangladesh are a very, very good side and so are the West Indies, a lot of firepower in their team, a lot of experience, so yeah, absolutely. It's must-win from now on, but we're looking forward to it.
 
Our performance against England suddenly doesnt look as bad as it felt when watching it live at the stadium
 
This is what thrashing really means. Chasing 120 in bloody 12 overs.

Pakistan chasing India softly in 18-19 overs was not really a thrashing.
 
This is what thrashing really means. Chasing 120 in bloody 12 overs.

Pakistan chasing India softly in 18-19 overs was not really a thrashing.

We will never thrash anyone with Babar and Rizwan as our openers

They want to milk singles in the powerplay against spinners
 
We will never thrash anyone with Babar and Rizwan as our openers

They want to milk singles in the powerplay against spinners

They should just be a little bit more aggressive though. Appreciate they are different type of players but I would ask them to show more intent and not leave too much to do for Asif / Malik.
 
They should just be a little bit more aggressive though. Appreciate they are different type of players but I would ask them to show more intent and not leave too much to do for Asif / Malik.

Well, everyone asked for this combination to open for Pakistan

We have made our bed, we need to sleep in it
 
With the a few exceptions, Australia have overall got a pretty average IT20 team. It was a pathetic show yesterday and a very boring match as well. I found no source of entertainment in it, barring the stunning catch by Woakes.
 
Why is playing Steve Smith an obligation? Why must he be played? He´s clearly not a T20 player, why then? Drop him, for God´s sake!
 
Back
Top