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Pressure was the talk of Melbourne ahead of Australia and England’s crunch meeting at the MCG on Friday.

The winner of the huge game in Group 1 of the ICC Men’s T20I World Cup will effectively have knocked out the other, with two defeats likely to be terminal to chances of qualifying for the semi-finals of the tournament.

Hosts and defending champions Australia were pummeled in their opening group game, but are back on a high after Marcus Stoinis inspired a win over Sri Lanka with a brutal display of hitting last time out.

In contrast, England followed up their winning start with a lacklustre showing against Ireland, a performance that resulted in defeat on DLS Method to leave Jos Buttler and his side needing a big run of wins to avoid leaving the World Cup at the Super 12 stage.

“We know we have made a mistake and have put more pressure on us,” Buttler admitted. “But certainly, if you needed a game to get going then England v Australia is one of those.”

England’s equation is relatively simple. Beat Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, and their qualification hopes remain in their own hands. Lose any of those games and a group-stage exit is possible, if not probable.

A similar scenario lies ahead for Australia, although their final two group games come against the lower-ranked Afghanistan and Ireland, matches that the hosts would expect to win.

So rather than results, the talk of pressure directed toward the Australia camp was focussed on the role and selection of captain Aaron Finch.

The opener endured a tricky evening against Sri Lanka, scratching his way to 31* from 42 balls in a manner that has prompted further discussions about his place in the side.

Read: Record-breaking knock from Stoinis in a partnership of extraordinary contrasts
“I don’t feel any more pressure than I ever have, the only pressure is the expectation you put on yourself,” Finch said ahead of the England game.

“Everyone’s got their opinion, that’s fine. I’ve got no issue with what people’s personal opinions are, I don’t read or listen to any of it.”

Predicted Playing XI

Australia

Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood

England

Jos Buttler (c), Alex Hales, Dawid Malan, Ben Stokes, Liam Livingstone, Harry Brook, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood


Key Players

Jos Buttler: Since finding a tempo to his T20 batting, Buttler has gone from a dangerous hitter to a calculated batter who adapts to game situations and maximises boundary opportunities, keeping the strike rate quite a bit above par. An aggressive Alex Hales aids Buttler's new mantra at the other end, and potentially helps him get those big knocks for England.

Glenn Maxwell: He has been stuck in a rut of late. Maxwell is averaging only 16.53 in T20Is this year and his strike rate has also gone down to 120.97, which is quite low by his standards. He has to get back to the top of his game soon in order to help his team get through to the semi-finals, and showed positive signs during a destructive cameo against Sri Lanka.

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Has the potential to be the game of the tournament. Loser goes home and that will be England. NZ is finding it's way into the SF and possibly final.
 
Looking forward to this. England need to bounce back hard. Am sure they will.
 
With Barmy Army for this game specially depressed after Pakistan's horror show hopefully Eng will make us happy
 
Brett Lee writing for ICC:

It is always special when England and Australia lock horns and this time will be no different.

The two squads will have ringed the date in their diaries as soon as the schedule for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup was announced.

I certainly did when I was playing because some of my best - and worst - moments on a cricket field came in matches between these two teams.

The key is always to put the weight of history and the emotion of the rivalry to one side. The focus has to be on yourself and the other 10 guys trying to win the game. I only played against England once at the T20 World Cup, in the first-ever tournament in South Africa back in 2007.

We were really still figuring out how the format worked and having lost to Zimbabwe in the opening game, it’s fair to say we were fired up heading to Cape Town. We managed to dismiss England for 135 and chase it down inside 15 overs. Although we went on to lose the semi-final, it was nice to put our stamp on the first tournament.

All of the 10 wickets we took that day were from quick bowlers and the role of seamers in the T20 format has really evolved since then. When it came in we thought it was all about the quickies, that spinners would just be lined up and hit out of the attack.

It didn’t turn out that way with slow bowlers in fashion for much of the last decade. Pace on the ball in the shorter forms of the game has been seen as a negative. I think things have come full circle and here in Australia at this T20 World Cup we are seeing proper quick bowling come back into fashion.

Just look at these two teams for starters.

I have been really impressed with the way Josh Hazelwood has grown as a white-ball bowler and the way he has got to grips with all these variations you need to succeed. We know what Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc can do - as a trio they are a bowling attack that will strike fear in any batting line-up, including England’s.

Mark Wood is the man of the moment for England. He is one of the sharpest in the world when he’s fit and firing and Australia will have to find a way to nullify his threat. Conditions in Australia obviously favour these guys - but look at last year, when Australia’s pace attack took them all the way in UAE and Oman.

It's clear that this is a must-win game for both sides.

You can’t afford to lose twice in the Super 12s and Australia have already gone down to New Zealand, and England to Ireland in a rain-affected match. The momentum is with Australia after they pulled it out of the fire against Sri Lanka and they will hope to carry that through at the MCG.

England need to find a way to get back on the horse quickly after the Ireland game and this will be a tough test of their resilience. I think whichever team wins this will be hard to stop for the rest of the tournament. It’s going to be a cracker.

ICC
 
It is hoped the showers will clear in time for the big clash between arch-rivals Australia and England to proceed at the same ground from 7pm (local time).
 
18:30 Local Time, 07:30 GMT, 13:00 IST: Toss has been delayed. And there's still steady rain. "The rain is starting to come little bit stronger right now. It's got to stop raining for a little bit of time as well because the ground is very damp and quite moist under foot. Everyone's got their fingers crossed. Right now, it's looking doom and gloom," says Shane Watson. There'll be an inspection at 19:30 local, about an hour from now.
 
Good analysis from Sky

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6.56 pm Big cheers go up at the MCG as one of the covers protecting the bowler's runup has been peeled back.

Source Cricinfo
 
7.08 pm Here's Alex Malcolm with an update: "It has stopped raining. The radar looks clear for a little while at least. The ground staff have pulled off the run-up covers at both. The main covers stay on. A lot of standing water has come off the covers. It is very wet on the outfield."


Source cricinfo
 
If it's a shortened game then it'll be a massive advantage to England..
 
Damn, last thing I want to see is the Ind match highlights while waiting for this game. :sarf_facepalm
 
It's raining again per latest update. Match looks highly unlikely and outfield reported was very wet when it wasn't raining a bit earlier
 
Multiple inspection going on no rain but wet outfield ICC sucks really cant even cover entire field looks like a mini shootout
 
Another wash out. Might be good for both teams in the end.
 
They kept inspecting when there was no rain. They were probably waiting for rain to arrive to get done with this.
 
So in the same ground they are keeping 2 back to back matches. Maximising the chances that if it is raining at a venue, not one but two matches will get washed out.
 
Match abandoned; points shared

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MenInG said:
Match abandoned; points shared

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The Group 1 contest between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground was called off after persistant rain.

Rain stayed away in the build-up to the contest, raising hopes that the teams could take to the field and the action would get underway. But just before a scheduled inspection, the showers returned leading to the match being called off. This was the second match of the day in Melbourne to be abandoned without a ball being bowled after Afghanistan v Ireland.

The two teams share points, which has massive implications for Group 1. New Zealand stay on top with 3 points, courtesy of a better net run rate. They are followed by England (3 points), Ireland (3 points), Australia (3 points), Sri Lanka (2 points) and Afghanistan (2 points).

The next match from the group is scheduled to be played between New Zealand and Sri Lanka tomorrow at the Sydney Cricket Ground, with the winners having a chance to cement their position at the top of the standings in Group 1.
 
Group of death... no idea who will get through this group right now. Hope rain stays away for rest of the matches
 
Pakistan better start doing the rain dance. Forget qualifying, that may be our best chance at a point!
 
ICC is such a poorly run organization that they can't even organize a tournament.

Is it unknown that cricket in October in Australia is rare?

And scheduling back to back matches in the same stadium, so that if one is washed out, in all probability other one is going to be washed out too?

Is it to maxmise ticket sales in bigger stadiums?

The farce that os happening in Australia right now, it would be a justified result if the Final is washed out.
 
B2B matches also makes logistics simple , reduces financial expenses, plus we are still in pandemic so reduces risk of contamination when teams don't have to move around much.
 
cricketjoshila said:
ICC is such a poorly run organization that they can't even organize a tournament.

Is it unknown that cricket in October in Australia is rare?

And scheduling back to back matches in the same stadium, so that if one is washed out, in all probability other one is going to be washed out too?

Is it to maxmise ticket sales in bigger stadiums?

The farce that os happening in Australia right now, it would be a justified result if the Final is washed out.
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The risk of rain in most of Australia in October/November is pretty much the same as December/January.
 
AamchiMumbaikar said:
B2B matches also makes logistics simple , reduces financial expenses, plus we are still in pandemic so reduces risk of contamination when teams don't have to move around much.
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In that case should just pick one ground which is in the driest city and hold all the matches there.
 
I think it benefited Australia more than England.

England are a better T20 team than Australia.
 
cricketjoshila said:
ICC is such a poorly run organization that they can't even organize a tournament.

Is it unknown that cricket in October in Australia is rare?

And scheduling back to back matches in the same stadium, so that if one is washed out, in all probability other one is going to be washed out too?

Is it to maxmise ticket sales in bigger stadiums?

The farce that os happening in Australia right now, it would be a justified result if the Final is washed out.
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Unusual amount of rain for October. Climate change has kicked in. Will be difficult to schedule tournaments anywhere
 
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