He was back to the pavilion after being caught by Livingstone (1/15).Ĭummins then clobbered the first two balls he faced for maximums to give Australia momentum.īut Jordan returned to remove Finch and Cummins in successive balls. Wade, however, perished in the 12th over after holing out at long-on to Jason Roy off Liam Livingstone.įinch smashed back-to-back boundaries to cream 10 runs off Tymal Mills, before picking up another boundary off Jordan in the next over.Īgar then exploded in the 17th over as he pulled one from Woakes over deep backward square leg before walloping him for another six over deep midwicket to score 20 runs of the over. Scots dismissed for just 85 off 17. Matthew Wade (18) then joined skipper Finch, taking Australia to 41 for four in 10 overs. In Pictures: India crush Scotland by eight wickets in T20 World Cup to remain in semi-final contention.
Leg-spinner Adil Rashid (1/19), who had opened the bowling for England, then returned to trap Marcus Stoinis LBW with a googly as Australia were tottering at 21 for 4 in 6.1 overs. He traps Maxwell in front of the stumps with a delivery that moved in late.Īustralia are three down. Woakes then trapped Maxwell in front of wicket as Australia slumped to 15 for 3 in 4 overs. Woakes was in action early on as he induced a nick from Warner to deal the first blow and then pulled off a sensational catch at mid-on to remove Steve Smith off Jordan’s bowling. Australia managed to get rid of Roy and Dawid Malan (8) but it made no difference as Jonny Bairstow joined Buttler in sending their opponents on a leather hunt.īairstow smashed two sixes off Adam Zampa during his unbeaten 10-ball 16 run innings as England reached 126 for 2 to win the match with 50 balls to spare.Ī blazing half-century from Jos Buttler ? #T20WorldCup | #AUSvENG | /HAhNPcQ9sYĮngland thus completed a hat-trick of wins, while Australia suffered their first loss of the tournament after beating South Africa and Sri Lanka in their previous two games.Įarlier, Chris Woakes (2/23) and Chris Jordan (3/17) rattled Australia’s top-order by removing opener David Warner (1), Steve Smith (1) and Glenn Maxwell (6) in the first four overs before skipper Aaron Finch (44 off 49 balls) resurrected the innings.Īshton Agar (20), Pat Cummins (12) and Mitchell Starc (13) then hit some lusty blows at the death to give some respectability to the Australian total. The England women's rugby team completed an autumn clean sweep with an emphatic 89-0 thrashing of the United States on Sunday to extend their winning streak to 18 matches.The world's top-ranked.