AUS vs ENG / Defending champion England is out of the World Cup - Australia defeated by 33 runs

AUS vs ENG: Defending champion England is out of this year's ODI World Cup. The team was defeated by Australia by 33 runs at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. England became the second team to be eliminated from the tournament after 6 defeats in 7 matches. Before him, Bangladesh had also been eliminated. After losing the toss and batting first, Australia scored 286 runs, Marnus Labuschagne scored the highest 71 runs for the team. While chasing the target, England team was all out for 253 runs in 48.1 overs. Ben Stokes and David Malan scored fifties for them. Adam Zampa from Australia took 3 wickets, while Chris Woakes from England took 4 wickets.

England has only 2 points

England is out of the tournament with 2 points in 7 matches. Now they have 2 matches left against Netherlands and Pakistan. Even after winning these, they will have only 6 points, which is not enough to qualify for the semi-finals. On the other hand, after defeating England, Australia has 10 points from 5 wins in 7 matches. The team is at third place in the points table. They have 2 matches left against Afghanistan and Bangladesh, if they win even one match the team will reach the semi-finals.

Australia was all out after scoring 286 runs

In the first innings, Australia was all out after scoring 286 runs in 49.3 overs. Batsman Marnus Labuschagne played a half-century of 71 runs. Whereas, Cameron Green was out after scoring 47 runs and Steve Smith was out after scoring 44 runs. Chris Woakes took 4 wickets for England. Mark Wood and Adil Rashid got 2-2 wickets. Liam Livingston and David Willey got 1-1 wicket.

England gained momentum in the beginning of the middle overs, wickets fell later

After 2 wickets fell in the powerplay, England took control of the match between 11 and 40 overs. David Malan scored a half-century and made a partnership of 84 runs with Ben Stokes. After this, Malan was out in the 23rd over after scoring 50 runs. Jos Buttler was also out in the 26th over. From here Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali made a partnership of 63 runs with maturity, but then wickets kept falling continuously. Stokes was out in the 36th over, Liam Livingston in the 37th and Moeen Ali in the 40th over. Adam Zampa took 3 wickets and Pat Cummins took 2 wickets in the middle overs for Australia.

England lost 2 wickets in the first 5 overs of powerplay.

The English team, which set out to chase the target of 287 runs, had a bad start. Mitchell Starc got Jonny Bairstow caught behind on the very first ball. Joe Root led the innings with David Malan but Root was also out in the 5th over. Starc took both the wickets. The team could score only 38 runs at the loss of 2 wickets after 10 overs.

Australia scored 66 runs in death overs

England made a brilliant comeback in the death overs. Australian batsmen failed to score big in these overs. Meanwhile, England all out the team by taking 5 wickets. Australia could score only 66 runs in the last 10 overs. Cameron Green, Marcus Stoinis and Pat Cummins were out between the 41st and 45th overs. After this Mitchell Starc and Adam Zampa added 38 runs for the 9th wicket. In this, Zampa scored 29 runs in 19 balls. Willey, Livingston and Wood took 1-1 wicket for England in the death overs. At the same time, Chris Woakes took the last 2 wickets.

Labuschagne made half-century partnerships twice in the middle overs.

After both Australia openers were out in the powerplay, Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith took over the innings. Both made a partnership of 75 runs for the fourth wicket. Apart from being defensive in the innings, he also played risky shots. Adil Rashid gave England a comeback and took the wickets of Steve Smith and Josh Inglis in the 22nd and 24th overs. There was a fifty partnership between Cameron Green and Labuschagne, which was broken by Mark Wood after taking the wicket of Labuschagne in the 33rd over. Labuschagne was out after scoring 71 runs. In the middle overs, Australia scored 172 runs and lost 3 wickets.

Labuschagne took charge of Australia by scoring 71 runs.

Marnus Labuschagne came to bat at number-4 from Australia. He rescued the team from initial setbacks and made a fifty partnership with Steven Smith. But from here 2 wickets fell, even after this Labuschagne remained at one end. He made a partnership of 61 runs with Cameron Green. Labuschagne was set after making his fifty but Mark Wood made him LBW. Labuschagne scored 71 runs on 83 balls. He hit 7 fours in this innings.

Australian openers out in powerplay

Australia started aggressively in the powerplay. Australian opener Travis Head started hitting big shots as soon as he came to the crease. Due to this, he also lost his wicket in the second over itself. Steve Smith led the innings and defended 2 overs. Warner also gave his wicket in the sixth over. Labuschagne and Smith took over the innings and scored 9 runs in the last 4 overs of the powerplay. For England, David Willey and Chris Woakes completed the spell of 5-5 overs. Woakes took both the wickets.

Playing-11 of both the teams

Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, David Warner, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis (wicketkeeper), Marcus Stoinis, Cameron Green, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.

England: Jos Buttler (captain and wicketkeeper), Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood.