Captain Aaron Finch hit 44 off 49 balls, but England’s fast bowlers put up a brilliant performance to bowl Australia out for 125 in a Super 12 Group 1 match. t20 world cup in Dubai on Saturday
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Opting to bowl, the fast pair of Chris Woakes (2/23) and Chris Jordan (3/17) removed openers David Warner (1), Steve Smith (1) and Glenn Maxwell (6) to lift Australia’s top order. shattered. The first four overs before Finch revived the innings.
Ashton Agar (20), Pat Cummins (12) and Mitchell Starc (13) then hit some hard runs to give the Australian total some respect.
England’s fast bowlers put up a brilliant display of fast bowling after captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bowl.
Woakes was quickly in action as he first propelled a nick from Warner to tackle the blow and then a sensational catch at mid-on to remove Steve Smith off Jordan.
Woakes then trapped Maxwell in front of the wicket as Australia were reduced to 15 for 3 in 4 overs.
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 21 for 4 in 6.1 overs.
Matthew Wade (18) then joined captain Finch, taking Australia to 41 for four in 10 overs. However, Wade died in the 12th over after Jason Roy was dismissed at long on by Liam Livingstone.
Finch hit back-to-back boundaries for 10 runs off Tymal Mills, before taking another boundary off Jordan in the next over.
Agar exploded in the 17th over as he pulled Woakes over deep backward square leg and hit another six over deep midwicket to score 20 runs in the over.
He returned to the pavilion after being caught by Livingstone. Cummins then faced the first two balls to give Australia momentum. But Jordan came back to dismiss Finch and Cummins in successive deliveries.
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