ICC World Cup 2023: Australia knock defending champions England out of World Cup

Adam Zampa produced three timely strikes in the middle overs as Australia knocked out defending champions England out of the ODI World Cup with a 33run win here on Saturday their fifth consecutive victoryAustralian batters were guilty of not converting starts but still managed to post 286 against archrivals England Marnus Labuschagne 71 off 83 recorded his highest score of the tournamentAlso Read ICC World Cup 2023 Kane Williamson overtakes Stephen Fleming to become NZs leading WC runscorerEngland whose formidable batting lineup has massively underperformed in their title defence had a good opportunity to pick up a win after four consecutive lossesAmid heavy dew Ben Stokes 64 off 90 kept the chase alive while batting alongside Dawid Malan 50 off 64 and Moeen Ali 42 off 43 before Zampa landed the killer blows to stop England at 253 in 481 oversChris Woakes 32 off 33 tried his best towards the end but it wasnt enoughZampa first had outofform England skipper Jos Buttler 1 caught in the deep before getting rid of Stokes in a soft dismissalIt was a short ball on the leg side and Stokes ended up offering a simple catch to Stoinis at shortfine legIt was all over for England when Moeens slog sweep off Zampa arrived straight into the hands of David Warner at deep midwicketAlso ReadPace wins the raceEngland batters including Stokes Moeen and Dawid Malan did exhibit the strokeplay they are known for but could not stay long enough to see their team throughLeftarm pacer Mitchell Starc got the ball to swing in the powerplay He got lucky in the first ball of the England innings as Jonny Bairstow got a faint edge to one swinging down the legsideJoe Root was set up by Starc with a series of inswingers before he pushed one wide and the England number three got the outside edgeAustralias sharp fielding also contributed to their fifth win in a rowEarlier Labuschange Steve Smith 44 off 52 Cameron Green 47 off 52 and Marcus Stoinis 35 off 32 were among the batters who failed to cash in on their startsLeggie Adil Rashid 238 was frugal as usual while pacer Mark Wood 270 was back to his menacing ways using the short ball to hurry the opposition batters especially GreenChris Woakes 454 delivered with the new ball for the second game in a row removing the dangerous opening duo of David Warner 15 and Travid Head 11 He also struck twice in the death oversEngland were able to get the early wickets after putting Australia in to batHead handed a regulation catch to Joe Root at first slip off an angled away ball from WoakesThree overs later Warner mistimed a pull to give Woakes his second wicket leaving Australia at 38 for two in the sixth overSmith and Labuschagne who both have not had the best of times in the tournament then shared a 75run stand off 96 balls It was hard work in the middle for the seasoned batters who found the boundaries hard to come byFollowing Smiths fall Josh Inglis 3 tried to up the scoring rate but fell while attempting a reverse sweep off RashidGreen who looked uncomfortable against the shortpitched stuff from Wood did hit some crisp boundaries off the other bowlers His cover drive off Woakes was the highlight of his knock He saw his leg stump uprooted after missing a slog sweep off leftarm pacer David WilleyStoinis then got into the action depositing Rashid and Liam Livingstone into the stands over deep midwicket before getting caught in the same spot off a short ball from the latterIt seemed Australia would not able to use their full quota of overs but Adam Zampas timely cameo of 29 from 19 balls took the team close to 300This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever