Australia Loses World Cup As England Beats New Zealand

After England beat New Zealand by 20 runs in an exciting match at the Gabba, Australia’s chances of advancing to the semifinals of the Twenty20 World Cup are now in jeopardy.

With a stunning 62 off 36 balls, Glenn Phillips once again threatened to single-handedly drag New Zealand to their total and help maintain Australia’s destiny in their own hands, but England’s bowlers held their nerve late in the game. This helped Australia keep their fate in their own hands.

The team that won the world championship last year is currently in third place in Group 1, and they will need a resounding victory over Afghanistan in their final Super 12 group stage match on Friday in Adelaide in order to improve their net-run-rate (NRR). This is because all three teams are tied with the same number of points.

The fact that Australia has a worse NRR than England (+0.547) and New Zealand (+2.233) means that the teams hosting the World Cup are effectively banking on England and New Zealand losing their respective final matches against Sri Lanka and Ireland. Australia’s NRR is -0.304, while England’s is +0.547, and New Zealand’s is +2.233.

On his way to a game-high score of 73 from 47 balls, England’s captain Jos Buttler was dropped twice by New Zealand during his 100th Twenty20 international match. This was New Zealand’s mistake, and it did them no favors.

After Buttler won the toss and opted to bat first, opening partner Alex Hales did the early pace setting. He smashed veteran Tim Southee for 15 runs beginning in the fifth over of the session, and England reached 48 runs without losing a wicket in the Powerplay.

Hales reached his first half century of the tournament with a four off Mitchell Santner just after the halfway point of the innings, but he was out the following ball for 52 (40) after he rushed past a delivery attempting to heave into the leg side and was out stumped. Hales’s first half century of the tournament was a milestone in the event.

Buttler, who had previously been put down by Kane Williamson off Santner (1-25) with replays suggesting the ball had hit the ground after bobbling off the Black Caps skipper’s hands, was put down again in the 13th over as Daryl Mitchell grassed a sharp chance on the deep square leg boundary.

Buttler soon made the New Zealanders pay by hammering back-to-back fours, which ended the Lockie Ferguson over (2-45) and resulted in 14 runs being scored.

The promotion of Moeen Ali to No.3 did not pay off as he was out for five, but his captain kept England’s momentum going with consecutive boundaries and a six off the dangerous Trent Boult as the New Zealand left-armer gave 40 runs from his four overs.

To help improve England’s total to 6-179 from their 20 overs, Liam Livingstone contributed a quickfire 20 runs while Harry Brook and Sam Curran both blasted sixes at the death.

The chase for the new target got off to a shaky start for New Zealand when Buttler made a brilliant catch down the leg side to remove Devon Conway in the second over, and the dangerous Finn Allen (16) picked out Ben Stokes in the deep.

After scoring a quick century against Sri Lanka in Sydney on Saturday, Phillips was then out for 15 after Moeen accidentally spilled a Coke from the blade of the right-hander at point while attempting to hit Adil Rashid over his head. Phillips had just finished scoring the century.

It was this moment that seemed to free Phillips up as he went ballistic, smashing a 152 kph thunderbolt from Mark Wood casually over long on for a big six on his way to a 25-ball fifty. Phillips went ballistic after this moment because it seemed to free him up.

As he got past Virat Kohli to take the top spot on the run-scorers list in the World Cup’s Super 12 stage, he added insult to injury by hitting Rashid for back-to-back sixes in the 14th over. This allowed him to move ahead of Kohli.

Williamson’s supporting act was brought to a stop on 40 runs off 40 balls as Stokes made the critical breakthrough for England. This brought an end to a third wicket partnership between Phillips and Williamson that had scored 91 runs.

When Phillips picked out substitute fielder Chris Jordan at long on off Sam Curran (2-26) with 15 balls remaining, the game was effectively over, and with it possibly went Australia’s hopes of defending their World Cup crown. Australia needed more than 13 runs an over for the last four, but the wickets kept falling at the other end.

Chris Woakes (2-33) and Curran brought the game to a successful conclusion with 40 runs needed from the final two overs. New Zealand finished the match on 6-159, falling short by 21 runs.

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