T20 World Cup, Australia vs England Highlights: England beat Australia by 8 wickets, close to semi-final | Cricket News – Times of India

Dubai: joss butler The bowlers’ scintillating performance was complemented by an unbeaten 71 off 32 balls as England beat Australia by eight wickets in their Super 12 match to reach the semi-finals. t20 world cup on Saturday.
It was a thoroughly professional performance by the ODI world champions as they bundled out Australia for 125 and then returned to overhaul the target of 126 runs in 11.4 overs to consolidate their top spot in the Group 1 points table.
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butler and Jason Roy (22) overtook Australian bowlers around the park to score 66 for no loss in the Powerplay, the most by any team in the tournament so far.
Buttler was the most dangerous of England’s batsmen as he hit five fours and as many sixes during his unbeaten innings, which is the fastest fifty in the tournament so far.
Australia managed to get rid of Roy and David Malan (8) but it didn’t matter as Jonny Bairstow joined Butler in sending his opponents on a leather hunt.

Bairstow hit two sixes during Adam Zampa’s unbeaten knock of 16 off 11 balls as England posted 126 for 2 to win the match with 50 balls to spare.
England thus completed a hat-trick of wins, while Australia suffered their first defeat of the tournament, beating South Africa and Sri Lanka in their last two matches.
East, Chris Woakes (2/23) and Chris Jordan (3/17) rattled Australia’s top order by removing openers David Warner (1), Steve Smith (1) and Glenn Maxwell (6) in the first four overs before the captain. Aaron Finch (44 off 49 balls) revived the innings.
Ashton Agar (20), Pat Cummins (12) and Mitchell Starc (13) then hit some hard at the death to pay some respect to the Australian total.

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 (1/15).
Cummins then faced the first two balls to give Australia momentum.
But Jordan came back to dismiss Finch and Cummins in successive deliveries.