Aus hammered, Woakes finds his wheelie, Ashton Agar sparkles

What a shellacking the 8-wicket win was. Almost a repeat of the 2019 semifinal when England thumped Australia. Both instances it was the bowlers who set it up earlier than the batsmen rubbed them to the bottom. It was Jason Roy then, now it was Jos Buttler. Not with out some assist from Australia, who produced a low-quality sport a lot consistent with a lot of the groups on this World Cup.
Mitchell Starc had third man and high quality leg close to the boundary and had mid-on and mid-off up. Perfect time for the bluff, then? It would have labored if it was a yorker. But he served two full-length hit-me balls and Buttler obliged with a thunderous bat swing and the ball was thrown again from the long-on stands. In his subsequent over, Starc bowled a stunning yorker which Dawid Malan nearly stubbed out. Malan readjusted his guard to maneuver additional to legstump-ish and Starc provided him a short-outside-off ball. Whack. Then with midwicket in, he bowled a brief below-chest excessive ball to Buttler who managed to hide his shock and thwacked it to midwicket boundary. On air, Nasser Hussain quipped, “Buttler is in real hurry to get back to the hotel.” That may effectively be, however he might have stated the identical about Australia.
Poor Adam Zampa, he received the worst of the remedy as Buttler and Jonny Bairstow looted 4 sixes off him, three of them in a single over as each took turns to pummel him and Australia. Ouch.

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Woakes’ wagon begins chugging
The wicket of David Warner and a sensational pluck to take away Steve Smith – all in only a few balls’ work for Chris Woakes.
When he blasted away to a fifty in opposition to Sri Lanka, it appeared David Warner had returned to type. England blew that notion away with the primary ball from a seamer to him. The same-old ball that has proved to be his nemesis within the latest previous. The one angling away. Sri Lanka had bowled quick and a whole lot of tripe in opposition to him. Not Chris Woakes. Perhaps anticipating the angler, Warner began to stroll down the observe. Woakes used the scrambled seam and received it to go along with the angle on a pitch that had extra grass than regular. Warner stopped his motion and had a poke at it. Mistake. Edge and gone.

Next up was Smith who fetched a brief and huge supply – so huge that it was outdoors the tramlines – and tried to pull pull it to the on aspect. It spooned away off the toe finish of the bat over mid-on the place Woakes back-pedalled. He had each palms cupped up however realised rapidly that it needed to be a single-handed pluck else he was about to listen to the ball thud on to the bottom behind him. He twisted his physique, put out his proper hand up, pouched the ball, and managed to carry on at the same time as he fell.Woakes wasn’t achieved but. He produced one in every of his signature balls – the seam dashing by way of proudly and the ball nipping again in – and that was sufficient for Glenn Maxwell, who was batting means too early than he would have favored. He went for an across-the-line drive and was rapped plumb in entrance.
Agar Agar pictures earlier than jelly wicket
Ashton Agar likes to hit YouTube to look at his debut knock of 98 when he was simply 19. One shot specifically. A walloping drive down the bottom off James Anderson. The mid-pitch chats with Phillip Hughes who stored telling him, “think of Lang, what would he do” – Lang, being Hughes’s hero Justin Longer. On Saturday, Agar had a few pictures price YouTubing in future. Chris Woakes provided one barely slowish one on the legs, and Agar drop-kicked it over square-leg the place Moeen Ali received a hand on to it, however he was already outdoors the boundary by then. The shot subsequent ball was a magnificence. He shuffled throughout to thwack a fuller ball over midwicket. He was quickly out although, pulling laborious and flat however couldn’t clear deep midwicket. As he walked away, he had a wry smile.