England has registered a convincing win over Australia in the Super 12 encounter of the ongoing T20 World Cup. After restricting Australia within 125 on board, England openers Jos Buttler stole the show with his swashbuckling knock.
He smashed a quickfire 71* at a strike rate of more than 200. During his innings, Buttler smashed Australia pacer Mitchell Starc for 2 huge sixes that went over mid-wicket, both of which were just outside off stump. And on both times, Buttler cleared his front leg and sent the ball into the stands as well.
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However, when the footage of the ball that went for a six by Jos Buttler was shown, Shane Watson got it wrong and thought it was that of the moon as the ball was shown in a zoomed-in frame. Even, Watson said on air “Isn’t that incredible, the beauty of the earth that we live on.”
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After the win, Eoin Morgan, the England skipper said: “Obviously we got off to a good start in the first two games of the tournament and challenge first is always adapting to the conditions away from home and we did that really in the first two games and then again today, the big test against a really strong Australian side. We sort of held up pretty well right from the beginning, holding our nerve and creating opportunities with the ball and then continuing to be relentless with the lengths we want to bowl. We are in good form with the bat. Jason last game and Jos today. We treat everybody with same amount of respect. We go to Sharjah from here and again another challenge there and we are really looking forward to it.”
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Aaron Finch, the Australia skipper said: “After losing few wickets in the powerplay, we had to hang in there and get to a total we thought would be defendable. They bowled well and put us on the back foot early. You had to bowl them out with that kind of total, but Jos Buttler played a hell of an innings and put the pressure on us and it’s just one of those nights where we got off to a poor start and it kept compounding unfortunately. We’ve got a couple of days to recharge now, give the guys some much-needed rest and take on Bangladesh next.”
