England vs Australia LIVE: ICC Cricket World Cup result and reaction as holders finally crash out
England are out of the World Cup as their hopes were finally extinguished by bitter rivals Australia
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Your support makes all the difference.England’s World Cup nightmare continued as their miniscule mathematical hopes of staying in the competition were finally extinguished by bitter rivals Australia.
After five defeats from their first six games the defending champions had long since given up hope of reaching the semi-finals, but officially bowing out at the hands of their Ashes foes with a 33-run defeat simply poured salt into open wounds.
Once again it was their batting that let them down, failing to get to grips with a manageable target after a spirited showing from the bowling unit left Australia 286 all out in the final over.
England were knocked over for 253 in response, Ben Stokes top-scoring with 64 but unable to pull his side out of the fire.
Australia 75-2 (16) Smith 25, Labuschagne 21, Livingstone 0-9 (2)
Livingstone will continue, and these two are just starting to look comfortable. They don’t seem to be troubled by either the pace of Wood or the spin of the all-rounder.
There hasn’t been a boundary since the 12th over.
Australia 70-2 (15) Smith 23, Labuschagne 17, Wood 0-12 (3)
Australia are struggling to find the runs here, there aren’t too many loose deliveries, but England are not doing what India did to them and really turning the screw and trying to impose themselves on the game.
Australia paused over a run but were able to scamper back.
Australia 64-2 (14) Smith 21, Labuschagne 13, Livingstone 0-3 (1)
Liam Livingstone has been brought on as England are in the hunt for a third wicket, interesting decision to go with him rather than the first-choice spinner in Rashid.
Three runs from it, with the batters not going after him, it might be a good time for him to get through a few overs.
Australia 61-2 (13) Smith 19, Labuschagne 12, Wood 0-6 (2)
Wood has been bowling quickly, but he has struggled for breakthroughs in this tournament, although today he has not gone for many runs.
Three runs from that over.
Australia 58-2 (12) Smith 17, Labuschagne 11, Woakes 2-30 (6)
Smith has edged it but short of Joe Root and straight into the ground.
But Labuschagne has eased that pressure a bit with a four, only his second of the match so far.
The next one has also just evaded Root at slip and Rashid dives and prevents a boundary.
Australia 50-2 (11) Smith 15, Labuschagne 6, Wood 0-3 (1)
Wood comes into the attack for the first time, and hits over 90mph almost immediately.
Three runs from his first over, since the loss of the openers, Australia’s run-scoring has just been pegged back slightly.
Australia 48-2 (10) Smith 13, Labuschagne 5, Woakes 2-23 (5)
Just the one from the over from Woakes, this is good pressure from England in the powerplay.
Australia 47-2 (9) Smith 12, Labuschagne 5, Willey 0-21 (5)
Slightly overpitched from Willey and Labuschagne has hit that for four.
Australia 41-2 (8) Smith 11, Labuschagne 1, Woakes 2-22 (4)
Another good over from Woakes, just the two runs from it.
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