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Jos Buttler shines as England crush Australia by 8 wickets, ride nearer to semifinals

Dubai: Jos Buttler hammered a brutal 32-ball 71 no longer out to complement a superlative efficiency from the bowlers as England beaten Australia by eight wickets of their Plump 12 match to ride nearer to a semifinal jam on the T20 World Cup right here on Saturday.

It used to be a thoroughly reliable expose by the ODI world champions as they bundled out Australia for 125 after which returned to overtake the target of 126 in 11.4 overs to consolidate their top set aside within the Neighborhood 1 facets table.

Buttler and Jason Roy (22) hammered the Australian bowlers all all the very best blueprint thru the park to amass 66 runs for no loss within the powerplay, the final word by any crew to this level within the match. Buttler used to be basically the most abominable of the England batters as he slammed five fours and as many sixes all the very best blueprint thru his unbeaten knock, which is the quickest fifty within the match till now.

Australia managed to web rid of Roy and Dawid Malan (8) nonetheless it made no distinction as Jonny Bairstow joined Buttler in sending their opponents on a leather-based hunt.

Bairstow smashed two sixes off Adam Zampa all the very best blueprint thru his unbeaten 10-ball 16 flee innings as England reached 126 for 2 to purchase the match with 50 balls to spare.

England thus accomplished a hat-trick of wins, whereas Australia suffered their first lack of the match after beating South Africa and Sri Lanka of their old two games.

Earlier, Chris Woakes (2/23) and Chris Jordan (3/17) rattled Australia’s top-assert by eliminating opener David Warner (1), Steve Smith (1) and Glenn Maxwell (6) within the critical four overs sooner than skipper Aaron Finch (44 off 49 balls) resurrected the innings.

Ashton Agar (20), Pat Cummins (12) and Mitchell Starc (13) then hit some lusty blows on the death to provide some respectability to the Australian complete.

Woakes used to be in action early on as he caused a prick from Warner to deal the critical blow after which pulled off a sensational remove at mid-on to remove Steve Smith off Jordan’s bowling.

Woakes then trapped Maxwell in entrance of wicket as Australia slumped to 15 for 3 in 4 overs.

Leg-spinner Adil Rashid (1/19), who had opened the bowling for England, then returned to entice Marcus Stoinis LBW with a googly as Australia were tottering at 21 for 4 in 6.1 overs.

Matthew Wade (18) then joined skipper Finch, taking Australia to 41 for four in 10 overs.

Wade, nonetheless, perished within the 12th over after holing out at lengthy-on to Jason Roy off Liam Livingstone.

Finch smashed attend-to-attend boundaries to cream 10 runs off Tymal Mills, sooner than selecting up one other boundary off Jordan within the subsequent over.

Agar then exploded within the 17th over as he pulled one from Woakes over deep backward square leg sooner than walloping him for one other six over deep midwicket to score 20 runs of the over.

He used to be attend to the pavilion after being caught by Livingstone (1/15).

Cummins then clobbered the critical two balls he confronted for maximums to provide Australia momentum.

But Jordan returned to remove Finch and Cummins in successive balls.

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