- Australia created history by defeating England (AUS vs ENG) by 5 wickets in the fourth match of the Champions Trophy 2025. Kangaroo team’s wicketkeeper-batsman Josh English batted in a stormy manner and scored a century in just 77 balls.
AUS vs ENG: The most thrilling match of this tournament was played between Group B teams Australia and England (AUS vs ENG) of Champions Trophy 2025 on Saturday, 22 February at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan, in which the Kangaroos batted explosively and easily won the record target of 352 runs by losing 5 wickets. In the fourth match of the Champions Trophy, Australia (AUS vs ENG) captain Steve Smith won the toss and decided to bowl first.
Left-handed opener Ben Duckett played a brilliant innings for the English team who came to bat first and played a vital role in taking his team past 350. But Australia won the match easily and got important points thanks to the strong innings of Josh English and Alex Carey.
Ben Duckett played a brilliant innings
After losing the toss and batting first, the English team had a very bad start. The first wicket of the English team fell in the form of Phil Salt (10) at a score of 13 runs. After this, wicketkeeper-batsman Jamie Smith also returned to the pavilion with a personal score of 15 at a score of 43. After this, Ben Duckett and former English captain Joe Root handled the innings and added important 158 runs for the fourth wicket, but at a score of 201, Root was also LBW off Adam Zampa’s ball after scoring 68 runs off 78 balls.
But on the other hand, Ben Duckett kept holding one end, but wickets kept falling from the other end. Ben Duckett faced 143 balls and scored 165 runs with the help of 17 fours and 3 sixes. This is also Ben Duckett’s personal highest score in ODIs. In the end, Jofra Archer played an important role in helping England (AUS vs ENG) reach 351 runs in the stipulated 50 overs by scoring a quick unbeaten 21 runs off 10 balls.
Josh Lnglis stunned England
Australia, chasing England’s (AUS vs ENG) target of 352 runs, was expecting a big innings from Travis Head, but he fell prey to Archer at a personal score of 6. After this, Australia’s captain Steve Smith also returned cheaply after scoring just 5 runs at a score of 27.
From here it seemed that England would easily tighten its grip on this match, but England-born Josh English probably had something else in mind. Josh English, who came to bat at number 5, started taking on the England (AUS vs ENG) bowlers from the very beginning and kept sending one ball after another out of the boundary.
English completed his first ODI century against England in just 77 balls, while he faced a total of 86 balls and scored an unbeaten 120 runs in which he hit 8 fours and 6 towering sixes. Apart from English, Matthew Short played a strong innings of 63 runs in 66 balls and Alex Carey played a strong innings of 69 runs in 63 balls and made a significant contribution to Australia’s victory.
Australia won by 5 wickets
After England (AUS vs ENG) put up a huge score of 352 runs on the scoreboard, it was expected that England would win this match easily because before this such a big target had never been chased in the history of the Champions Trophy.
Whereas such a big score had never been chased in ODIs at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium till now. But based on the strong innings of Matthew Short, Alex Carey, and Josh English, who was chosen as the Player of the Match, Australia was successful in chasing such a big target by losing 5 wickets in 47.3 overs. Let us tell you that Australia played its last match in the Champions Trophy in the year 2009 against New Zealand, after which it failed to win a single match in the two editions played.