All or nothing for defending champion England against old foe Australia at Cricket World Cup

England has lost five of its six games ahead of Saturday’s crucial match against five-time champion Australia. It’s arguably the worst run for a title-holder since 1999, when Sri Lanka lost three out of five games and failed to make the playoffs.With Mohammed Shami’s rampaging spell to help I ndia dismiss England for 129 runs in a 230-run chase, the writing was on the wall in Lucknow.

England has struggled because of a lack of runs – and batting time – in the tournament. In six games, it has batted a full 50 overs only twice – against New Zealand in its opening game at Ahmedabad, and against Bangladesh in Dharamsala, where Dawid Malan got its only hundred of the World Cup. The English bowling has also suffered from the inability of Chris Woakes and Mark Wood to make a collective impression on Indian wickets. Its bowling attack was destabilized by Reece Topley’s hand injury that ruled him out of the World Cup.

“We have had a disastrous World Cup and there’s no point sugar coating that because it’s the truth," England's Ben Stokes said." we know these last three games, for us, we have got a lot to play for. I know there will be a lot of noise around England vs. Australia in the next game, but we have got to play for pride of what it is to put this shirt on.”

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