LONDON: Australia captain Aaron Finch hit a hundred before left-arm quicks Jason Behrendorff and Mitchell Starc shared nine wickets as the reigning champions thumped England by 64 runs at Lord's on Tuesday to book their place in the semi-finals of the World Cup.AdvertisementThe recalled Behrendorff took 5-44 - his first five-wicket haul in a one-day international - while Starc became the leading bowler at the tournament with 19 scalps thanks to a haul of 4-43.
"There are teams that you have confidence playing against but I have had plenty of low scores against England as well," said man-of-the-match Finch."It was nipping around first thing. We were as tight as we could be and then took advantage of any width." England have surged to the top of the ODI rankings on the back of aggressive run-scoring but the worry for Morgan's men is that too many of their top-order appear to know only one way to bat.Jonny Bairstow, for example, fell next to a careless hook off Behrendorff before Stokes and Jos Buttler repaired some of the damage with a fifth-wicket stand of 71.
Starc was brought back to take a key wicket and duly obliged with a thunderbolt yorker, his 18th wicket of the tournament, that ended Stokes's 115-ball innings of 89, including eight fours and two sixes.
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