Australia’s threat to cheat England shows weakness of this T20 World Cup format

Josh Hazlewood admits it would be in Australia's 'interests' to manipulate their match against Scotland if it knocked England outwill manipulate their final group match against Scotland on Saturday to knock the defending champions out of the T20 World Cup.

Now having already qualified for the Super Eights after winning their first three games, Australia can ease off against Scotland to help knock Buttler’s men out of the tournament, with the maximum punishment available to the International Cricket Council a two-match ban for Aussie captain Mitchell Marsh and a fine of 100 per cent of his match fee if found guilty of manipulating a match.

Given Australia and Scotland play in St Lucia after England’s final match, it means both teams will know exactly what’s required to help wreck England’s chances, something Hazlewood was well aware of following his team’s win against Namibia in Antigua on Tuesday evening.

Buttler and his players can make talk of an Aussie stitch-up moot if they hammer both of the weakest two teams in Group B over the next three days. Once they got into the last four, with wins against New Zealand and Sri Lanka confirming their place, they hammered India in the semi-finals and went on to win the tournament.

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