Mitchell Starc invoked a phrase beloved by Justin Langer to flatly reject English suspicions that Australia seriously considered easing off on Scotland to eliminate Jos Buttler’s team from the T20 World Cup.
Pushed into a corner by some sloppy fielding and a strong start with the ball by the Scots, the Australians switched on the afterburners in the final seven overs of the game in St Lucia to remain unbeaten and help England through to the Super Eights.In the aftermath of the Jonny Bairstow stumping at Lord’s last year, England’s Test coach Brendon McCullum had remarked of Australia that.
“We’ve overcome that net run rate and we’ve overcome the challenges that have been put in front of us,” Bairstow said. “And as a group, we’ve stuck together really tightly. That Australia game was a tough game and they outplayed us in that, fair play to them.”When they sat down in their team hotel in Antigua to watch events to the south in St Lucia, England’s players were first greeted by the news that Australia had rested two of their leading pacemen: Hazlewood and Cummins.
“No, we were just terrible,” Starc said when asked if there were any excuses for the fielding. “We were certainly off the mark in the field with dropped catches and probably some other areas that were a bit sloppy as well. good to get that stuff out of the way, and now we’re into the pointy end.”
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