Josh Inglis of Australia performs a shot as Jamie Smith of England retains through the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 match between Australia and England at Gaddafi Stadium on February 22, 2025 in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Josh Inglis’s 77-ball century handed two-time champion Australia a record-breaking run chase to defeat England by 5 wickets on the Champions Trophy.
Inglis completed with an unbeaten 120 runs off 86 deliveries for a maiden ODI hundred. Australia cruised to 356-5 in 47.3 overs. It was the highest-ever profitable run chase in all ICC ODI tournaments.
Australia’s chase bought off to a rocky begin as Jofra Archer and Mark Wooden eliminated Travis Head for six and captain Steven Smith for five earlier than the Australian middle-order batters attacked the quick bowlers.
Matthew Brief, with 63, and Marnus Labuschagne, 47, mixed in a 95-run stand. Adil Rashid denied Labuschagne a half-century when Jos Buttler caught him, after which Liam Livingstone took a return catch to dismiss Brief as Australia slipped to 136-4.
Nonetheless, Inglis and Alex Carey (69) mastermind the run-chase completely and shared a 146-run partnership off 116 balls.
England missed a possibility with Australia nonetheless needing 104 for victory when Archer missed a catch of Carey in Rashid’s penultimate over earlier than he accomplished his half-century. Inglis smashed Archer for 2 boundaries within the subsequent over.
Carey was lastly dismissed when he drove to Butler at mid-off in Carse’s return spell, however Glenn Maxwell completed on 32 not out of 15 balls, and Inglis reached his century with a 6 off Archer and sealed the win equally with one other 6 off Wooden.
DUCKETT SETS RECORD
Duckett turned the primary batter within the historical past of the Champions Trophy to attain greater than 150 runs after Smith received the toss and elected to subject.
He blasted 165 off 143 balls with 17 fours and three sixes because the Australian tempo assault struggled at a newly renovated Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
The cricketer laid a stable basis for England when he partnered with Joe Root in a 158-run stand; Root made 68 off 78 balls.
Labuschagne (2-41) dismissed Duckett within the forty eighth over.
Australia’s Ben Dwarshuis (3-66) struck inside his first three overs to dismiss Phil Salt (10) after which No. 3 batter Jamie Smith (15).
With their partnership, Duckett and Root raised England’s first-century stand in ODIs this 12 months, whereas Duckett raised his century off 95 balls.
Zampa had Root trapped lbw within the thirty first over, after which Carey picked up one other sensible catch to dismiss Harry Brook for 3. Duckett continued to attain regardless of Buttler (23) and Livingstone (14) falling in fast succession.
Archer made 21 off 10 balls as he smacked Labuschagne for 12 runs off the ultimate three balls, with England making 83 runs off the ultimate 10 overs.
