Summary

  • Defending champions England eliminated from World Cup in Ahmedabad

  • Australia close on semi-finals with 33-run win

  • Stokes battles lack of fluency to hit 64 off 90 balls

  • Malan out for 50 after 84-run stand with Stokes

  • Bairstow feathers down leg side off first ball of England innings

  • Australia bowled out for 286, having been 247-8

  • Labuschagne anchors Australia with 71 off 83 balls

  1. Eng 106-3published at 25 overs

    Maiden over from Pat Cummins, bowling a tight line from round the wicket to Ben Stokes, who can't get it away.

    England's required run-rate has crept over seven runs. Time for a change of pace? Here's Timothy Abraham to see you through.

  2. Postpublished at 14:51 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    England do bat very deep in this game, so they have plenty of batting to come.

  3. Eng 106-3published at 24 overs

    The Travis Head cameo is over for now as Adam Zampa returns.

    England cautiously work him around for three singles.

  4. Postpublished at 14:49 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That's why Australia have put Cameron Green, who is so large he covers two people, in at slip.

  5. Postpublished at 14:48 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Geoff Lemon
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Buttler has got out in conventional ways in this World Cup - fishing outside off stump in the main.

  6. Eng 103-3published at 23 overs

    That wicket came just as England had caught up with Australia's worm.

    Now their worm has turned, so to speak.

    Captain Jos Buttler arrives at the crease and plays out three dot balls, dropping the final one just shot of slip.

    Worm
  7. Postpublished at 14:45 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

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    That's a very unlike-Malan shot. He's taken it on a bit too early. Cummins has brought himself on because Australia needed a wicket and he's struck in his first over.

  8. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 22.3 overs

    Malan c Head b Cummins 50 (Eng 103-3)

    And two balls later he's gone!

    He tries to pull Cummins but the ball takes the top edge and flies high. Travis Head takes the catch at long leg.

    England will need to rebuild again.

  9. Fifty for Dawid Malanpublished at 22.1 overs

    Eng 102-2

    That's the half-century for Dawid Malan, cutting Cummins through third for a single. It's come from 63 balls.

  10. 6 runs

    Eng 101-2published at 22 overs

    There we go, Ben Stokes!

    He cracks Travis Head's penultimate delivery down the ground and it flies away for six. That's the England century up.

    The England batter goes for the same shot the following ball and gets a thick inside edge, bouncing clear of the stumps.

  11. Postpublished at 14:39 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Geoff Lemon
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    He likes playing Australia, and he likes playing fast bowlers. I remember that century he scored in the Ashes at Perth a few years ago.

  12. Postpublished at 14:39 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Dawid Malan takes time to get in but when he does, he generally goes big.

  13. Eng 92-2published at 21 overs

    A couple of boundaries in the over - will wonders ever cease?

    They both come for Dawid Malan, twice sending Marcus Stoinis through fine leg and to the ropes. He doesn't quite get hold of the second shot and might have been in trouble had there been a fielder there.

    The England opener moves to 47 from 59.

  14. Eng 83-2published at 20 overs

    Travis Head may be a part-timer but that's a tidy over, again just three from it.

    No signs of England doing anything silly, but they won't want to be left with too much to do against the likes of Starc and Hazlewood.

  15. Postpublished at 14:33 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Ben Stokes and Dawid Malan will want to interrupt Australia's plans by attacking these two bowlers forcing Pat Cummins to bring back one of his main quick bowlers.

  16. Eng 79-2published at 19 overs

    Changes at both ends as Marcus Stoinis replaces Adam Zampa. An average of 43 for him, but he's bowled in 60 of his 67 ODIs.

    Four more singles off this one - Stokes cracks a pull shot but that one goes straight to the mid-wicket fielder.

  17. Eng 75-2published at 18 overs

    A first sight of Travis Head - he's only bowled in a little over half his ODI appearances with an average of 56.12. He's called upon today as Glenn Maxwell is absent.

    England milk him for five singles.

  18. Postpublished at 14:25 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Sometimes it's just one shot and you start to feel a little bit more comfortable. That straight drive came right out the middle. You are searching when you're out of form for that one shot that can get you away.

  19. Eng 69-2published at 17 overs

    Ah, that's a bit better from Ben Stokes - a straight drive down the ground brings his first boundary from his 38th delivery.

    He then takes the partnership past fifty with a single into square leg.

    This might not be exhilarating stuff for England and they'll need to accelerate at some point, but they've not seen many partnerships of this size in recent matches.

  20. Postpublished at 14:22 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Looking at England's batting line-up it's in the back of your mind at how deep it is. When you have guys like Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali at seven and eight you feel like you have to push harder earlier and bowl out one of your frontline quicks.