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

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    My big fear is Ben Stokes does something reckless having batted all this time.

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

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It feels like something going to give soon in this game. A big shot is coming from Dawid Malan or Ben Stokes.

  3. Aus 62-2published at 16 overs

    Malan resumes after drinks by taking a leg bye off the bowling of Zampa.

    England take three more runs from the over, Zampa's gone for just seven from his three overs.

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

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Australia's players look very confident with their body language at drinks.

  5. Postpublished at 14:16 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The pace on the ball from Mitchell Starc will help Ben Stokes, especially as its no longer swinging. At the moment his body language is tired and I think when you are carrying an injury it can wear you down mentally.

  6. Eng 58-2published at 15 overs

    Mitchell Starc returns after three overs of Pat Cummins.

    Stokes finds two, turning the ball through backward square with the pull shot.

    The players will take drinks - on rolls the truck with the huge drinks bottle, angled to the sky like a great telescope.

  7. Eng 53-2published at 14 overs

    Zampa hustles through his over, beating Malan's outside edge.

    Ben Stokes currently sits on 9 from 31 and is still looking rather scratchy.

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

    Aaron Finch
    Former Australia captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The dew is just starting to set in. England will not want to lose any more wickets while that happens.

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    I once finished behind Mike Gatting in a charity race around the Lord's outfield. I retired from all sports immediately afterwards.

    Mike, Cornwall

  10. Postpublished at 14:08 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    Ben Stokes' mantra is go harder, go harder, go harder. But there's a lot of occasions where they shouldn't do that at all. Ben Stokes is at least in a desperate state is getting his head down. You know what he should do to change his fortunes? Shave his beard off!

  11. Eng 50-2published at 13 overs

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    Malan works Cummins for two over mid-wicket and brings up the England fifty with a single into square leg.

    For anyone who's interested, England's current run rate is 3.84, while they'll need 6.40 from now on.

  12. Postpublished at 14:04 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    I see what you've done there, Alex.

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    I heard David Warner posted a pretty slow time in a parkrun near Norwich recently. Only ever takes him a couple of minutes after seeing the Broads before he starts walking.

    Alex, Nottingham

  14. Postpublished at 14:04 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It is interesting to see how Ben Stokes plays here. The last two innings he's had a complete hack. Against Sri Lanka he did time a few. So he seems to be having a net here, trying to get rhythm into his batting. We know he can pick up it up later.

  15. England 45-2published at 12 overs

    Australia introduce spin for the first time with Adam Zampa, the tournament's second highest wicket taker, entering the attack.

    Malan takes a single before Stokes plays out five dot balls - he's on 7 from 28 and is yet to really get going.

  16. Postpublished at 14:01 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    It looks dewy. Many of the Australia players have little towels draping from their trousers.

  17. Postpublished at 14:01 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    I wouldn't risk overtaking someone nicknamed Psycho, to be honest.

    I have finished ahead of former Watford, QPR and Ipswich midfielder Steve Palmer - he was nicknamed "The Professor" as he had a degree from Cambridge, and did in fact play one first class game for the university side in 1987, playing alongside Mike Atherton and dismissing Lancashire's Graeme Fowler.

    Couldn't beat me though.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 13:58 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

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    Not a cricketer, but I did the same parkrun as 'Psycho' Stuart Pearce once. Beat him hollow.

    Jonathan in Nottingham

  19. Postpublished at 13:58 Greenwich Mean Time 4 November 2023

    Bharat Sundaresan
    Journalist on Test Match Special

    MalanImage source, Reuters

    Malan has decided he's hung around long enough.

  20. Eng 44-2published at 11 overs

    More signs of impetus from Dawid Malan as he cuts Cummins hard for four runs through third.

    He moves to 20 from 25.