AUS vs ENG: England lost even after scoring the highest score in the Champions Trophy, and Australia’s 5619-day wait ends.
In a thrilling match of ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the Australian cricket team defeated England by 5 wickets. With this, the team has opened its account by winning the group. Australia has won this match against England by chasing a record target in the ICC tournament.
After losing the toss in this match played at Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore, England scored 351 runs with Ben Duckett’s record century. With Josh Inglis’ century and Matthew Short’s strong fifty, Australia defeated England by 5 wickets in a thrilling match in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Josh Inglia becomes man of the match.
In response, Australian cricket achieved the target by scoring 356 runs in just 47.3 overs with the strong batting of Josh Inglis. With this win, Australia ended the wait of 5619 days. The last time Australia won a match in the Champions Trophy was on 5 October 2009. This match was the final match against New Zealand.
While chasing the target, Josh Inglis completed his century in 77 balls for Australia. This was Inglis’ first century in ODI cricket. Inglis played a fighting innings for the team and scored an excellent unbeaten 120 runs. In his innings, Inglis faced 86 balls and hit 8 fours and 6 sixes. Before Josh Inglis, Matthew Short also contributed 63 runs in 66 balls for Australia. Along with Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell also played a brilliant cameo innings. Maxwell scored 21 runs in 10 balls for Australia.
Josh Inglis included in a special list for Australia
Along with scoring a century in this exciting match against England, Josh Inglis also made a special record for the Australian team. Josh Inglis has become the fourth batsman to score a century in all three formats of cricket for Australia. Josh Inglis, born in England, created history by leading his team to victory with his brilliant innings at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore. Josh Inglis was also awarded the Player of the Match award for his strong batting.
Champions Trophy chase becomes the highest score
With this victory of Australia, a new record was also created in the ICC Champions Trophy. In this match, Australia has made the record of making the highest run chase in the history of the Champions Trophy. Not only this, England’s team had made the record of making the highest total of this tournament while batting first, but it was broken in a few hours. This is also the biggest run chase so far in the history of the ICC tournament.
Ben Duckett’s record century innings went in vain
In this match for England, opener batsman Ben Duckett also made a big record by scoring a century. Ben Duckett played an innings of 165 runs facing 143 balls in this match. This was the biggest innings played by any batsman in the history of the ICC Champions Trophy, but despite this, the England team had to face defeat in this match. Ben Duckett broke a 21-year-old record with his batting.
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