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Arjun: What was that? How is this even possible? England chased the target of 126 runs in just 70 deliveries. Simple maths? Mad cricket! Yeah, it was maniac like batting as the openers - Jos Buttler and Jason Roy dismantled the Aussie bowlers like they were playing EA Sports Cricket '07.
Aaron Finch's resistance and some lower-order hitting helped the Australians to post a mere total of 125 runs on a flat Dubai pitch. If you ask an Aussie fan, it wasn't an easy deck to bat on. As per them, Woakes was moving around. Mills and Jordan were seaming it. Adil Rashid and Livingstone were spinning it quarters. But it's all untrue. It is just an awful display of batting by the Aaron Finch-led Australia.
If the Aussies were awful with the bat, then England batters were formidable. If English bowlers were impeccable, then Australians were spanked on will. Roy and Buttler started a bit consciously but let loose once they spent some time in the middle.
Both of them took the attack to the bowlers and went berserk. In the process, Roy was dismissed for 22, but Buttler carried on and remained 71*. He also notched the joint-fastest T20 WC fifty as he smeared the bowling. Bairstow and Malan too got to free their hands. All in all, it was an easy English thumping.