Australia beat England by 64 runs in historic ground of Lord’s London in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. England was touted as one of the hot favorites in this World Cup. Suddenly, they fell off and are in extreme danger of another humiliation.

After Match Press Conference of England Vs Australia

Four days ago when England faced Sri Lanka they had one foot set on the semifinals. But, things changes fast after that. They defeated by a Lankan team who is relatively poor on this campaign and now heavily defeated by Australia who already booked their semifinals spot by beating them.

Eoin Morgan‘s team won the toss and chose to bowl first. Australia managed to score 285 for 7 as their skipper Aaron Finch had a great innings of 100-runs.

England started their innings very poorly and kept losing wickets without a break. They suffered a huge defeat of 64-run although Ben Stokes managed to score a valiant 89-runs against Australian productive pacers.

Eoin Morgan is still hopeful of World Cup chances of England after suffering a heavy defeat against Australia.

I thought we were completely outplayed by them. We bowled well but failed to keep the pace of the game.

English skipper Morgan said after-match press conference.

 

He also added-

We were unlucky. Losing early wickets was not a good thing and really lacked a substantial partnership to win the game and that’s the reason we were outplayed.

Morgan also defended his position to chose bowl first. ”wicket was too soft at first and we did well to chose bowl. It is not a matter of disappointments as our fate is on our hands. ”

We’re not feeling the pressure of favorites. We’re calm. We win the game and we go through. We just have to put a good performance in one match, if not two.
– Morgan added.

Confidence isn’t something came from being the favorite. It came from how you rebuild it after stumbling, going back to the point where your strength lies and stick to it.
Morgan insisted lastly.

Aussie skipper Aaron Finch was at cloud number 9 after got elected as the ”Man of the Match” and booked his team’s place at semifinals. He was absolutely delighted for his team’s achievement.

Aaron Finch is in full of joy as his side booked the place in semifinals.
You can’t win the tournament unless you reach the semifinal. That’s the first bit ticked off.
  – Man of the Match claimed with absolute gladness.

It was a great team performance. We didn’t let them take advantage and our bowlers did a great job. England is an outstanding team who can apart you at any stages in a game but we found our way to get wickets constantly and kept their batsmen at bay
. Morgan added.

The confidence of English players is definitely in absolute low after the consecutive collapse against Sri Lanka and Australia. It will be interesting to see how they can overcome this ferment situation as they have to face two unbeaten teams India and New Zealand in their next matches.