{"id":21299,"date":"2023-11-04T19:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/all-round-adam-zampa-helps-australia-knock-out-england-and-close-in-on-world-cup-semis\/"},"modified":"2023-11-04T19:53:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T19:53:06","slug":"all-round-adam-zampa-helps-australia-knock-out-england-and-close-in-on-world-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/all-round-adam-zampa-helps-australia-knock-out-england-and-close-in-on-world-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"All-round Adam Zampa helps Australia knock out England and close in on World Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Spinner Adam Zampa starred with bat and ball as Australia knocked defending champions England out of the ICC World Cup with a 33-run win on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing 287 for victory in Ahmedabad, England folded for 253 in 48.1 overs despite a valiant 64 from Ben Stokes to slump to their sixth defeat in seven matches and stay bottom of the 10-team table.<\/p>\n<p>Five-time champions Australia edged closer to securing a semi-final berth alongside India and South Africa \u2014 both already qualified for the last four \u2014 with their fifth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>Zampa returned figures of 3-21 with his leg-spin to puncture England\u2019s hopes that were raised by a couple of partnerships, including a 63-run fifth-wicket stand between Stokes and Moeen Ali, who hit 42.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put on a really competitive total, but it was going to be tough to defend,\u201d said Zampa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ground felt really dewey, really wet. So length control, attacking the stumps, trying to guess what the batsman was going to do was really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zampa, who had earlier hit 29 with the bat, dismissed Stokes when the English star mistimed a paddle to be caught at short fine-leg and departed with a shake of his head.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1783975\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Wickets kept tumbling with Liam Livingstone and Ali falling in quick succession for a familiar England tale in this tournament where they have also lost to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1781235\">Afghanistan<\/a> and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Zampa, who leads the World Cup bowling chart with 19 wickets, also took a superb outfield catch to help dismiss David Willey.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"it-hurts\" href=\"#it-hurts\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>\u2018It hurts\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt certainly feels like a low point. I\u2019ve had a few but definitely as a captain,\u201d said England skipper Jos Buttler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be stood in this position having arrived in India with high hopes is incredibly tough and disappointing. It hurts a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Left-arm Mitchell Starc struck with two early wickets for Australia including Jonny Bairstow on the first ball of the chase and then Joe Root for 13.<\/p>\n<p>Dawid Malan made 50 before skipper Pat Cummins took him out.<\/p>\n<p>England, in their remaining two matches, are left to fight for a place in the 2025 Champions Trophy with the top seven teams from this World Cup gaining entry into the tournament where hosts Pakistan will have automatic qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Batsmen set up victory for Australia with Marnus Labuschagne top-scoring with 71 and useful contributions from Steve Smith (44), Cameron Green (47), Marcus Stoinis (35) and Zampa (29 off 19 balls).<\/p>\n<p>Chris Woakes returned figures of 4-54 and was supported by fellow quick Mark Wood and leg-spinner Adil Rashid, with two each, to help bowl out Australia for 286.<\/p>\n<p>Woakes struck early to remove the openers including previous-match centurion Travis Head, for 11, and David Warner, for 15.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Smith and Labuschagne put on 75 runs to steady the innings but Rashid broke through.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid dismissed Smith and then had Josh Inglis (three) caught at backward point after the batsman attempted a reverse sweep.<\/p>\n<p>Labuschagne reached his 50 and put on a partnership of 61 with Green before falling to Wood. He made 71.<\/p>\n<p>Green and Stoinis, the two players coming into the team in place of Glenn Maxwell and Mitchell Marsh, put on 45 for the sixth wicket.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinner Adam Zampa starred with bat and ball as Australia knocked defending champions England out of the ICC World Cup with a 33-run win on Saturday. Chasing 287 for victory in Ahmedabad, England folded for 253 in 48.1 overs despite a valiant 64 from Ben Stokes to slump to their sixth defeat in seven matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/042309151ffc366.jpg?r=231045","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}