England Vs Australia in Edbanghston
2004 champions trophy was an unforgettable series for me. I
was a 10 years old boy and that series helped me to love cricket more. Unfortunately, my home team already out of the tournament in the first round. But I watched
the semi-final due to my interest in cricket. Before the match, I bet Australia
with my heart. But the match belonged to England.
Australia was the number one ODI side in the world when coming
to the series. But the benefit of home soil helped the England team to get the
win. I was expecting the winner of the Australia team and anyhow England finished the
match by surprising me. The match was held at Edbanghston cricket ground in
Birmingham.
Australia bat first and put a score of 259/9 within their 50
overs. They lost few quick wickets within a few overs in the early and the middle.
Anyhow Damien Martin played a brilliant inning of 65. The quick 42 of the
Michael Clarke helped them a lot to take them to 250 marks. Other batsmen were
failed to get many runs. England bowlers bowl well and they controlled the
Aussie batsmen very well. Darren Gough became the star for them and who got 3
wickets for 48. English captain bowled well and took 2 wickets for 42 runs.
This is too much less score when considering the batting
power of the Australia cricket team. Gilcrist, Heyden, Ponting was failed to get a big score and which affect them to restrict to 259. Otherwise, they could have
to get 300+ and put the England team on pressure. However, they had a brilliant bowling
unit staring at Glenn Mcgrath and Brett Lee.
England started their inning and lost the early wicket of
Wickham Solanki. Then set Marcus Trescothick to Michael Vaughan and put 150+
partnership. It was the base to get the victory for England. Michael Vaughan was
the captain of the English team and who played a great inning of 86 with beautiful
boundaries. Marcus, on the other hand, played a magic inning of 81. I have seen both
players were playing amazing cricket in their home soils. Michael Vaughan then became
my star after watched his great knock. Marcus also my favorite English cricketer.
Andrew Strauss finished the game very quickly and England won the game by
saving 21 more bowls in their inning.
Brett Lee took two wickets. But English batsmen were grab
65 runs from him and Glenn Macgrath also failed in their bowling in this match.
Michael Vaughan became the man of the match for his great knock and bowling
performance.
England qualified to the final and Australia were eliminated
from the tournament. However, the England team lost the final match and West Indies became
the winners by defeating them 2 wickets. That tournament was awesome for me in
my childhood and I loved most of the cricketers in all cricket teams. I
hated Australia and I cheer when they lost and match. It was the time I saw
the most powerful Australian team in world cricket. It certifies that they became
3 consecutive world cup winners in 1999,2003 and 2007.
