In this memorable match of the Champions Trophy 2025, Australia registered a spectacular victory by defeating England by five wickets. While achieving the huge target of 352 runs, Josh Inglis batted brilliantly and scored a century in just 77 balls, which is the joint fastest century in the history of this tournament. Although England’s Ben Duckett played a historic inning of 165 runs, his efforts went in vain. Inglis’s unbeaten innings and his 146-run partnership with Alex Carey led Australia to their first Champions Trophy win since 2009.
The England team, which was in poor form before the tournament, batted brilliantly in this match. Ben Duckett played an excellent inning of 165 runs, which became the highest individual score by any batsman in the history of Champions Trophy. Along with him, Joe Root scored 68 runs and together they took England to a big score of 351/8. However, England’s bowlers could not convert this performance into a win, especially when dew played a key role in the second innings.
Chasing the target of 352 runs, Australia was soon dealt a blow by Joffra Archer when he caught Travis Head out. Mark Wood gave England its second success by dismissing Steve Smith with his fast bowling. However, Marnus Labuschagne and Matthew Short batted aggressively to rescue the team from the initial shock and took the score to 76/2 in the powerplay.
England tried to control the run rate with spin bowling and Adil Rashid gave a big blow by dismissing Labuschagne. Matthew Short completed his fifty, but gave an easy catch to Liam Livingstone.
Josh Inglis and Alex Carey batted intelligently and adopted good strategies against the England spinners. Both took risks and scored quickly, which kept Australia’s run rate balanced. England’s troubles increased when Joffra Archer had to leave the field. Taking advantage of this opportunity, English and Kerry increased the pace of runs.
The situation became worse for England when Archer came back but could not make much of an impact with the bowling due to dew. During this, English completed his century and Kerry also scored a half-century.
After a partnership of 146 runs, Brydon Carse dismissed Carey, but Australia’s victory was almost certain as soon as Glenn Maxwell came on the field. Maxwell finished the match with 32 runs in 15 balls and Australia won by five wickets in the 48th over.
This win is a big achievement for Australia and shows how strong they are in ICC tournaments. England will have to improve their bowling so that they can perform better in the next matches. The tournament is still over and both the teams will try to sharpen their strategies.
