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England vs Australia LIVE: T20 World Cup latest score and updates from Barbados

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Phil Salt is bowled by Adam Zampa (AP)

England take on Australia in their second match of the T20 World Cup after their opener against Scotland was washed out in Barbados.

The old rivalry between the two nations, which came to a head during the Ashes last summer, will be reignited when they face each other at the Kensington Oval.

England went into the tournament as the defending champions, but their first match was not one they or the tournament would have wanted. Just 10 overs were possible and everyone was left frustrated, including those in red who had two of their four warm up games on home soil washed out without a ball being bowled.

Australia’s preparations have been a bit smoother, they arrived in the Caribbean when England were still facing rain delays at home, but had to use some of their coaching staff to make up numbers in warm-up matches.

Follow all the live action from the T20 World Cup match in the blog below

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England 99-3 (11) Bairstow 3, Ali 2, Stoinis 1-12 (2) – need 103 runs to win

England have gone for experience over youth here with Moeen Ali coming in ahead of Harry Brook.

That’s a great over from Stoinis and he has bowled well again today.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:57

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Wicket! Jacks out for 10! ct Starc b Stoinis – England 96-3

Stoinis is back on to bowl, Bairstow chips again, this time into the leg side but again it falls safe.

Jacks heaves it away leg side, but it’s not timed perfectly and that will also just be a single. Bairstow goes for a big shot and misses the ball.

Jacks goes for the big hit down the ground, Starc runs in and takes a stunning diving catch, it was low and he was coming in at speed and still managed to get his hands under the ball.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:55

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Wicket! Buttler out for 42! ct Cummins b Zampa – England 93-2 (10) Jacks 9, Bairstow 1, Zampa 2-13 (2) – need 109 runs to win

Three runs from the first two balls of Zampa’s over, but England cannot afford to let the required run rate keep creeping up, Buttler is trying the reverse sweeps, he’s hitting them well but just picking out the fielders.

This time he does send the ball down the ground and up and over the fielders for a six with a flick of the wrists.

He goes to the reverse sweep next ball and hits it to the fielder in the ring! That’s the massive wicket of Jos Buttler out for 42!

Zampa and Australia celebrate, and they almost have another the next ball! Bairstow hits the ball in the air but just over the ring.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:48

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England 83-1 (9) Buttler 34, Jacks 8, Cummins 0-15 (2) – need 119 more runs to win

Cummins is back on to bowl, his first over went for just eight runs. There are just singles from the first two balls of the over.

This is a hard stage of the game for England, they can’t let it get away from them. Jacks has his first boundary, he just holds his shot and sends the ball through extra cover to the boundary, it beat Travis Head in the ring for pace.

Just seven runs from the over.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:44

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England 76-1 (8) Buttler 33, Jacks 2, Zampa 1-3 (1) – need 126 runs to win

Will Jacks comes to the crease, and just works away a ball that keeps low for a single.

Buttler has to just defend one away, before adding another single to the total.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:39

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Wicket! Salt out for 37! b Zampa – England 73-1

Zampa strikes with the first ball of his spell! That was a key breakthrough. The ball just clips the bails on the way through and that’s the end of the England opener.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:36

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England 73-0 (7) Salt 37, Buttler 32, Starc 0-37 (3) – need 129 runs to win

England have a six! Salt was caught by Travis Head on the boundary, but his foot was touching the rope, and how important will that be for the batting side?

Buttler goes big again, he only had one hand on the bat at the end of that, but it’s another six, is this the big over that England desperately needed? That one went 88 metres.

Buttler drills another low full toss straight back down the ground, this is a good over as far as England are concerned.

A full toss has just hit the bat and gone absolutely nowhere off Salt’s bat.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:34

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England 54-0 (6) Salt 29, Buttler 21, Stoinis 0-6 (1) – need 148 runs to win

Another bowling change, Stoinis is brought on and Buttler goes big over the top, doesn’t quite get hold of it and it bounces before crossing the rope.

Salt and Buttler both just turn the ball away for singles. It’s a far cry from the six sixes that Australia hit in their batting powerplay.

Wade dives to his right to take a catch, there was a noise but not bat, and that’s the end of the powerplay.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:28

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England 48-0 (5) Salt 28, Buttler 16, Cummins 0-8 (1) – need 154 runs to win

Cummins comes on to bowl, and Salt picks up a couple to deep cover, the next ball he goes over extra cover, Warner gives chase again and it will just be two more.

Another good yorker, and this time Salt can’t find the gap. A wide yorker is carved away again by Salt, it was overpitched and it sails along the turf to the boundary.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:25

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England 40-0 (4) Salt 20, Buttler 16, Hazlewood 0-20 (2) – need 162 runs to win

Hazlewood bowls two dot balls, Salt charges down the pitch, but misses the ball and the pressure just builds, but the next one is cut away behind square for a good boundary.

Salt cuts away again behind square to pick up another four, nine runs from the over.

Sonia Twigg8 June 2024 20:19

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