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Mitchell Starc was thrilled that Australia were the first team to book their place in the semi-finals of the ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2019 following their victory over England at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\nMitchell Starc was thrilled that Australia were the first team to book their place in the semi-finals of the ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2019 following their victory over England at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Despite already having qualified for the semi-finals \u2013 Starc says there will be no let up from Australia as they take on New Zealand and South Africa in their final two group games.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of cricket to come before semi-final time. We\u2019ve got two really important games but playing here at Lord\u2019s where the final\u2019s going to be has given us confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got another game here against New Zealand, which is going to be tough. They\u2019re playing some fantastic cricket and they\u2019ve really gone under the radar. Nobody\u2019s really spoken too much about them and they keep winning games.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo they\u2019ve got a really strong side, Kane Williamson is their lynchpin in the middle and they have bowlers who swing the ball, so it\u2019s another big game but we\u2019ve cemented our spot in the semis and we want to try and finish as high as we can building towards the final series of matches.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starc was happy to share the bowling laurels with his more unsung fellow left-armer, Jason Behrendorff, who took a five-for in only his second World Cup match.<\/p>\n
\u201cDorff bowled awesome, beautifully, and deserved his five wickets – and it\u2019s great to see him do so well here at Lord\u2019s against England. I\u2019ve bowled a fair bit with Mitchell Johnson in the past and this showed again today that there\u2019s no reason why you can\u2019t play two left armers when the pitch and match-ups suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cDorff actually asked me if there was anything of note about the wicket here and, to be honest, I didn\u2019t have much for him as I haven\u2019t been here for about four years.\u201d<\/p>\n
They key to the victory, felt Starc, was the way the Australian bowlers got their lengths right in the England innings. \u201cAfter watching them, as a bowling group we all wanted to bowl a bit fuller and make them drive the ball, and I think we did that really well. It<\/p>\n
was a positive for us to bowl them out and win the game fairly strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n
With typical modesty, he was not making a big deal of the key delivery, a reverse swing yorker, that skittled Ben Stokes just as England\u2019s dangerous all-rounder looked particularly threatening.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a fantastic player, one of their key batters. He nearly got them home against Sri Lanka and so we knew while he was batting that we couldn\u2019t rest up. Fortunately, I got one through the gate,\u201d shrugged Starc.<\/p>\n
Some were hailing it as the delivery of the tournament so far, but Starc insisted: \u201cI\u2019ve got a pretty simple one-day plan and for me its all about execution.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo execute that ball exactly how I wanted and for it to result the way it did was pleasing for me – but it was pleasing to contribute to the whole group.\u201d<\/p>\n
Start also laughed off an incident at breakfast in his team hotel when a supporter \u2018sledged\u2019 him while he was going to eat his three poached eggs.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome bloke in a suit was having a go about my strapping tape on my elbow and about me eating too much and how it was going to affect my bowling!\u201d smiled Starc.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a bit of a click at me – all good fun. I was still half-asleep, didn\u2019t think much of it. It\u2019s all been good fun around the tour, it\u2019s all part and parcel of a World Cup!\u201d
Courtesy: www.icc-cricket.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mitchell Starc was thrilled that Australia were the first team to book their place in the semi-finals of the ICC Men\u2019s World Cup 2019 following their victory over England at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Despite already having qualified for the semi-finals \u2013 Starc says there will be no let up from Australia as they take on New Zealand and South Africa in their final two group games.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of cricket to come before semi-final time. We\u2019ve got two really important games but playing here at Lord\u2019s where the final\u2019s going to be has given us confidence,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket"],"yoast_head":"\n