{"id":293907,"date":"2023-11-02T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=293907"},"modified":"2023-11-02T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T18:25:08","slug":"joe-root-dont-let-aussies-knock-us-out-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/%d1%81ricket\/joe-root-dont-let-aussies-knock-us-out-of-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Root: Don&apos;t let Aussies knock us out of World Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Don&#8217;t let Aussies knock us out! England star Joe Root knows the old enemy would love to drive final nail into Poms&#8217; coffin at World Cup<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Joe Root says England still have plenty to play for at the World Cup<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>England could be knocked out before their match with Australia on Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Australian captain Pat Cummins was unable to stifle a grin at England&#8217;s plight\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Root will go into the World Cup clash against Australia with an unequivocal message for England\u2019s struggling cricketers: don\u2019t let this lot knock us out.<\/p>\n<p>Games between the teams have never needed extra context to get the juices flowing. But a combination of last summer\u2019s \u2018Moral Ashes\u2019, the recent sight of Australian captain Pat Cummins unable to stifle a grin when asked about England\u2019s plight, and the prospect of the old enemy driving the final nail into the Poms\u2019 coffin has made defeat unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>England, of course, are already clinging on to their title by the thinnest of threads after five defeats in their first six games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And they could yet be knocked out before their match with Australia on Saturday is over &#8211; though that would need Afghanistan to beat the Netherlands on Friday, and New Zealand to see off Pakistan in Saturday\u2019s earlier match.<\/p>\n<p>But England still have Champions Trophy qualification to play for, which will require a top-eight finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/17\/77332927-12703701-image-a-15_1698947559430.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Joe Root says England still have plenty to play for in their final three matches at the World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/02\/16\/77330237-0-image-a-2_1698944043699.jpg\" height=\"475\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Australian captain Pat Cummins was unable to stifle a grin when asked about England\u2019s plight<\/p>\n<p>Above all, perhaps, there is the question of pride, as they try to relocate the white-ball gusto that has made them double world champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve got three opportunities to get back to that,\u2019 said Root. \u2018What better stage to do it, hopefully, than against Australia? I don\u2019t think any other motivator is required really.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Man for man, I\u2019d have this team every day over the Australians. We might not have played as well as we can, but we know when we play our best stuff that the best teams struggle to compete with us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The obvious retort is that England, currently rooted to the bottom of the 10-team table, have spent the last month plumbing the depths rather than scaling the heights &#8211; so much so that Cummins, smiling broadly, said England\u2019s defeat by Sri Lanka in Bangalore last week had been \u2018sad to see\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Root sounded less amused. \u2018Let\u2019s face it, if it was the other way around, would we be doing the same?\u2019 he said. \u2018Probably. It hurts to be in this position, sat at the bottom of the table. It\u2019s not what we expect of ourselves. But if it motivates us a little bit more, then great.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Root himself has faded badly along with England\u2019s chances. After scores of 77 against New Zealand and 82 against Bangladesh, he has made 11, two, three and, courtesy of what he believes was a controversial leg-before against India in Lucknow &#8211; a duck.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I feel really good in my game, so it\u2019s been frustrating,\u2019 he said. \u2018I\u2019ve had a silly run-out, a caught at leg slip, which is pretty unusual in this format and &#8211; I\u2019ll be careful how I say this &#8211; a dubious lbw decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I looked at the situation against India on that wicket and thought it was laid out perfectly for me to go and win us the game. Saturday is another opportunity to go and score some runs, do what I expect of myself and what the team expects of me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s charge towards the semi-finals, meanwhile, received another blow when all-rounder Mitchell Marsh flew home for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>He told team-mates he intends to return to India \u2018to win this World Cup\u2019, but the news came after the big-hitting Glenn Maxwell was ruled out of the England game with concussion after he fell off the back of a golf buggy.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-12703701\/Dont-let-Aussies-knock-England-star-Joe-Root-knows-old-enemy-love-drive-final-nail-Poms-coffin-World-Cup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Don&#8217;t let Aussies knock us out! 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