Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Carey pulls off a screamer, Salt departs; AUS strike early

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Speaking on Smith’s promotion, Buttler said, “He’s obviously got the game technically and tactically, but I think the head on his shoulders seems to be one of the biggest strengths. Nothing seems to faze him too much. I think you could ask him to bat anywhere in the line-up and it wouldn’t phase him.”

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The Aussies are in poor batting form. Head is in good form but doesn’t have a reliable partner in Short or McGurk. Short (197 runs in 13 matches with one fifty), and Fraser McGurk (98 runs in seven matches with the best score of 41) have failed to deliver long knocks in ODIs.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Harry Brook will be key for England. He is England’s vice captain but was in poor form vs India, averaging 16.66 in the ODI series, and failed vs spin. But he will be strong in flatter decks, which come in today, and could have a huge impact for England. He also got his maiden ODI ton vs the Aussies.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Buttler feels Archer is ready to make his comeback. Speaking ahead of the match, he said, “He’s been fit and firing now for 18 months or so since being out of the game for a while. He’s really excited to put together that kind of length of time back on the field, and he’s obviously a superstar of the game for us. He is someone, as a captain, you always know you can turn to and throw the ball. He’s obviously going to be really looking forward to the game tomorrow.”

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Speaking ahead of the match, Head said, “I’m going to have my work cut out for me with some of that fast bowling England have got. They’re high quality, highly skilled and high pace. I’ve got to make sure I start well, earn the right, and see where the game takes us. I’m just worried about making sure I start well for the team.”

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Spencer Johnson has played in only three ODIs for more than a year, and has replaced Starc at the front and back of an innings. All eyes will be on him, and he will look to make his mark vs England.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Australia and England met in a five-match ODI series last year in September, where the Aussies registered a thrilling 3-2 series win. However, a lot has changed from that side, as Australia are without a majority of their key players due to injuries. The men in yellow will rely significantly on their star batters, Travis Head and captain Smith, who is the backbone of the middle-order.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Here are the squads of both sides:

Australia: Steve Smith (capt), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Tanveer Sangha, Matthew Short, Adam Zampa. Travelling reserve: Cooper Connolly.

England XI: Phil Salt, Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith (wk), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler (capt), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: England faced largely one-sided defeats in all of their matches in the ODIs against India this month, but their spinner Adil Rashid has insisted that the side is not dwelling too much on its recent performances. “Regardless of what happened in India, we’ve got that belief that we’ve got the talent, we’ve got the world-class players, the match-winners in the squad to win the tournament,” Rashid said.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Jos Buttler’s England may not be struggling with injuries, but their recent form raises concerns. England faced a 3-0 series defeat to India away, where they appeared out-of-sorts, with a stark difference in quality visible between them and the hosts. To add to their woes, controversy erupted when Ravi Shastri and Kevin Pietersen bashed England for not taking part in a single training session after the first ODI of the three-match series.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: In the absence of Pat Cummins, Steve Smith has returned to captaincy for the Aussies. Interestingly, Smith was Australia’s captain in the last edition of the Champions Trophy in 2017, too. Luck didn’t favour the side in that edition, though, as they endured two wash-outs and lost to England on the DLS method to bow out of the tournament in the group stage.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The reigning world champions enter the tournament severely depleted, missing five key players from their original squad. Their formidable pace trio – Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Mitchell Starc – has been ruled out, leaving a significant void in their fast-bowling arsenal. Adding to their woes, all-rounders Mitchell Marsh and Cameron Green are sidelined with injuries, while Marcus Stoinis delivered a shock by retiring from the format despite being named in the initial squad.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Australia and England are the last to begin their campaign at the Champions Trophy. On Friday, South Africa defeated Afghanistan comprehensively in Group B. The first two matches saw New Zealand and India cruising to wins in Group A, defeating Pakistan and Bangladesh, respectively.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of Match 4 of the Champions Trophy, as two arch-rivals, Australia and England, are set to kickstart their respective campaigns. Australia, led by stand-in captain Steve Smith, are struggling with injury issues, while England have been out-of-form in the format, arriving in Pakistan on the back of a 3-0 clean-sweep defeat to India earlier this month.