Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Drinks break and England have bounced back well in this innings courtesy some counter-attacking batting from Ben Duckett, while Joe Root is here to play the anchor’s role. ENG 113/2 in 16 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Ben Duckett charged down the ground and smashed Glenn Maxwell for a maximum and 100 up for England. Australia have lost the grip as Duckett and Root are finding boundaries at ease. ENG 102/2 in 14 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Glenn Maxwell into the attack and Ben Duckett finds a boundary to take England forward. The lack of strike bowlers might hurt Australia later in the game. 7 runs came off the over. ENG 87/2 in 12 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Joe Root finds the gap and hits a boundary to keep the scoreboard moving at a healthy rate. 7 runs came off Nathan Ellis’ overs and it seems like England have managed to recover. ENG 80/2 in 11 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Last ball of the powerplay raced away for a boundary. Ben Duckett drove Ben Dwarhuis for a boundary through the cover. The left-arm paceman has already bowled half of his quota. England have managed a good run rate in the powerplay despite losing a couple of wickets. ENG 73/2 in 10 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Nathan Ellis continues from the other end, and he delivered a tidy over with just four runs came off it. The run rate has dropped a bit after the two wickets but it’s still over 7. ENG 64/2 in 9 overs

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: OUT!!! JAMIE HAS TO LEAVE NOW! SECOND FOR DWARSHUIS! He sends a full length delivery, and on leg and middle. Smith goes for aerial shot but lobs it to mid-on for a simple catch for Carey again!

Smith c Carey b Dwarshuis 15 (13)

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Jamie Smith drives his first delivery to mid-off, no run. Then he wraps up the second over with a four, slamming Dwarshuis through extra cover for a four! Perfect response after Salt’s wicket!

The third over begins with back-to-back dots, and then Duckett guides Johnson to backward square leg for a double. Another dot and then Duckett takes a single. Johnson ends the over with a dot.

ENG: 20/1 (3)

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: WHAT A CATCH! THAT WAS INCREDIBLE! CAREY, WHO WE SEE AS A WICKETKEEPER USUALLY, PULLS OFF A SENSATIONAL ONE HERE!

Dwarshuis sends it full, on leg. Salt goes leg-side and smacks it over mid-on. He didn’t time it well. Carey runs behind and dives to pull off a screamer! WHAT A CATCH AT MID-ON!

Salt c Carey b Dwarshuis 10 (6)

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The opening over begins with Johnson sends a length ball, angling away and it goes past Salt and the diving wicketkeeper, who gets a glove to it. It deflects between first slip and second, one run, byes. One run. Then leg byes again, one run as Duckett is late, and ball goes to backward square leg off his thigh pad. Johnson responds with back-to-back dots. Then Johnson sends it full, on off. Salt hammers it to mid-off for a four! Then he clobbers Johnson over cow corner for a maximum!

ENG: 12/0 (1)

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The action begins! Salt and Duckett to open for England as the first innings begins! Meanwhile, Johnson will bowl the opening over for Australia.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Time for national anthems! Both teams walk out from the tunnel to the field! First England, and then Australia!

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: AUS – Matthew Short, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis(w), Alex Carey, Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson

ENG – Philip Salt, Ben Duckett, Jamie Smith(w), Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(c), Liam Livingstone, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

Speaking after winning the toss, Smith said, “We’re gonna have a bowl.. Looks a pretty good surface. There’s a bit of dew when we were practising, so we’ll like to chase later on. Short, Head, myself, Marnus, Inglis, Carey, Maxwell, Dwarshuis, Ellis, Spencer Johnson and Zampa. Little bit of swing up top, we’ll try to utilise that. (Carey) He’s been batting brilliantly.”

Meanwhile, England skipper Buttler stated, “We would have batted, a bit 50-50. Looks a good surface. We are not trying to hide anything. We are really excited. (On Jamie Smith) Very unflappable, has immense talent.”

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: IT IS TOSS TIME! TAILS! Australia captain Smith wins the toss and opts to bowl vs England.

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Toss is coming up folks! Stay tuned! Both captains will arrive for the coin toss at 2:00 PM IST approximately! The stadium is packed and fans are in a state of frenzy as they cheer for their favourite players!

Australia vs England Live Score, ICC Champions Trophy 2025: The pitch is not expected to be spin-friendly which is good news for both sides. In the recent triseries between New Zealand and Pakistan in the same venue in Lahore, the Black Caps amassed 330, and also hunted down SA’s 304 with ease. So we could see some good power-hitting at display here, perfect for McCullum’s aggressive brand of cricket.

Australia have been in poor form in ODIs lately, and have lost their last four games, also failing to get past 200 in any of those fixtures. The batting line-up is out of confidence, but they do have Head, Smith, Labuschagne and Maxwell in that order. Meanwhile, the bowling department is also under the scanner with the absences of Starc, Cummins and Hazlewood.

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.