Steve Smith played like a star as Australia retained the Ashes by outclassing the hosts England in the fourth Test at Old Trafford. 18-month after the ball tampering case which almost took his career out of his hands, Steve Smith proved once again why he is one of the most important players in the Australian team.

England, all out for mere 67 runs in their first innings, were reeling under deep trouble with 286-9 in their second innings, needing 73 more runs to win the game. Ben Stokes took hold of one end and took his team to victory.

Cricket.com.au later on posted a video of the same. In the video, Archer plays a straight drive just like Smith and then he goes on to leave the ball in exactly the same manner as Smith.

Umpire Kumar Dharmsena, who awarded England six runs for the overthrow in the last over of New Zealand vs England World Cup 2019 final, has admitted to the error and said that one less run must have been given on that ball to England.

England Captain Eoin Morgan admitted that the process of selecting a winner in the World Cup 2019 was not fair and he is not happy with a win like that. England and New Zealand played out a match that was tied twice - first in regular play and then in the Super Over - and Morgan’s side won the title on the basis of their superior tally of boundaries in the match.

Days after many raised eyebrows on extra overthrow run credited to England's account, the International Cricket Council (ICC) finally spoke out over the controversy during the recently concluded New Zealand vs England Final World Cup 2019 game at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

In the end, it was England who became the world champions by lifting the ICC World Cup 2019 trophy amid a lot of sensational drama folding the match to a tie, then tie in super-over too. It doesn’t get closer than this, beating a side on the number of boundaries hit in the innings.

Australia will be facing England in the second semi-final game of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 on Thursday at Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Australia will now face fierce rival England in the semi-finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 after they lost their last league match against South Africa by 10 runs, slipping to second spot on the points table.

India's bowling coach Sanjay Bangar has said that Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is now fully recovered from the hamstring injury that he had received during the match against Pakistan.