England’s Joe Root is feeling confident that both recent and distant history have the tournament host ready for revenge in the rematch against Australia in the second semifinal of the World Cup.
England was downed convincingly by its fiercest rivals at Lord’s last month and looked in serious danger of missing the semifinals at its home tournament.
However, back-to-back wins over India and New Zealand turned the tables.
England has lost its last two clashes with Australia, including a warm-up game ahead of the World Cup, but before that Root & Co. had the edge with a series win down under and a 5-0 whitewash on home soil.
“If you look at the past 11 games against them we have won nine,” Root was quoted as saying by the ICC. “These guys and this group over the last four years, their experience against Australia have been very positive and they have got a lot of success in the bank. We will be drawing on the fact that over a long period of time now we have been successful against Australia and we should take that into Thursday.”