Mitchell Starc bowls a picture-perfect yorker to remove Ben Stokes

While many saw this World Cup as redemption for David Warner and Steve Smith, who returned to Australia side after their 12-month bans, it was kind of a bizarre tournament for the Australian team in total. Though they lost only two matches in the league stages, to India and South Africa and won the remaining, they didn’t play their best cricket as a unit.

But when they faced their nemesis England at Lord’s in the league stages, Mitchell Starc rose upto the occasion. Chasing 286 to win, England were wholly dependent on Ben Stokes, who was playing a lone hand after Jason Behrendorff and Starc had blown away the top order.  He had made 89 runs in 115 balls and at one time looked like he could do it.

However, Starc produced the ball of the match, a searing reverse swinging yorker, which snaked back into the batsman and bowled him neck and crop. Stokes jammed his bat, which came down too late and he lost the grip of his bat and even kicked it in the sorrow of losing his wicket.