Lahore: Australia defeated England by 5 wickets in a thrilling match in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 with Josh Inglis' century and Matthew Short's strong fifty. After losing the toss in this match played at Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore, England scored 351 runs with Ben Duckett's record century. In response, the Australian cricket team achieved the target by scoring 356 runs in 47.3 overs with the strong batting of Josh Inglis. With this win, Australia also ended the wait of 5619 days. Australia last won a match in the Champions Trophy on 5 October 2009. This match was the final clash against New Zealand.

Chasing the target, Josh Inglis completed his century in 77 balls for Australia. This was Inglis' first century in ODI cricket. Inglis played a fighting innings for the team and scored an unbeaten 120 runs. In his innings, Inglis faced 86 balls and hit 8 fours and 6 sixes. Before Josh Inglis, Matthew Short also contributed 63 runs in 66 balls for Australia. Along with Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell also played a brilliant cameo innings. Maxwell scored 21 runs in 10 balls for Australia.

Josh Inglis joins the special list for Australia

Along with scoring a century in this exciting clash against England, Josh Inglis also made a special record in his name. Josh Inglis has become the fourth batsman to score a century in all three formats of cricket for Australia. Josh Inglis, born in England, created history by leading the team to victory with his brilliant innings at the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore. Josh Inglis was also awarded the Player of the Match award for his strong batting.

Champions Trophy chase became the biggest score

With this victory of Australia, a new record was also made in the ICC Champions Trophy. In this match, Australia has made the record of making the biggest run chase in the history of Champions Trophy. Not only this, England's team had made the record of making the biggest total of this tournament while batting first, but it was broken in a few hours. This is also the biggest run chase in the history of ICC tournament so far.

Ben Duckett's record century innings went in vain

In this match for England, opener batsman Ben Duckett also made a big record by scoring a century. Ben Duckett played an innings of 165 runs facing 143 balls in this match. This became the biggest innings played by any batsman in the history of ICC Champions Trophy, but despite this, England's team had to face defeat in this match. Ben Duckett broke a 21-year-old record with his batting.