Mitchell Starc's day started with a sledge over breakfast and finished with him having notched another entry in his World Cup hall of fame with a delivery for the ages to castle mount Stokes.
Hours before Starc speared the swinging yorker below Stokes' bat, to get rid of England's last hope of chasing down Australia's total, he had his morning shortly interrupted at the team edifice by a guest WHO had many words to share concerning some robust on his elbow and his alternative of food: 3 stewed eggs.
Starc's married woman, Alyssa Healy, mentioned the breakfast chat on Twitter - thanking the person in question, later confirmed to be English, for firing him up - and Starc laughed it off once the match as all "good fun" locution he was "still half-asleep" once it happened.
"Someone was having a go at my robust tape and having a go at my bowling," he said. "I was simply hungry. He was simply having amusing at my robust tape and what i used to be uptake. It's all been smart fun throughout the tour round the crowds and at the edifice. It's simply half and parcel of a World Cup."
It was no surprise that Starc was in gay mood having bagged four for forty three to require his World Cup haul to nineteen wickets at eighteen.26 and a strike-rate of twenty.4. he's currently eighth on the list of World Cup wicket-takers with forty one wickets in mere fifteen matches at a mean of thirteen.92, well earlier than those higher than him within the list, and will not have bowled several higher deliveries than the ball to get rid of Stokes four years once the combine had been concerned in Stokes' obstructing the sphere dismissal on this ground.
"We had a touch of amusing that i feel the last time we tend to vie each other at this ground was that one that came back at him," Starc aforesaid. "He's an incredible player and he is one among their key batters. looking at that game against Ceylon, he nearly got them home there thereupon 80-odd he scored. we tend to knew whereas he was batting that we tend to could not simply rest up, we tend to could not cruise. we tend to had to undertake and take that wicket [and] fortuitously got one through the gate however he was batting fabulously well nowadays.
"I've got a fairly easy one-day set up and it's all concerning execution. To execute that ball specifically however I wished to was pleasing on behalf of me, however simply pleasing to induce the result."
Australia area unit currently safely within the semi-finals with 2 cluster games remaining, consecutive of that is on Sabbatum against native rivals New Seeland WHO area unit unconquered within the tournament.
"They area unit enjoying some fantastic cricket, they need very gone below the measuring instrument," Starc aforesaid. "No one has spoken an excessive amount of concerning them and that they keep winning games. they have a powerful facet batting and bowling, Kane Williamson is their linchpin within the middle there and they have bowlers WHO swing the ball.
"It's another game for America, clearly we've cemented our spot within the semis currently, we would like to undertake and end as high as we will and play some dedicated cricket headed towards the finals series. they are important for America."