EDC vs AAC WCL 2025 Match 3 Highlights: Morgan played an excellent inning but the match got No Result due to Rain

EDC vs AAC WCL 2025 Match 3: Top Performers

Eoin Morgan - 44(37)

When England's champions were losing wickets continuously at a time, England needed a responsible batter to handle the situation, and no one could be better than their captain, Eoin Morgan. The kind of outstanding game Morgan showed is truly praiseworthy. He scored 44 runs in 37 balls with a strike rate of over 118. Apart from this, he also hit three excellent fours and two huge sixes. He played a good innings and led the team to a decent total.

After that, the rest of the batsmen just needed to finish the match a little better; everything else was taken care of by captain Morgan.

Ravi Bopara - 36*(32)

When Ravi Bopara came to bat, England's batting was not going well and was continuously falling wickets, after which he came and formed a good partnership with captain Eoin Morgan. In his innings, he scored 36 runs in 32 balls, with a strike rate of over 112. He also scored two excellent fours which gave England good momentum in the game. It was Ravi Bopara's smart play that helped England improve their inning. He rotated the strike at crucial moments and hit boundaries by hitting bad balls. His good innings led to a 78-run partnership with Morgan, which helped England reach 120 runs in 17 overs.

EDC vs AAC WCL 2025 Match 3: 1st Innings Summary 

After losing the toss and coming in to bat first, England Champions did not have a good start and in the second ball of the match, they lost the wicket of the last match's star Phil Mustard. However, James, who was playing aggressively from the beginning, tried his best to increase the team's score by playing an aggressive innings. After which the England Champions captain Eoin Morgan himself came to bat. Morgan, along with Ravi Bopara, tried their best to get the team out of the difficult situation. 

Both of them played sensibly and took England's innings forward. Both the batsmen displayed their aggressive and natural game. But in the 17th over, Morgan was out after scoring 44 runs. But by then, an important partnership of 78 runs had been formed between the two batters, which led England towards a decent total. However, after 17.1 overs, it started raining heavily again due to which the match could not be completed and it ended without any result.

Key Moment of the Match

1. The loss of Phil Mustard in the very first over was a huge blow for England Champions and an important key moment it was.

2. The 78-run partnership between Ravi Bopara and Morgan was a key moment of this match. 

3. Two wickets of Alastair Cook and Ian Bell fell in two consecutive overs, dealing a major blow to the English champions, in what came as a key moment for Australia.