Hazelwood hints Australia could take foot off the gas to knock England out

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Australia's Josh Hazelwood says it's 'in everyone's interest' to see England knocked out of the T20 World Cup, and hinted Australia could take it easy against Scotland to make sure of it.

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00:00England's obviously one of the better teams in the tournament, they're going to be relying

00:04on that run rate to get through to the next stage.

00:08Is it in Australia's interest to, if there's anything that can be done about it in the

00:12Scotland game, to make it as difficult as possible for England to progress?

00:17Yeah, I think so.

00:19In this tournament you potentially come up against England at some stage again and as

00:22you said they're probably one of the top few teams on their day.

00:27We've had some real struggles against them in T20 cricket, so if we can get them out

00:31of the tournament that's in our best interest as well as probably everyone else.

00:34But yeah, it'll be interesting to see, we've never really been in this position before

00:39as a team I don't think, so whether we have discussions or not we'll just try and play

00:43it again the way we did tonight, that'll be up to people, not me.

00:49How do you think it would look like?

00:52Not too sure really, whether you get close and you just knock it around and drag it out.

00:58There's a few options there but as you said, to take confidence from winning and winning

01:04well I think that's almost more important than potentially trying to knock someone else

01:08out.

01:09They've still got a lot to do on their behalf as well, so I think it'll become clearer

01:15the closer we get to that sort of stuff.

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