Australian captain Will Bosisto won the toss and elected to bowl on a bouncy wicket at Tony Ireland Stadium. A fantastic all-round bowling effort from the Australian side saw them restrict the tournament front runners to 143. <img alt="" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/aug/Gurinder-Sandhu.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 447px; " /> Gurinder Sandhu Australia struck early with West Australia&#39;s Joel Paris taking out English danger-man Daniel Bell-Drummond for a duck. Paceman Mark Steketee then claimed the valuable wicket of Ben Foakes (2). New South Wales&rsquo; quick Gurinder Sandhu was well suited to the fast wicket and had a great day with the ball finishing with figures of 9.3-1-27-3. Australia&rsquo;s run chase got off to a shaky start with the openers James Peirson and Cameron Bancroft falling in the first two overs to a sharp opening spell by the English opening attack. Bosisto and hard-hitting left-handed batsman Travis Head combined well for a match-winning fourth wicket stand enabling Australia to cruise to victory with 15 overs to spare. Head, who was awarded Man of the Match, hit a solid 57. Indians in action today India kick start their campaign today when they take on the West Indies. Captain Unmukt Chand appeared confident of his task. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a very strong feeling that we want to win this World Cup. We&rsquo;ve put in a lot of hard effort for two years &hellip; this is the final thing. It&rsquo;s an emotional thing. We are not thinking of ourselves as individual players,&rdquo; he was quoted as saying in ESPN Cricinfo.u00a0

Australia under-19 kicked off their defence of the ICC under-19 cricket World Cup with a six-wicket win against old enemy England on Saturday.

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