England beat Cameroon 3-0 to set up a date against Norway in the quarterfinals of the Women's World Cup -- but VAR once again dominates the postmatch debate.

Phil Neville's team took the lead in the 14th minute when Cameroon goalkeeper Annette Ngo Ndom was adjudged to have picked up a deliberate back pass from defender Augustine Ejangue. The free kick was placed on the edge of the six-yard box, but Steph Houghton still expertly found the bottom corner.

It was 2-0 deep into first-half stoppage time -- thanks to the intervention of the VAR. Lucy Bronze played Ellen White through the middle, and though the striker fired home past Ngo Ndom the offside flag went up. A VAR review correctly awarded the goal with White behind the last defender.

However, when the incident was replayed on the big screen inside the stadium, the Cameroon players saw an England player in an offside position (but she was not interfering with play) and launched a furious protest.

Their anger was more pronounced straight after half-time when Ajara Nchout scored to bring the African side back into the game. But a VAR check then showed she was inches offside and the goal was chalked off. Nchout was infuriated and had to be calmed down by her coach, Alain Djeumfa.

England added a third through defender Alex Greenwood, who swept in a first-time effort from a well worked corner in the 58th minute to rub salt into the wounds.

England now face Norway in Le Havre on Thursday in the last-eight.

Justin Langer has hit back at criticism of the Australian side's approach during the World Cup and backed his players' form and game plans as they prepare to face England at Lord's on Tuesday.

Australia have lost one game - against India - in their campaign, compared to England's two defeats at the hands of Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but despite this Langer believes the hosts are still favourites.

"Just look at their team," Langer said at Australia's training session at Merchant Taylors School. "Nothing has changed in a week."

"We have seen how they played for four years. They are the best team in the world. I'm not really worried [about] what England are doing. It sounds like a coach's cliché but it is the dead truth. We are concentrating on what we are doing. We are doing okay but we can get better."

"I saw Buttler at Somerset and he is an unbelievable athlete and an incredible finisher. He is the new Dhoni of world cricket"

A win for Australia at Lord's would heap added pressure on England, who are yet to face the two undefeated sides of the tournament, India and New Zealand, and Langer expects the match to be decided by which team can best deal with their nerves.

"You can look at it two ways," Langer said. "We all have a bit to do. They have three games. They will be tough games but it will be like that in the semi-final. They should be welcoming that. If you are nice and battle hardened, then you might be weary, but you will be ready for the contest. For both teams, it is a good thing. We have England, New Zealand and South Africa, teams we have had good contests with. It is a positive for whoever makes the semis, if they are playing tough cricket going into it.

"This tournament is going to be about who can hold their nerve in the big moments. We have got to concentrate on how we hold our nerve in the big moments. There are going to be plenty of them in the next three games and hopefully the semi-final.

"I have said for 6-8 months, when it comes to a World Cup there is a lot of talk about statistics, but it comes down to match play and we have to play England on Tuesday better than they play us."

Australia have been forced to tinker with their line-up because of a side strain that kept allrounder Marcus Stoinis out for two matches while David Warner has admitted to struggling with fluency despite scoring two centuries and Usman Khawaja appeared to be less comfortable when coming in to bat down the order. And although they have faced questions surrounding the selection and form of some players, they have also ground out some of their wins without necessarily playing at their peak and now sit at No. 2 on the table. Langer was pleased with where they stood in the tournament but expressed his frustration at some criticism.

"It is satisfying," Langer said. "But everyone knows whatever we do people will try to pick holes in it. If Uzzie had not made runs the other day we would have been smashed but he did and nobody said anything. That is life. That is okay. That is the business we are in.

"It is easy being a commentator."

Australia have generally taken a more conservative approach at the start of their innings, particularly with Warner scoring at a slower rate upon his return to ODIs. But Langer pointed to the way his side has improved over the months leading into the World Cup as proof their tactics are working.

"We have a game plan," Langer said. "We just got 381. It has been a long time since Australia got 381. There have been a lot of critics saying we can't do that. But I have maintained for a long time that if we stick to our game plan and conditions are right we will be ok. We have done that for the last six months or so and hopefully we will keep doing that."

In Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins, Australia have one of the most potent new-ball attacks in the tournament but Langer was nevertheless wary of England's batting prowess, particularly in the form of Jos Buttler.

"Jos Buttler is an unbelievable player. I love watching him bat. I hope he gets a duck in this game obviously, but I saw him at Somerset and he is an unbelievable athlete and an incredible finisher. He is the new Dhoni of world cricket. We know we will have to be on our game. But they have a number of players. Stokes, Morgan, even Woakes at the end smacks them over point all the time and pulls well. They have a very strong batting unit and we will have to be right on it."

Jason Roy is to undergo a second scan on his torn hamstring on Monday morning.

Roy sustained the injury while fielding in the match against West Indies in Southampton on June 14. While the England camp were coy about the severity of the tear, they did express the hope that he would be fit to return to action before the end of the group stages. They have subsequently admitted, however, that the match against India - on June 30 - was probably the earliest possible date for his return.

Roy did not attend training with the rest of the squad on Sunday and is unlikely to be considered available for selection for Tuesday's match against Australia at Lord's. Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, has previously confirmed no chances will be taken with Roy's fitness and he will not be recalled until he has had a chance to prove his fitness. Roy also missed the start of the season after sustaining a hamstring injury during the ODI series in the Caribbean.

Roy's absence has been keenly felt by the England side. He has passed 50 five times in his six most recent ODI innings, 100 three times in his eight most recent, and has recorded the second-highest score (153 against Bangladesh) of the World Cup to date. His replacement, James Vince, has a top score of 51 in 10 ODIs and has scored 26 and 14 in his two innings in this tournament.

While the second scan is largely routine - the England medical team are keen to gain a clearer picture of how Roy is healing and how much longer he may be unavailable - there is a possibility the results will end Roy's involvement in the World Cup. Although the England management are keenly aware of Roy's value, they will know they cannot carry a player who has little possibility of recovering in time to play a meaningful part.

England will need to win at least one, and possibly two, of their remaining group games if they are to qualify for the semi-finals. Their final group match is against New Zealand, in Durham, on July 3. The semi-finals take place on July 9 and 11.

Roy has not trained since the incident. While he has generally appeared at training - he has sometimes refereed the inter-squad football matches and did have half-a-dozen throw-downs the day before the game in Leeds - the England management have been keen to prevent him running or doing anything else to exacerbate the injury. If Roy is ruled out of the rest of the tournament, Joe Denly and Dawid Malan would appear to be the most likely replacements.

Pakistan 308 for 7 (Haris 89, Babar 69, Tahir 2-41) beat South Africa 259 for 9 (du Plessis 63, Wahab 3-46, Shadab 3-50) by 49 runs
As it happened

An inspired, backs-to-the-wall performance from Pakistan knocked South Africa out of the 2019 World Cup.

Pakistan let sense prevail in their selections for this game, and a re-jigged XI collected a vital, 49-run victory. Haris Sohail, drafted in place of Shoaib Malik, showed just what Pakistan had been missing by blasting 89 of the most sublimely-timed runs so far witnessed in this tournament. His innings added further impetus after an 81-run opening stand between Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman, gluing Pakistan's middle together alongside Babar Azam, who contributed 69. Haris then added 71 with Imad Wasim (with Imad, contributing just 23, mostly at the other end), and thanks to his nine fours and three sixes, Pakistan were able to take 91 from the last 10 and soar to 308 for 7.

South Africa have never successfully chased 300-plus in a World Cup: the highest total they've ever overhauled is India's 296 in Nagpur in 2011. And they haven't chased a 300-plus target in any ODI in nearly three years, the last time being against Australia in Durban in October 2016.

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Mohammad Amir and Shadab Khan struck repeatedly to overcome their top order and ensure this would not be a historic occasion for South Africa, and a reverse-swinging, low-armed Wahab Riaz then did as he does best, skittling the lower order at the death with the required rate skyrocketing.

Amir finished with 2 for 49, taking his World Cup tally to 15 dismissals, which is the combined haul of Jofra Archer and Mitchell Starc, who have both played one more game than him. He has almost as many as his team-mates have taken in total, and more than anyone else.

While it was Amir who made the first decision, troubling Hashim Amla's front pad with a first-over indipper, it was Shadab who pressed the issue with two vital strikes in the space of four overs: first he had a slogging Quinton de Kock caught at midwicket, just shy of a third World Cup fifty, and then he bowled a clueless Aiden Markram, whose struggles against quality spin continued.

When Markram fell, South Africa were 103 for 3, needing well over seven an over, and Shadab had 2 for 17, including a wicket maiden. He ended with 3 for 50, having also had an increasingly desperate Rassie van der Dussen caught by Hafeez off a slogged top edge - his best figures of the tournament, and numbers which marked a timely turnaround. Before today, Shadab was averaging a whopping 53.9 in ODIs this year, and Pakistan's spinners were leaking 75.3 runs per wicket in the middle overs of this World Cup, comfortably the worst for any spin unit. But on a tufty, dry Lord's surface, both he and Imad found encouragement, and combined for 3 for 98 from 20.

South Africa found no respite at the other end. The spirit went out of their chase when Faf du Plessis' last stand was cut short on 63 by Amir. He had scrapped his way to fifty, but the required rate was nearing 8.5 thanks to the good work of the spinners, and something had to give. Sarfaraz brought Amir back, and with his third ball he ensured South Africa's captain would not go down with his ship, inducing a steepling top edge that just about touched the gloomy clouds that had settled in over St John's Wood before plummeting back down to be easily pouched by Sarfaraz.

David Miller, having tweaked his hamstring in the field earlier, hobbled to the crease in a cacophany of sound as Pakistan's fans, who packed the stands, sensed victory. He and van der Dussen swung gamely to add another 53 for the fifth wicket, but with every over the asking rate climbed.

With 15 overs to go and South Africa needing almost ten an over, all Pakistan had to do was stick to the basics, keep it tight, and let scoreboard pressure do the rest. But Pakistan aren't a team who like to make things simple for themselves, and several lapses in the field repeatedly let South Africa off the hook and back into the game. In total, no less than six chances were grassed as South Africa went down swinging - yet more evidence that Pakistan's standards in the field have dipped since Steve Rixon's departure.

But today, there was enough brilliance with the ball to make up for it. Shadab saw the back of van der Dussen, Miller missed a swipe at Shaheen Afridi and was bowled, and Wahab did the business to scythe through the lower order, Andile Phehlukwayo playing a lone hand with 46 not out. South Africa's campaign whimpered to a close, and Pakistan's was kept alive with a vital win.

There was also, for a change, plenty of brilliant batting to go around. Pakistan's batting has lacked a century-maker in this World Cup - unlike the teams that currently occupy the top four points on the table - and no one made a hundred today either, but a far more fluent performance from the top order ultimately gave the bowlers the sort of total they need to put the squeeze on in the second innings.

Imam kicked things off at a good lick, showing that his cover driving is in excellent working order and outscoring Fakhar Zaman in the early exchanges. Though neither reached fifty, Imran Tahir rolling back the years to dismiss both of them for 44 (including a remarkable one-handed stunner off his own bowling), Babar Azam was soon ticking, and helped to weather the loss of Mohammad Hafeez for 20.

But the innings really belonged to Haris, who walked to the crease with intent and batted with the same vim, bursting out of the blocks with two fours and a six in his first 10 balls. While Babar raised a mid-tempo, 61-ball fifty at the other end, Haris showed he had all the shots. Crisp through the off side, and particularly behind point, he was increasingly brutal to leg. A ramped uppercut brought him a 38-ball fifty - his first in World Cup cricket - and he just kept accelerating. A second six was chipped over Duminy's head at long off, while a third was slugged over midwicket.

Ngidi pulled things back a little with an exemplary final over, dismissing Wahab with his first ball and Haris with his fifth, but by then the damage had been done. Pakistan had a total which inspired them to believe, while South Africa's chase lacked belief almost throughout.

Netherlands 199 for 6 (Van der Merwe 75*, Cooper 54) beat Zimbwbwe 150 (Ervine 59, Glover 3-20, Seelaar 3-28, Klaassen 3-38) by 49 runs

He walked in after Netherlands lost two wickets for three runs. He walked back with his highest T20I score and the biggest hand in a thumping victory. Roelof van der Merwe whacked an unbeaten 75 off only 39 balls to keep his team's perfect record against Zimbabwe in the ongoing limited-overs series.

Netherlands had beaten Zimbabwe 2-0 in the ODIs and showed no signs of letting up after they were put in to bat. Ben Cooper struck a rip-roaring 54 off 28 balls, with five fours and two sixes, but his efforts were thoroughly put to shade when van der Merwe came in and clattered Zimbabwe all round the park. The left-hander made 50 of his 75 runs in boundaries as Netherlands soared to 199 for 6.

Zimbabwe made a decent start to their chase with Craig Ervine making a half-century of his own, but having set themselves up at 105 for 4 at the end of 13 overs, their innings completely unraveled. They lost five wickets for only 21 runs as Pieter Seelaar and Fred Klaassen swung the game In quite decisive fashion. The tail hung around for a while but in the end they were bowled out 50 runs short of their target and one ball short of the full 20 overs.

Heading into the World Cup, it was England's batting that was perceived as their strength. It was a reasonable assumption, too, based on a succession of vast scores that had taken them to the No. 1 world ranking.

The reputation of their bowling attack was more modest. It looked sound, certainly, but appeared to lack the potential match-winners that studded that batting line-up. It sometimes seemed England were resigned to conceding vast scores, but confident their batsmen could score one more.

Now? Well, they have two bowlers in the top five wicket-takers in the World Cup. Their two opening bowlers have delivered the two fastest deliveries of the tournament. And they have two men in the top five of the bowling averages (with a minimum of eight wickets) and four men in the top 14 economy rates (with a minimum of 28 overs). Irrespective of the results - we'll come on to that - you could make a case arguing they are a stronger, better-balanced side.

Key to that improvement has been the emergence of Jofra Archer. Coming from a nation (Barbados) that has an incredible record of developing fast bowlers to a nation (England) with an incredible record of breaking them, his qualification has been received like a starving man coming upon an all you can eat restaurant. His arrival has not only given England's attack a cutting edge they have lacked for a long time but his partnership with Mark Wood, every bit as quick but shorter and therefore presenting different challenges, has given England a partnership to savour. They have, between them, 27 wickets in this tournament. Wood with 12 (at an average of 16.91 and an economy-rate of 4.75) and Archer with 15 (at an average of 17.93 and an economy-rate of 4.90). Nobody has more than him.

Underlining his potency and consistency, Archer has claimed three-wicket hauls in five of the six matches England have played in the tournament. He is dangerous with the new ball, dangerous when he comes back in mid-innings and as good as they have at the death. It is a fine effort for a man new to international cricket.

Tuesday offers another 'first' for Archer. He has yet to play against Australia in international cricket and he didn't bowl in the warm-up game against them in Southampton. This will be, then, a first serious introduction to the oldest rivalry in the international game.

Not that he is a stranger to many of the opposition. He has played with or against many of them in various T20 leagues and hopes that, despite his inexperience at international level, he can provide some tactical insight to his team. Notably, he and Ben Stokes played alongside Steve Smith at Rajasthan Royals. And while Archer describes Smith as a friend, it is clear that relationship will be shelved until the game is over.

"He's a really good guy," Archer says of Smith. "Cricket is cricket and I guess there is time to be friends after the game. But until the game is over, there will be nothing friendly about it.

"I didn't bowl at him much in the nets during the IPL. A lot of the guys probably don't want to face me in the nets. They like the side-arm and the throws.

"But when you play with people, you pick up on things you won't normally notice when you're just playing against them. So hopefully me and Stokes can get together - I think we might bowl together at some point - as we probably know what to do when he's in.

"We're pretty up for the game. The guys weren't too down about the last game. The guys were a bit more surprised than anything. We know that anything can happen on the day and Sri Lanka bowled really well. We just have to try to make wrong things right."

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So, with the bowling attack now offering similar match-winning potential to the batting line-up, why is it that England's progress is in jeopardy? Well, if this was South Africa we were talking about, you can guarantee the 'choke' word would have cropped up by now. And there was something about the nervous fielding at The Oval - a key ingredient in the defeat against Pakistan - and the nervous run-chase at Headingley - a key ingredient in the defeat against Sri Lanka - that supported such a theory. It might be remembered that England suffered an attack of stage fright in the Champions Trophy semi-final of 2017 and, perhaps, in the final of 2013, too.

Maybe that's not surprising. A huge amount has been invested in this England side: they have been charged, among other things, with inspiring a new generation of supporters to the game and reviving the sport in this country. To do that, they are expected not just to win, but to win with style and a smile. All of a sudden, the burden of expectation and hope from a nation that has never won this trophy - and which may well never have another realistic chance - is starting to weigh heavily. In that context, it's hardly surprising Jason Roy has been sent for a second scan on his hamstring. England are very keen to have him back for Sunday's match against India.

While Archer admits semi-final qualification has become "tighter than we would have liked" he has chosen to interpret England's current situation as a positive. As he sees it - as the entire camp see it - they no longer have a chance to dwell or dither: they simply have to seize the moment and fling themselves into every match with the positivity and confidence that took them to No. 1 in the rankings. It's less than a year since they defeated Australia 5-0 in an ODI series, after all, though this Australia looks substantially stronger.

"I think this is a chance to really see where our game is," Archer said. "They're at the top of the table and more than likely to go through. So if we get through, we should be OK to pretty much win anything. If we could beat them now and then have to play them again we'll be OK.

"We just need to keep playing the cricket we've been playing for the last couple of years and we'll be fine. There is no need to try and change anything after one loss."

He's probably right. And while this Australia team looks much improved from the one whitewashed last year, England didn't have Archer in the side then. This looks set to be a high-quality encounter with plenty of context. It is, in short, exactly what the World Cup should be about.

The Tampa Bay Rays placed right-handed reliever Diego Castillo on the 10-day injured list with inflammation in his right shoulder and sent him back to Tampa to get checked out by team doctors.

Castillo blew his first save of the season on Thursday when he allowed a game-ending three-run home run by the Oakland Athletics' Matt Chapman and also took the loss on Saturday when he allowed two runs in the bottom of the seventh against Oakland.

Manager Kevin Cash told reporters that a physical issue came up in his outing on Saturday night.

Castillo leads the Rays with seven saves this season but is 1-6 with a 3.93 ERA.

The Rays recalled right-hander Hunter Wood from Triple-A Durham in a corresponding move. Wood was 1-1 with a save and a 2.11 ERA in 13 appearances earlier this season for the Rays.

BOSTON -- Red Sox infielder Brock Holt has left Sunday's game against Toronto in the fourth inning with left hamstring tightness.

Holt singled with one out in the second, advanced on Christian Vazquez's single and was cut down at the plate by left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr.'s throw while trying to score on Jackie Bradley Jr.'s single.

Holt was replaced by Eduardo Nunez in the top of the fourth.

Holt has been Boston's hottest hitter since returning from the injured list on May 27, leading the team with a .357 average coming into Sunday.

He went on the IL on April 7 with a scratched right cornea and also injured his right shoulder while on a rehab assignment.