Mitchell Starc has won all four of the World Cup and World Championship cricket showdowns in which he's featured - and he was damned if he wasn't going to give it everything to maintain that proud record.
On a fraught Friday when Australia needed their main men to stand up and be counted at Lord's, nobody stood taller than the 35-year-old pacer - or should that really be allrounder - as he produced another performance deserving of a global triumph.
Starc not only delivered a tremendous half-century in a dogged last-wicket stand with Josh Hazlewood but then snapped up the two key early wickets that looked set to ensure they'd race to the mace.
