UK Historic Win Against Australia
UK Historic Win Against Australia: It was an impressive victory for the English team as they beat Australia by 242 runs to make their biggest ODI win after posting a record total of 481/6 at Trent Bridge, sealing the series with two games to play. Incidentally, this is Australia’s heaviest one-dyer defeat.
Magnificent centuries from Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales powered England to world record men’s ODI score of 481 for 6, including the fastest ODI fifty for them by Eoin Morgan off 21 balls on his way to on his way to 67 of 30 balls.
English batsmen smashed 21 sixes and 41 fours in becoming the first side to reach 450 in ODI history. Only once in the history of List A cricket. On the same ground where England plundered the previous record 444 for 3 against Pakistan in August 2016.
While Australian players fell to 239 against England as English bowlers completely dominated the game after their batsmen had tremendously performed while batting first, Adil Rashid took four important wickets in the match of records.
Faced with a massive target of 482, Australia — missing star batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner, after the former captain and his deputy were both given year-long bans for their roles in March’s ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town — slumped to 239 all out with 13 overs remaining.
England spinners Adil Rashid (four for 47) and Moeen Ali (three for 28), with a mountain of runs behind them, shared seven wickets.
“To operate at that level throughout the whole game was as close to a complete performance as we’ve ever got to,” said Morgan at the presentation ceremony.
Hales, the man-of-the-match on his Nottinghamshire home ground, after making 171 for England against Pakistan at Trent Bridge two years ago, added: “That’s as good as it gets, both personally and from a team perspective”.
But for Australia this was an 8th loss in nine matches at this level against England, the world’s top-ranked ODI side.
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