David Warner and Travis Head piled on a document Melbourne Cricket Floor partnership of 269 earlier than England have been skittled for simply 142 as Australia clinched a 3-0 ODI sequence sweep by inflicting a document 221-run defeat on their opponents.
Head scored 152 whereas opening accomplice Warner made 106 as they struck their third and nineteenth ODI lots of respectively and topped the 225-run partnership Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting had shared in opposition to England on the MCG in 2002.
A few rain showers decreased the sport to 48 overs a facet, with Australia posting 355-5 earlier than England have been set a revised 364 to keep away from a primary clear sweep in a multi-match ODI sequence since being thrashed 5-0 in India in October 2011.
They may not handle it, rolled in 31.4 overs – leg-spinner Adam Zampa taking 4-31 – and at one level dropping six wickets for 38 runs as Australia’s bowlers starred the place England’s had earlier flopped.
There was a slight return to kind for Jason Roy (33 off 48), who hit six boundaries on the prime of the order whereas Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood have been nipping the ball over the place, however the subsequent highest scorer was James Vince with 22 as Jos Buttler’s facet crumbled from 57-1 and have been trounced at a venue the place that they had gained the T20 World Cup on November 13.
David Warner and Travis Head shared a document MCG stand of 269 as Australia thrashed England on Tuesday
This ODI sequence has had an end-of-term really feel for England after that T20 triumph, with Buttler’s facet comprehensively crushed in all three matches, with a six-wicket loss in Adelaide and 72-run reverse in Sydney previous the Melbourne mauling.
Various tame and drained dismissals with the bat adopted England being responsible of bowling brief and broad after electing to subject in damp and darkish situations.
The bowling assault was duly punished by Head and Warner, whose alliance was not damaged till the thirty ninth over when Olly Stone (4-85) dismissed each gamers within the house of 4 deliveries.
Head, Warner marmalise England at MCG
Head was given a life on 4 with Liam Dawson unable to cling on to a pointy probability at second slip off the bowling of David Willey after which overturned an lbw dismissal on 9 with Chris Woakes’ supply proven to have pitched exterior leg stump.
Head went on to succeed in his century from 91 balls earlier than Warner accomplished his from 96 as they turned simply the second pair, after India’s Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, to share two 250-run plus stands in ODI cricket, having hit Pakistan for 284 in Adelaide in January 2017.
England fast Stone had eye-watering figures of 0-65 after seven overs however then struck twice in his eighth, with Warner nicely held by Willey at deep midwicket and Head bowled on the slog.
Head’s hundred was his third in ODI cricket
Stone then picked up wickets in his ninth and tenth overs, too, as he ended cameos from Steve Smith (21 off 16) and Mitchell Marsh (30 off 16), whereas Dawson (1-75) had Marcus Stoinis (12) caught at backward level from the primary supply after the second rain break.
A rating of 400 seemed achievable for Australia whereas Head and Warner have been flying and regardless that they ended 45 runs shy of that mark they nonetheless amassed the best ODI rating on the MCG.
England hunch after Roy finds trace of kind
Dawid Malan was promoted to opener with Phil Salt having been withdrawn from the sport underneath concussion protocol after hitting his head within the subject, however the left-hander departed for 2 after inside-edging Josh Hazlewood behind whereas aiming to string a canopy drive to the boundary.
Roy, although, seemed as assured as he has finished for whereas regardless of Hazlewood and Cummins producing extravagant seam motion and often beating the within and outdoors edge.
Roy whipped away 4 leg-side boundaries and likewise struck two via the off-side earlier than he was pinned lbw by Cummins within the thirteenth over and Sam Billings (7) clothed an tried pull again to the identical bowler two overs later.
Liam Dawson and England’s bowlers have been made to toil in Melbourne
Vince additionally perished on the pull halfway via the twenty third over, earlier than Zampa had Buttler (1) caught at backward level and pinned Woakes (0) lbw from successive deliveries within the twenty fourth.
England have been 95-7 when Moeen Ali, known as into the facet as Salt’s concussion alternative, skied Zampa to long-off to fall for a 31-ball 18 by which he was dropped twice.
Sam Curran (12) and Dawson (18) took England into three figures however that was scant comfort, with Zampa ending the sport when he castled Stone.
What’s subsequent?
England’s white-ball facet return to motion in South Africa from late January for 3 ODIs, with the main target now turning to red-ball cricket as Ben Stokes’ Check workforce head to Pakistan for a three-match sequence, beginning in Rawalpindi on Thursday, December 1. Watch each sport reside on Sky Sports activities.
