Australia vs England 3rd ODI: Head and Warner centuries help Aussies’ whitewash English

The
openers
forged
an
alliance
of
269
runs
as
Australia
posted
355-5
in
a
rain-interrupted
match
in
Melbourne,
with
England
only
able
to
muster
142
all
out
in
reply,
suffering
a
third
emphatic
defeat.

Australia’s
innings
was
trimmed
to
48
overs,
which
meant
under
the
Duckworth–Lewis–Stern
calculations
England’s
target
was
set
at
364
for
victory,
which
they
got
nowhere
near.
Nine
days
after
winning
the
T20
World
Cup
on
the
same
ground,
England’s
response
to
Australia’s
total
was
largely
listless.

Head
made
an
ODI
career-best
152,
while
Warner
was
out
for
106,
his
19th
century
in
this
format.
They
put
on
the
ninth-highest
first-wicket
stand
in
ODI
history,
second
only
for
Australia
to
the
284
that
Head
and
Warner
themselves
amassed
in
January
2017
against
Pakistan.

It
was
their
second
200-plus
partnership,
and
only
Sri
Lanka’s
Mahela
Jayawardene
and
Upul
Tharanga,
who
have
managed
three,
have
achieved
more
as
a
pairing
in
ODIs.

Olly
Stone
eventually
removed
both
openers
in
the
same
over,
the
39th
of
Australia’s
innings,
on
the
way
to
bowling
figures
of
4-85
from
10
overs.

England’s
opening
partnership,
in
stark
contrast,
was
worth
only
15
runs,
with
Dawid
Malan
falling
for
just
two
to
Josh
Hazlewood
in
the
third
over.
Jason
Roy
top
scored
with
33,
as
Adam
Zampa
took
4-31
in
the
rout.

Warner
beats
Hayden
record

Warner
now
has
6,007
runs
from
139
ODI
innings,
becoming
the
10th
Australian
batter
to
reach
6,000
runs
in
the
format.
He
has
reached
the
milestone
in
the
fewest
innings
of
all
Australians,
beating
Matthew
Hayden’s
previous
record
of
154
innings.

Head
rush

Head’s
152
goes
down
as
the
second-highest
score
by
an
Australian
player
in
the
history
of
men’s
ODIs
against
England,
bettered
only
by
Shane
Watson’s
unbeaten
161
in
January
2011.
The
thrashing
gave
Australia’s
men
just
their
second
whitewash
of
England
in
a
multi-game
bilateral
ODI
series,
29
years
after
the
first,
also
a
3-0
victory.