England smashed a world record-breaking 444-3 against Pakistan in their third one-day global on August 30, after opening batsman Alex Hales hit England’s highest individual ODI score with 171.
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Records tumbled at Trent Bridge yesterday as England secured a 169-run over Pakistan and secured victory in the Royal London One Day International series with two games to spare.
Alex Hales scored 171 of those runs to break Robin Smith’s 23-year record for the highest score by an England player in an ODI.
Buttler’s innings featured England’s quickest ever ODI fifty, off just 22 balls, and he hit seven fours and as many sixes in total during his 51-ball knock, added AFP.
Woakes was again the star man with the ball – as he has been all summer – and Amir’s spirited half-century broke another record; the highest score by a number 11 in ODIs.
England have an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series and were chasing a whitewash.
England were breaking a 10-year-old one-day worldwide record, set by Sri Lanka against Holland, and did so only from the final ball of their innings on Tuesday when Buttler smashed yet another boundary.
Hales shifted through the gears after passing 50, taking 19 off captain Azhar Ali’s only over – which went for 20 – and scoring predominantly through the leg side as he raced to his fourth ODI ton off the next 28 balls.
Jason Roy, Hales’s opening partner had gone close to breaking Smith’s record with 162 against Sri Lanka at The Oval – his home ground – in June.
The pair soon brought their 50-run stand in just 55 deliveries and with back-to-back boundaries in the 18th over, Hales reached his half-century.
For Pakistan Hassan Ali and Mohammad Nawaz were the only wicket-takers. After the embarrassment at Trent Bridge, Pakistan made four changes, with bowlers Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz and Yasir Shah dropped along with all-rounder Shoaib Malik.
Stokes stroked a almost run-a-ball 69 and Bairstow, included at the last minute in place of the injured Jos Buttler, made 61 as England chased down Pakistan’s 247-8 with two overs to spare.
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“The wicket was really good and there were lots of runs in it, but 444 is a bit too much”. Beauty and the beast usually exist independent of each other, but they both lived in Hales on Tuesday as he alternately stroked then scythed Pakistan’s bowlers to distraction in front of his home crowd on a benign pitch. He conceded 113/0 against South Africa in 2006.
