England set ODI record with 481-6 against Australia
NOTTINGHAM: England extended its own world record in one-day international cricket after smashing 481-6 against Australia in the third one-day international on Tuesday.
No 3 Alex Hales hit 16 fours and five sixes in 147 off 92 balls and opener Jonny Bairstow scored 139 — also off 92 balls — in the third ODI. England leads the five-match series 2-0.
England had scored 444-3 against Pakistan in 2016 at the same Trent Bridge ground.
Bairstow’s opening partner Jason Roy hammered 82 and missed out on a second successive century before captain Eoin Morgan hit England’s quickest half-century in an ODI and smacked 67 off 30 deliveries.
Australian captain Tim Paine won the toss and chose to field.
PRITHVI, MAYANK HIT TONS IN INDIA A’S WIN
LEICESTER: Opener Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal took a second string Leicestershire attack to the cleaners as India A piled up a mammoth 458 for 4 to win the second warm-up game by a massive 281 runs ahead of their tri-nation one-day series starting June 22.
India A’s team total is currently the third highest in all List A matches behind Surrey’s 496 against Gloucestershire in the 2007 One Day Championship and England’s 481 for 6 against Australia in an ODI on Tuesday.
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SRI LANKANS CHARGED WITH MISCONDUCT
DUBAI: The ICC chief executive David Richardson on Tuesday charged Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal, coach Chandika Hathurusinghe and manager Asanka Gurusinha with a breach of Article 2.3.1, a Level 3 offence, which relates to “conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game”.
The three have been charged for their involvement in the Sri Lanka cricket team’s refusal to take to the field in St Lucia at the start of Saturday’s play, which caused a two-hour delay in the start of play. This action is alleged to amount to a serious breach of the Laws of Cricket and to be contrary to the spirit of the game.