Travis Head of Australia bats watched by England wicketkeeper Jamie Smith throughout the 1st ODI between England and Australia at Trent Bridge on September 19, 2024 in Nottingham, England.
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Travis Head was at his belligerent greatest in smashing a career-best 154 not out to underpin Australia’s chase of 316 to win the primary one-day worldwide in opposition to England on Thursday (September 19, 2024) and achieve a thirteenth straight victory within the 50-over format.
It was the left-handed opener’s sixth ODI century — and his first since a equally brutal knock of 137 in Australia’s victory over India within the World Cup ultimate 10 months in the past.
The vacationers wanted an enormous innings from somebody after Ben Duckett hit 95 in England’s 315 all out at Trent Bridge, a floor recognized for being a batter’s paradise with brief boundaries.
England would have hoped for extra after being 211-2 after 32 overs, just for Australia’s spinners — together with part-time gradual bowler Marnus Labuschagne (3-39) — to decelerate the run charge and take 9 wickets in whole, many at essential occasions. England’s ultimate seven wickets fell for 83 runs, with Head even getting concerned with two of the wickets.
Head then let rip with with the bat, hitting 20 fours and 5 sixes as Australia strolled to 317-3 and a seven-wicket victory with six overs remaining. It was the very best particular person rating by an Australian in England and bettered his 152 in opposition to the English in Melbourne in November 2022, additional enhancing his standing as one of many world’s greatest and most harmful white-ball batters.
“I’ve labored extraordinarily arduous over a couple of years and I most likely play the sport a bit extra relaxed now,” Head stated. “I take it for what it’s and attempt to take pleasure in what I am doing. It is coming off in the best way I am taking part in.”
To have fun his century, Head perched his helmet on the highest of his bat deal with and raised it to the sky. He was there on the finish to see Australia over the road in its highest profitable ODI chase in England.
Labuschagne was there, too — identical to he was in that World Cup ultimate run chase in Ahmedabad — and posted an unbeaten 61-ball 77.
In England’s innings, Will Jacks hit 62 for his third half-century in eight ODIs, and Australia’s lead spinner Adam Zampa had 3-49 off 10 overs in his a hundredth ODI.
“We had been eyeing up an enormous rating, for positive,” England stand-in captain Harry Brook stated. “It wasn’t meant to be. It was tough there within the center in opposition to the spinners, we most likely did not rotate the strike in addition to we needed and we ended up getting a below-par rating ultimately.”
The second ODI of the five-match sequence between the fierce cricket rivals is at Headingley on Saturday and Australia will hope to have senior gamers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Glenn Maxwell out there, after they missed out in Nottingham due to sickness.
The Australians are set to be with out pacer Ben Dwarshuis, who was making his ODI debut however sustained a suspected pectoral pressure whereas throwing off-balance from the boundary throughout England’s innings and went off injured.
Dwarshuis had solely bowled 4 overs to that time and by no means returned to the sphere. His absence was a part of the explanation why Australia bowled solely spin for the final 18 overs of England’s innings — and the ploy labored.
“The longer the innings went on, we thought tempo off was the higher choice,” Australia captain Mitchell Marsh stated. “It was a intestine really feel and the best way we bowled, particularly our part-timers, was implausible.”
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