England smash ODI world record to crush Netherlands

Published June 18, 2022
ENGLAND’S Liam Livingstone plays a belligerent stroke during the first ODI against the Netherlands at the VRA Cricket Ground on Friday.—Reuters
ENGLAND’S Liam Livingstone plays a belligerent stroke during the first ODI against the Netherlands at the VRA Cricket Ground on Friday.—Reuters

AMSTELVEEN: England broke their own world record for the highest team total in One-day International history after they smashed 498-4 in 50 overs against a hapless Netherlands side to win a one-sided contest by 232 runs here at the VRA Cricket Ground on Friday.

Jos Buttler, Dawid Malan and Phil Salt notched up centuries while Liam Livingstone walked into bat in the 45th over and scored England’s fastest ODI fifty as they eclipsed their previous record of 481 against Australia in 2018.

Malan (125) and Salt (122) laid the foundation for England’s record score with a 222-run partnership before Buttler (162 not out off 70 balls) came in and accelerated the scoring in what was a brutal onslaught on the Dutch bowlers.

Buttler, who top-scored in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this season with 863 runs, continued where he left off, smashing seven fours and clearing the ropes 14 times after he was let off twice by poor Dutch fielding early in his innings.

“It certainly feels like I’m in the form of my life. The IPL couldn’t have gone much better for me so I was feeling in good touch coming here,” Buttler said after he was named the man-of-the-match.

“It was a really good wicket, we got off to a good start and that gave me the licence to really attack.”

Buttler brought up his century in just 47 balls, the second-fastest in England history and one ball shy of his own record.

Needing to score at an eye-watering 10 per over to win, the Dutch side barely managed to score at half the required run-rate before they were bowled out for 266, with Moeen Ali picking up three wickets.

“Getting Jason Roy out [in the second over] was a good moment,” Dutch skipper Pieter Seelaar said. “But dropping those catches... (you) can’t drop the best batsman in the world twice in an over. In that we let ourselves down.”

As England continued dealing in sixes, some of which landed in the trees and bushes lining the ground, there was even a moment where the Dutch players had to help the ground staff search for the ball.

Livingstone, who reached his fifty in 17 balls, finished unbeaten on 66 off just 22 deliveries.

England now have the three highest scores in ODI history, having also scored 444 against Pakistan in 2016.

England’s second-string side play two more ODIs against the Netherlands on Sunday and Wednesday.

Scoreboard

ENGLAND:

J. Roy b Snater 1

P. Salt c Boissevain b van Beek 122

D. Malan c de Leede b Seelaar 125

J. Buttler not out 162

E. Morgan lbw b Seelaar 0

L. Livingstone not out 66

EXTRAS (B-4, LB-2, NB-2, W-14) 22

TOTAL (for four wickets, 50 overs) 498

DID BOT BAT: Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, David Willey, Adil Rashid, Reece Topley

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-1 (Roy), 2-223 (Salt), 3-407 (Malan), 4-407 (Morgan)

BOWLING: Logan 10-0-82-1, Snater 10-0-99-1, Seelaar 9-0-83-2, Leede 5-0-65-0, Boissevain

10-0-108-0, Aryan Dutt 6-0-55-0

NETHERLANDS:

V. Singh b Willey 13

M. O’Dowd b Topley 55

Musa Ahmed c Rashid b Ali 21

T. Cooper c Salt b Ali 23

B. de Leede c Livingstone b Curran 28

S. Edwards not out 72

L. van Beek c Roy b Ali 6

P. Seelaar b Willey 25

S. Snater b Curran 4

A. Dutt b Topley 0

P. Boissevain c Buttler b Malan 5

EXTRAS: (LB-11, W-3) 14

TOTAL (all out 49.4 overs) 266

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-15 (Vikramjit), 2-95 (Musa), 3-100 (Max O’Dowd), 4-150 (Bas de Leede), 5-151 (Cooper), 6-165 (Logan), 7-224 (Seelaar), 8-233 (Snater), 9-236 (Aryan), 10-266 (Boissevain)

BOWLING: Willey 10-0-42-2, Topley 10-0-46-2, Curran 9-0-46-2, Moeen Ali 10-0-57-3, Adil Rashid 10-0-59-0, Malan 0.4-0-5-1

Published in Dawn, June 18th, 2022

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