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Australia defeated England by 6 wickets in the first One-Day International (ODI) of the continuing three-match sequence at tthe Adelaide Oval on Thursday (November 18).
Chasing 288, the hosts went off to a flying begin and took the sport away from the vacationers. David Warner and Travis Head fully dominated the proceedings and went on to kind an excellent opening partnership of 147 runs.
Chris Jordon drew the first blood in the type of Head, who was dismissed for a well-made 69 off 57 balls. Before England might breathe slightly, Warner and Steve Smith constructed one other essential partnership of 53 runs for the second wicket. Warner, cruising to make a triple-figure rating, was ultimately dismissed for 86. Smith, nonetheless, stayed unbeaten on 80 and took his workforce over the end line in 46.5 overs.
Earlier, a surprising hundred from Dawid Malan helped England submit 287/9 on the scoreboard in their allotted 50 overs. Though at one stage, the entire didn’t look wherever in sight as the guests had been reeling at 66/4. But Malan ensured England put up a combat as he single-handedly led the restoration with an excellent 134 from 128 deliveries, together with 12 fours and 4 sixes. The second-highest scorer for England in their innings was all-rounder David Willey, who chipped in with an unbeaten 34 (40).
“Fantastic performance, a really team effort. Everyone came here fresh. Ashton Agar came in after a few days, nice to see everyone step up. We’ve got plenty of Test cricket coming up, to see Smith play like this was really pleasing. He’s been putting in a lot of effort in the nets. Pretty pleased with my bowling performance as well,” stated Australian captain Pat Cummins in the post-match presentation.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Steve Smith wound again the clock or as he put it;
“I’m back, baby.”#AUSvENG
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) November 17, 2022
Say what you need about Steve Smith in T20I cricket, he’s among the many greatest ODI batters Australia have ever had #AusvEng
— Bharat Sundaresan (@beastieboy07) November 17, 2022
Australia win the first ODI by six wickets.
Scorecard: https://t.co/2GKwlngXo8
??#AUSvENG??????? pic.twitter.com/lT88P2Swes
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) November 17, 2022
David Warner’s century drought continues.
Getting scores is not any downside: Nine of them over 70 since his final worldwide ton in January 2020!
But nothing in three figures. #AUSvENG
— Scott Bailey (@ScottBaileyAAP) November 17, 2022
Watching Steve Smith bat. The 50 over format is a lot kinder to high batters with conventional abilities.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) November 17, 2022
Highest common for opening partnerships in males’s ODIs (min. 5 innings):
100.25 – Travis Head, David Warner ??
90.18 – KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma ??
88.22 – Mahela Jayawardene, Upul Tharanga ??
82.28 – Shikhar Dhawan, Shubman Gill ??
74.33 – Asif Mujtaba, Saeed Anwar ??#AUSvENG— Nic Savage (@nic_savage1) November 17, 2022
Australia win comprehensively to go 1-0 in the three-match ODI sequence ?
Watch the rest of the #AUSvENG ODI sequence LIVE on https://t.co/MHHfZPzf4H (in choose areas) ? pic.twitter.com/WWnx87TCDT
— ICC (@ICC) November 17, 2022
Australia beat England by 6 wickets, terrific run chase led by Warner, Smith & Head.
Great begin for Pat Cummins as an ODI captain.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) November 17, 2022
Highest batting averages in Australia’s home OD comp (min 20 inns):
Michael Bevan 61.18
DAN HUGHES 59.25
Steve Smith 59.03#MarshCup— Adam Burnett (@AdamBurnett09) November 17, 2022
A snug 6 wicket win for Australia with 19 balls to spare as they go 1-0 up
Dawid Malan’s century was in useless as fifties from Warner, Head and Smith sealed the deal #AUSvENG
— ThePoppingCrease (@PoppingCreaseSA) November 17, 2022
Hope at the very least Peter Pannalal saab comes up together with his arrows telling us precisely by what number of inches Malan, Warner, and Smith took benefit at the moment, so that there is some semblance of relevance to this recreation.
— Hope you and the household are effectively BC! (@NarovaKunjarova) November 17, 2022
Steve Smith in ODIs since 2020
Innings : 18
Runs scored : 992
Average : 66.13
Strike Rate : 93.05
4 centuries131 v India in Bangalore
105 off 66 v India at SCG
104 off 64 v India at SCG
98 v India in Rajkot
105 v NZ in Cairns
80* v England in Adelaide pic.twitter.com/KAWKFsE3Zd— Arnav Singh (@Arnavv43) November 17, 2022