2024-09-21 19:35:15
Published: 09:15, 20 September 2024 Updated: 09:21, 20 September 2024
Two left-handed openers from both teams scored runs. One could not turn a fifty into a century. Stuck in the Nervous Nineties. Another scored fifty in the blink of an eye after turning it into a century. At the end of the day, Australia smiled the smile of victory in this innings. Australia won the first ODI between England and Australia by 7 wickets in Nottingham.
England’s opener Ben Duckett scored 95 runs and England got a good capital of 315 runs. Coming down to reply for the world champions, Travis Head played an unbeaten innings of 154 runs off 129 balls. In this innings of his 150 runs, Australia reached the port of victory before 36 balls.
Headed the innings of the sixth ODI century of his career with 20 fours and 5 sixes. This opener left the field winning the team from the crease for 172 minutes. Marnus Labuschagne was unbeaten on 77 runs with Head. Labushan played the innings in 61 balls with 7 fours and 2 sixes. Besides, two innings of 32 runs came from the bat of Steven Smith and Cameron Green.
Before that, Ben Duckett scored the highest 95 runs for England. He caught Labushan’s return ball to stay 5 runs away from the century. This opener played this innings for 11 fours. Besides, Will Jacks scored 62 runs off 56 balls. Harry Brooke, who took the captaincy for the first time, scored 39 runs off 31 balls. In the end, Jacob Bethall’s 34-ball 35-run innings gave England a challenging capital.
Zampa and Labushane took 3 wickets each with the ball. Head gets 2 wickets. Head got the man of the match award after playing a marathon innings in batting with 2 wickets in bowling. The world champions took a 1-0 lead in the five-match ODI series with the easy win. The second ODI will be played in Leeds on Saturday.
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