Australia v England: Travis Head and David Warner smash hosts to ODI series sweep

Travis Head deed a blistering 152 from 130 balls arsenic Australia dominated successful Melbourne

Travis Head and David Warner some deed centuries arsenic Australia consigned England to their heaviest one-day planetary decision successful presumption of runs successful Melbourne.

Head blitzed a superb 152 from 130 balls and Warner made 106 from 102 deliveries arsenic England were punished for a lacklustre bowling effort successful their last crippled earlier returning home.

Set a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) adjusted 364 to win, England ne'er threatened to get adjacent and were bowled retired for 142 with Australia securing a 3-0 bid expanse successful broad manner.

Adam Zampa took 4-31 arsenic England were dismissed successful 31.4 overs.

For some sides, attraction present switches to red-ball cricket with Australia hosting West Indies successful a two-Test bid starting adjacent Wednesday portion England statesman their three-match circuit of Pakistan a time later.

Head and Warner ruthless successful record-breaking stand

It was the benignant of innings with which England should beryllium precise familiar.

Ultra-aggressive from shot one, instrumentality the onslaught to the bowlers, deed them disconnected their lengths, instrumentality risks, thrust your luck if you person to and earlier you cognize it, you're flying and the absorption are reeling.

Over the past 7 years, it has been Jason Roy, Alex Hales oregon Jonny Bairstow doing it to the opposition. This clip it was Head giving them a sensation of their ain medicine.

The left-hander offered up a pugnacious gaffe accidental erstwhile helium was connected four, had to overturn an lbw determination connected 9 and recovered gaps, oregon adjacent boundaries, with mistimed and miscued shots aboriginal successful his innings. Fortune favoured his brave approach.

By the clip helium was bowled by Olly Stone for 152, though, it was a daze not lone that helium missed the ball, but that helium didn't mediate it.

With a weary England onslaught struggling to find immoderate benignant of strength oregon consistency, Head was relentless.

It was brutal hitting arsenic the 28-year-old pounced connected thing abbreviated and dispatched thing afloat successful a fearless show of batting.

That allowed Warner, by his ain admission, to play 2nd fiddle with a period astatine quicker than a run-a-ball.

Only Ricky Ponting (29) has scored much ODI centuries for Australia than David Warner (19)

There was a small spot other successful the solemnisation erstwhile helium reached his 19th ODI ton aft the caller statement implicit whether helium volition beryllium allowed to skipper Australia again, and adjacent however overmuch longer helium has near successful his planetary career.

"He was fired up and helium had the spot betwixt his teeth and it was fantastic," erstwhile England bowler Alex Hartley said connected Test Match Special.

The 35-year-old aged looked a agelong mode from a spent unit arsenic helium mixed powerfulness with guile, and portion the harm was already done, England's alleviation was palpable erstwhile they yet managed to region Warner and Head successful the abstraction of 4 balls.

Former skipper Aaron Finch is gone and, astatine this rate, mightiness rapidly beryllium forgotten.

'A crippled excessively acold for England'

Looking astatine the schedule, it was wide a agelong mode retired that this ODI bid mightiness not beryllium a precedence for England.

"Horrible" was however Moeen Ali described it aft the T20 World Cup triumph and the mode the tourists person approached this bid suggests his was not a unsocial viewpoint wrong the squad.

It is not the archetypal clip that this England broadside has been without immoderate of its stars owed to Test commitments but erstwhile those remaining are besides splitting games betwixt them pursuing a palmy but mentally draining tournament, the situation becomes that overmuch greater.

The deficiency of sharpness was evident successful the archetypal 2 games and successful the third, with the bid already lost, England struggled to muster immoderate benignant of intensity.

"I deliberation it's a crippled excessively acold for England," Hartley said. "They came retired and bowled similar they're already connected the level home.

"It's truthful hard erstwhile you're connected the backmost of a World Cup win. Australia had the other week disconnected and they look a batch fresher."

Even connected a seamer-friendly surface, England's bowling lacked immoderate benignant of zip, peculiarly erstwhile the aboriginal wicket wasn't forthcoming. There was nary deficiency of effort but the indiscipline to the bowling hinted astatine minds not wholly focused connected the crippled astatine hand.

It mightiness not beryllium England's first-choice onslaught but it was telling however overmuch much threatening Australia's bowlers were erstwhile their accidental came.

More telling inactive was the carefree mode successful which England threw distant their wickets erstwhile their slim hopes of successfully chasing down the runs vanished.

Buttler came successful astatine the autumn of the 4th wicket and smashed his 4th shot consecutive up successful the aerial arsenic helium tried to enactment Zampa retired of the stadium, Moeen Ali holed retired disconnected the aforesaid bowler and Sam Curran and Liam Dawson went down swinging arsenic well. None seemed overly disappointed to depart.

With the World Cup successful India adjacent October, the 50-over format volition soon instrumentality connected acold greater value for Buttler's side. But evidently, that clip has not yet arrived.

Ultimately though, England permission Australia having achieved their goal: a World Cup won.

'It doesn't taint World Cup win'

England skipper Jos Buttler connected BBC Test Match Special: "We've fallen a agelong mode short. It was ever going to beryllium a pugnacious bid for america coming disconnected the backmost of the World Cup but it was conscionable a fewer games excessively far.

"Fair play to Australia, they person outplayed us.

"It doesn't enactment immoderate taint connected the World Cup triumph astatine each for us. We're precise blessed with the tour, we've got precisely what we wanted from it [World Cup win]."

Australia skipper Pat Cummins: "It's been fantastic each 3 games, everything has truly clicked. The bowlers person wanted to vessel and done the job, and the batters person been fantastic.

"It was bully to decorativeness it disconnected present with I deliberation is the champion ODI I've been a portion of."