England close in on 500 at Amstelveen as Jos Buttler (162 for 70), Dawid Malan (125 for 109) and Phil Salt (122 for 93) score centuries and Liam Livingstone (66 for 22) crunches 17-ball fifty; England’s score tops the 481-6 they beat against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018
England broke their own world record for the highest score in ODI cricket after crushing 498-4 against the Netherlands during a running festival in Amstelveen.
Jos Buttler (162 not out of 70 balls), Dawid Malan (125 out of 109) and Phil Salt (122 out of 93) each scored centuries as England overcame the 481-6 they had amassed against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018.
Eoin Morgan’s team had a chance to become the first team in history to score 500 in an ODI as they reached 488 with two balls remaining, but Liam Livingstone (66th out of 22) could only hit the next delivery for four.
However, Livingstone crunched the last ball for six as England achieved the highest score in any List A game, international or domestic, reviewing the 496-4 Surrey put up against Gloucestershire at The Kia Oval in 2007.
A carnage inning included Buttler beating England’s second-fastest hundred ODI, from 47 balls, behind only the 46-ball century he had beaten against Pakistan in Dubai in 2015.
Buttler’s 150 came in 65 deliveries, the second-fastest in history, second only to Ab De Villiers’ 64-ball effort for South Africa against the West Indies seven years ago.
Malan and Salt each achieved their first ODI centuries, with Malan seeing him become only the third England player, after Buttler and Women’s captain Heather Knight, to achieve centuries in all three forms of international cricket.
