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“What A Freak Team” – Fans Laud England’s Performance As They Post The Highest Ever List A Cricket Total

Dawid Malan, Philip Salt, Jos Buttler England

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The England cricket team created history on Friday against the Netherlands team at the VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen. They smashed a mammoth 498 runs in the first innings to register the highest team total across all List A cricket.

England was asked to bat by first Netherlands skipper Pieter Seelaar. Jason Roy and Philip Salt walked out to open the innings. The visitors suffered an early blow as Jason Roy was dismissed for just one run. However, the second wicket-partnership between Philip Salt and Dawid Malan put them in the driver’s seat.

Philip Salt slammed 122 runs off 93 balls, while Dawid Malan scored a 109- ball 125 runs knock. Jos Buttler, who came out to bat after the fall of Philip Salt’s wicket, took on the bowlers from the ball go.

He smashed them all around the park and finished the innings with an unbeaten 162 runs off just 70 balls. Liam Livingstone too played a fine hand of 66 runs off just 22 balls. England managed a whopping 498 runs in their fifty overs at the loss of four wickets.

England batters slammed 26 sixes and 36 boundaries in the first innings. They surpassed Surrey’s 496/4 in their fifty overs to score the highest team total across all List A cricket. The visitors also broke their own record of the highest team total in ODI matches. The record was previously 481 runs in fifty overs by England against Australia in 2018.

Let’s take a look at how fans reacted to England’s historic total against the Netherlands:

Jos Buttler registers fourth-highest ODI individual score by an England cricketer

Wicket-keeper batter Jos Buttler’s 162* became the fourth-highest ODI individual score by an England cricketer. The record lies with Jason Roy, who had slammed 180 runs against Australia in 2018. Buttler’s knock included seven boundaries and fourteen sixes and came at a strike rate of 231.43.


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