England flay world record ODI total

England have smashed a new world record one-day score of 6-481, beating the previous mark of 444 by pulverising Australia's bowlers at Trent Bridge.

England beat the score in the 46th over of the third ODI against Australia on the back of centuries from Jonny Bairstow and Alex Hales.

Scorecard: England v Australia, third ODI

Bairstow smashed 139 – his fourth ODI century in 2018 – while Hales hit 147 and took England past the old mark with a massive six, the 21st of the innings.

There were half-centuries for Jason Roy (82) and Eoin Morgan, who hit a 21-ball fifty and in the process became England’s all-time leading run-scorer in ODIs, going above Ian Bell who had 5,416 career runs.

The previous ODI record of 3-444 was set by England on this same ground two years ago against Pakistan.

The Aussies fell well short in the run chase and slumped to a 242-run defeat.

Australia captain Tim Paine had won the toss, his third in succession, and opted to bowl under overcast Nottingham skies with a hint of rain in the air. It was quickly pouring runs.

England had looked on track to threaten a score of 500 such was their pace, but Australia's bowlers at least avoided that humiliation as they benefited from England throwing the bat. Jhye Richardson picked up two wickets in as many balls in his final over to finish with 3-92.

Ashton Agar was the most economical of the Aussie bowlers, with his 10 overs conceding 70 runs, while he claimed the wicket of the in-form Bairstow.

Andrew Tye came in for particular punishment, and despite curbing the damage late with a series of wide yorkers, he finished with figures of 0-100 from nine overs.

Australia twice claimed catches that were called no-balls for being above waist-high – once off Tye and another off Marcus Stoinis, whose eight overs went for 84.

Morgan smashed 6-4-6 from Stoinis to take him to a 21-ball fifty – the quickest in England's ODI history – and in the process became his country's all-time leading run-scorer.

The highest List A score of all-time remains the 4-496 that England county side Surrey hit against Gloucestershire in 2007.

While England were in the midst of their run-scoring spree at Trent Bridge, an India A team hit 4-458 in a one-day match against Leicestershire. It had been, for a short time, the second highest 50-over score.

England were on track to set a new world record from the very start, as they raced out of the blocks with Bairstow taking 14 runs from Richardson's first over.

The 300 came up in the 34th over, and the 400 nine overs later in the 43rd. They had passed the previous world record mark when Hales launched the innings' 21st six into the Fox Road Stand with more than three overs to go.

Australia used eight bowlers before the halfway mark of the innings and all of them came in for heavy damage. Only Travis Head, a handy spinner himself, Shaun Marsh and wicketkeeper Paine didn't roll the arm over.

Australia's front-line attack was their least experienced since the very early days of one-day cricket, with Tye (seven games), Agar (seven), Richardson (three) and Billy Stanlake (four).

Stanlake had come back into the XI for Kane Richardson who, with 17 ODIs to his name, is the most experienced bowler on this Qantas Tour of the UK, but was sidelined having played in the first two matches.

Bairstow was given out on 27 when he was struck in front by Agar in the spinner's first over, but had the decision overturned when Hawk-Eye tracked the ball to be bouncing over the stumps.

He was then dropped in the next over by Stoinis, who spilled a tough chance running back towards the boundary. The rebound off the turf clocked him in the forehead for good measure and if that wasn't punishment enough, Bairstow laced the next two balls to the boundary.

Bairstow's fifty came in just 39 balls, and Roy had his half-century soon after from 41 balls.

It took some sharp work and a strong throw from D'Arcy Short to make the breakthrough, although Roy's error of judgement was largely responsible for his own run-out on 82.

Hales, playing on his home ground, was brutal at No.3 and when he put a six back over Agar's head into the upper section of the Radcliffe Road stand, he had his fifty from just 38 balls.

Bairstow eventually fell for 139 when he smashed Agar hard and flat but straight to Richardson on the deep mid-wicket boundary.

An unrelenting England promoted Jos Buttler up to No.4 ahead of Joe Root and Morgan, but he made just 11 before smashing Richardson high to where Aaron Finch settled under a catch on the long-on fence.

Hales, however, continued on, his 147 the top score in an England innings few will forget any time soon.

Travis Head was the only Australian to post 50 in reply as the tourists were bowled out for 239 in a record defeat.

Qantas tours of the UK and Zimbabwe

ODI squad: Tim Paine (c), Aaron Finch (vc), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Travis Head, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, Shaun Marsh, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye

England ODI squad: Eoin Morgan (c), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Tom Curran, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, David Willey, Mark Wood

T20 squad: Aaron Finch (c), Alex Carey (vc), Ashton Agar, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Glenn Maxwell, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, D’Arcy Short, Billy Stanlake, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, Jack Wildermuth

Qantas Tour of the UK

June 7: Australia beat Sussex by 57 runs at Hove

June 9: Australia beat Middlesex by 101 runs at Lord's

June 13: England won by three wickets at The Oval

June 16: England won by 38 runs in Cardiff

June 19: England won by 242 runs at Trent Bridge

June 21: Fourth ODI, Durham (D/N)

June 24: Fifth ODI, Old Trafford

June 27: Only T20, Edgbaston (D/N)

Qantas T20I tri-series Tour of Zimbabwe

July 1: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

July 2: Pakistan vs Australia

July 3: Australia vs Zimbabwe

July 4: Zimbabwe vs Pakistan

July 5: Pakistan vs Australia

July 6: Australia vs Zimbabwe

July 8: Final