Melbourne, In the third ODI match against England, both the openers of Australia scored a century after batting powerfully and with the help of their innings, Australia scored 355 runs for 5 wickets in 48 overs. Due to rain, the match was reduced to 48-48 overs. In this match, David Warner completed his 19th ODI century after 1043 days while Travis Head scored the third century of his ODI career.
In this match, David Warner played an innings of 106 runs in 102 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 8 fours and this was the 19th century of his ODI career. So Travis Head scored 152 runs off 130 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 16 fours and this was the best innings of his ODI career so far. These two batsmen shared a partnership of 269 runs for the first wicket.
With this inning, David Warner has completed 6000 runs in ODI cricket. Talking about Warner’s ODI career, he has so far scored 6007 runs in 139 innings at an average of 44.83. He has scored 19 centuries and 27 fifties. His best score is 179 runs. So Warner has reached the second position in terms of scoring a century for Australia in ODI cricket.
He has surpassed Mark Waugh. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has the most ODI centuries in the name of 29. Warner is only the 17th batsman in the world to have 19 or more ODI centuries. India’s Sachin Tendulkar (49) has the most centuries in ODIs. After that, Virat Kohli has 43 ODI centuries. At number three is Ricky Ponting, Ponting has 30 ODI centuries. Ponting scored 29 centuries for Australia and one century for ICC.