The horror numbers behind Australia’s Trent Bridge slaughter

THEY were belted for a world record 481 and young bowler Andrew Tye was whacked for a century off just nine overs. But that was only part of the carnage Australia suffered at Trent Bridge.

Andrew Tye had a tough day at the office. Picture: AFP

AUSTRALIAN coach Justin Langer called it brutal and said he’d never seen anything like it as the England batsmen ploughed in to his bowlers on their way to a record one-day score of 6-481.

He was shell shocked and said the dressing room was a “pretty sad place” following Australia’s biggest ever one-day defeat at Trent Bridge.

The brand new national mentor, who played in a team which handed out such hidings, finds himself in a charge of team at its lowest, weakened by missing personnel and flattened by a run of results, seven losses in eight games to England, that no-one is used to.

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There are another 20-odd games before next year’s World Cup and the best players, including the injured bowlers and banned duo Steve Smith and Dave Warner should be back by then.

But Langer isn’t without a plan for now. Following Tuesday’s debacle he said he would use his fatherly instincts, embrace his battered players and remind them only hard work can get Australia out of its worst one-day funk in nearly 50 years.

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“It’s a shock. That is literally England at its best. I’ve never seen nothing like that today,” Langer said underneath the scoreboard at Trent Bridge, with the horror numbers still showing.

“I was in Johannesburg when Australia got 400 and South Africa then got it, but that, out there, was just brutal. Hopefully our young guys can learn from it. It doesn’t get harder than that.

“It’s a pretty sad dressing room there because you expect to win. These are the days when you are like a dad not a headmaster. We’ll look after them.

Andrew Tye had a tough day at the office. Picture: AFP

“They are young and we recognise that. What I do know is that you can work hard to gain at confidence. It’s a bit like working hard to gain respect. To do that we are going to have to go through some tough days like this.”

Captain Tim Paine called it the toughest day in his cricketing career and said “nothing we tried worked” as England bettered their own world record in posting an almost ridiculous 6/481.

Australia’s batsmen were also humiliated. Picture: AP

Langer felt hopeless as the eight bowlers Australia used were punished in the run spree. It’s not Australia’s first choice attack but the worldwide reaction suggested no bowlers picked for Australia should be that bad.

“Just woke up and saw the score in England. What the hell happened over there & what is going on boys? Gulp,” Shane Warne posted on Twitter.

AJ Tye, who has served Langer with success in WA, copped the brunt of the batting blast, playing in just his seventh ODI, and his figures of 0/100 were the second worst in Australian history.

“He’s probably one of the best people I have ever met in the game of cricket. He’ll stay up but what I’ve said to him … he’s got to learn how to bowl at the first 10 overs the second 10 overs and at the death,” Langer said.

There’s a call for changes after three straight losses. Spinner Nathan Lyon, unused on tour, could come in for Thursday’s fourth game at Durham.

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But Langer didn’t miss the failing Aussie batsmen either, and said their lacklustre effort on the best batting pitch in the world, bowled out in the 37th over, was as disappointing as the bowling effort was shocking.

“For us not to bat through the innings is a huge missed opportunities. Great players take responsibility they get the job done,” he said.

“It was a tough day but we’ll keep chipping away.”

ANATOMY OF A SLAUGHTER

*Jhye Richardson bowled the only maiden in the 6th over

*Marcus Stoinis went for 20 in the 44th over (6 4 6 1 2 1)

*England passed its own world record of 444 in the 46th over when Alex Hales hit Jhye Richardson for six

*AJ Tye went for 56 through his first five overs. He has figures of 1/181 in his past 17 overs after going for 81 off eight overs in Cardiff.

AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST ODI LOSSES

242 runs v England, Nottingham, 2019

206 runs v New Zealand, Adelaide, 1986

196 runs v South Africa, Cape Town, 2006

164 runs v West Indies, Perth, 1987

159 runs v New Zealand, Auckland, 2016

BIGGEST ONE DAY WINS OF ALL TIME

290 runs New Zealand d Ireland 1 Jul 2008

275 runs Australia d Aghanistan 4 Mar 2015

272 runs South Africa d Zimbabwe 22 Oct 2010

258 runs South Africa d Sri Lanka 11 Jan 2012

257 runs India d Bermuda 19 Mar 2007

257 runs South Africa d West Indie 27 Feb 2015

256 runs Australia d Namibia 27 Feb 2003

256 runs India d Hong Kong 25 Jun 2008

255 runs Pakistan d Ireland 18 Aug 2016

245 Sri Lanka d India 29 Oct 2000

243 runs Sri Lanka d Bermuda 15 Mar 2007

242 runs England d Australia 19 Jun 2018