Tim Paine says Trent Bridge rout worst day of cricket in his life

Rookie skipper Tim Paine says he felt helpless during England’s record rout, which came after he sent the hosts in to bat.

Australian captain Tim Paine leaves the field with team-mates after England’s innings. Picture: Getty

Australia’s record-breaking loss to England at Trent Bridge overnight was the hardest day’s cricket Tim Paine has experienced in his life.

Already battered and bruised from a nasty blow to the face at Cardiff, the Australian captain suffered more pain as his bowlers conceded the most runs in the history of the ODI game and his side suffered the largest defeat in the history of Australian cricket.

There’s just no way to spin a result like that.

“It’s tough,” Paine sad. “I thought I had some headaches in Cardiff after 25 overs when I hit my head, but I had a few more out there today to be honest.

“I’ve been playing cricket since I was a kid and that is the hardest day’s cricket I have ever had in my life. Everything we tried didn’t work, everything they tried came off. Normally that happens for an hour or two then you get a couple of wickets. But for it to happen as long as it did, you have to take your hat off. They struck the ball as well as I have ever seen.”

England scored 6-481 then bowled Australia out on a good batting wicket for just 239. The bowlers had the worst of it but the fact the batsmen could only see out 37 overs was equally damning.

Jonny Bairstow (139) and Alex Hales (147) put on 151 for the second wicket and were ably supported by Jason Roy (82) and Eoin Morgan (67).

“When Bairstow and Hales were going it seemed no matter where we bowled it was going to the fence,” Paine said. “Certainly, there’s ways you can limit the damage, you can try and shut down areas of the field, or go to death bowling much earlier. The best place for these guys to learn is out in the middle and we’d be foolish not to learn anything from today. No doubt we’ll talk about it at length and get some things out of it.”

England raced past theirs and the game’s previous highest total of 444 which they set at Trent Bridge against Pakistan in 2016 and seemed set to break the 500 mark.

Hales admitted they discussed getting there during the innings.

“When Morgs (Morgan) came out, he said ‘if we’re ever going to do it (get 500), now’s the time’ but we didn’t quite get there,” the batsman said after the game.

Australia’s bowlers went for 21 sixes and 41 fours. It was the second most sixes ever scored in an ODI.

Australia’s inexperienced bowling attack appeared to have no answers.

:I’m not sure if they were rattled, they certainly seemed OK with what they were trying to do,” Paine said.

“When those players are putting you under pressure it doesn’t matter who you are you can lose your line and length and we certainly did at times. Our bowlers kept running in and our fielding energy and stuff like that was really good for 50 overs. That was just three or four guys having an absolute day out all at the same time.”

Paine admitted England’s batsmen were just too good.

“You certainly have to give them credit,” he said. “They played some unbelievable cricket shots. But at the same time we’ll look at it. We have a really inexperienced attack and we would be foolish not to go through it and learn from it. But the best place for these guys to learn is on the job. As bad as it seems and it feels right now, this can be a really big positive for us going forward, that we have gone through a day like this and the guys realise the sun comes up tomorrow and we get another crack at England in two days time.”

Trent Bridge Trauma

481 runs: the highest total in ODI history.

242 runs: the heaviest defeat Australia has ever suffered and the fifth worse by any recognised side

21 sixes: the second most hit by any side in an ODI behind New Zealand’s 22 against West Indies in 2014.

21-ball 50: Eoin Morgan’s half century is the fastest by any England player.

0-100: AJ Tye’s nine overs are the second most expensive by an Australian behind Mick Lewis’s 0-113 from 10 overs in 2006 against South Africa.