England registered a record 498-run total in the first ODI vs Netherlands at the VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen on Friday. Batting first, Jos Buttler continued his rich vein from IPL 2022 with a century as Dawid Malan and Philip Salt also got to three-figure marks. 

Scoring 498/4, Eoin Morgan and co broke their own world record for the highest score in fifty-over format, which was 481/6 against Australia in Nottingham in 2018. 

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Buttler finished the IPL this year with the orange cap. The English wicket-keeper batter reached his century on Friday in 47 balls. It is the second-fastest hundred for England. While the Rajasthan Royals player himself slammed seven fours and 14 maximums, the team’s boundary count stood at 26 sixes and 36 fours at the end of 50 overs. 

Buttler now has the three quickest ODI centuries for the national team — off 46 balls, 47 balls and 50 balls.

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Hard-hitter Liam Livingstone made an unbeaten 22-ball 66 after joining Buttler for the final 5.2 overs. His was England’s fastest ODI fifty, from 17 balls, to beat the one in 21 deliveries set in a partnership between Eoin Morgan and Jonny Bairstow.

Livingstone had the chance to take England to 500 — a total that would have seemed unrealistic only 20 years ago — by taking strike with two balls left, with his team on 488. Off the next-to-last ball of the innings, his slog toward the midwicket boundary landed a couple of meters short of the rope and bounced for four. He smashed a six in the same area off the next ball.

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The Netherlands — playing an ODI against England for the first time outside a Cricket World Cup — had only a few moments to savor amid a barrage of big-hitting from the tourists, which led to a number of balls being lost outside the stadium.

Shane Snater bowled his cousin, Jason Roy, to leave England 1-1 and Pieter Seelaar took two wickets off successive balls — including Morgan for a golden duck.

Malan’s century was his first in ODIs and came off 90 balls. He now has hundreds in all three formats — the second England player to achieve that feat after Buttler.

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England — the defending 50-over world champion — has the top three ODI scores of all time, all of them being recorded since 2016. Dropping to No. 3 in the all-time list is its 444-3 against Pakistan in August 2016, also made at the traditionally fast track at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.

England’s latest huge total was the highest made in either internationals or at first-class level. The previous best was 496-4 by English county team Surrey against Gloucestershire at The Oval in 2007.

While England’s white-ball team is playing Netherlands, the Test side, led by Ben Stokes, has defeated New Zealand in two Tests. They will play the third at Headingley.