Post-Finch Aussie experiment off to flying start

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If David Warner and Travis Head brace up arsenic Australia's openers astatine adjacent year's 50-over World Cup successful India, they conscionable gave their rivals a formidable glimpse of the demolition that could prevarication ahead.

In Australia's archetypal one-day planetary since the status of skipper and long-time opener Aaron Finch successful September, Warner and Head combined for a 147-run basal to acceptable up a six-wicket triumph implicit England astatine Adelaide Oval connected Thursday.

Chasing 288 runs to triumph aft England archetypal driblet Dawid Malan compiled 134 from 128, Australia had small trouble.

Warner has made it wide helium intends to diagnostic successful his 3rd ODI World Cup astatine adjacent year's edition, acceptable to instrumentality spot crossed October and November, but the antheral to articulation him arsenic Finch's replacement remains a mystery.

Warner peeled off 86 runs from 84 balls and Head 69 from 57 successful Thursday's ODI.

They some struck 10 fours and a six arsenic Australia cruised to triumph successful 46.5 overs, frustrating England conscionable 4 days aft Jos Buttler and his teammates won the T20 World Cup last against Pakistan.

Warner and Head took vantage of an understrength England bowling attack, with Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Ben Stokes and Adil Rashid each rested for the low-key fixture.

While Warner and Finch were Australia's openers for the 2015 and 2019 editions of the ODI World Cup, it's Warner and Head who ain the grounds for highest first-wicket concern by an Australian brace successful 50-over cricket.

Warner and Head joined forces for 284 runs against Pakistan astatine Adelaide Oval successful 2017.

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Thursday's occurrence has each but locked them successful arsenic Australia's openers for the last 2 ODIs of the bid against England, astatine the SCG and MCG, but Cameron Green, Usman Khawaja and Matthew Renshaw are among the candidates to spouse Warner astatine the apical of the bid astatine the 50-over World Cup.

Head was his typically straight-shooting aforesaid erstwhile asked however helium recovered the unit arsenic Finch's replacement.

"Pretty casual with Davey astatine the different end," Head said.

"He got disconnected to a flyer, which we were capable to thrust disconnected ... and instrumentality the crippled on, which we were capable to do.

"Nice to lend to a win.

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"He puts truthful overmuch unit connected the bowling ... truthful if I tin get him connected the different extremity and helium tin enactment unit on, hopefully I tin get a fewer escaped balls astatine the other.

"The concern (has worked) truly good successful the past.

"It's bully to get distant archetypal up, and hopefully we tin bash it again."

Head departed 19 overs into Thursday's chase and Warner followed 9 overs later, by which constituent archetypal driblet Steve Smith was good connected his mode to an unbeaten 80 from 78.

Australia and England volition conscionable successful the 2nd ODI astatine the SCG connected Saturday, earlier clashing successful the last lucifer of the bid astatine the MCG adjacent Tuesday.

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