Two England world records continue our Christmas countdown!
Sunday 23 December 2018 06:52, UK
With two days to go until Christmas, let's re-live some sensational hitting from England's men and women's white-ball teams!
Trent Bridge and Taunton were teeming with runs over a tremendous two-day spell in June as Eoin Morgan's side smashed 481-6 off 50 overs in a series-sealing win over Australia, before Heather Knight's team clobbered 250-3 against South Africa in the Tri-Series T20.
Let the onslaught begin...
ENGLAND MEN BREAK OWN WORLD RECORD - 19th June
Alex Hales (147 off 92) top scored, while Jonny Bairstow (139 off 92 balls) cracked his fourth ton in six ODIs as England bested the 444-3 they amassed against Pakistan at the same venue in 2016 - Hales taking them past their previous best with a six off Jhye Richardson in the 46th over, one of a record 62 boundaries the hosts hit (41 fours and 21 sixes).
Australia, who elected to bowl, had no answer to England's brutal batting as the hosts passed 350 for the 11th time since their dismal showing at the 2015 World Cup and 400 for the third time, with Jason Roy contributing 82 from 61 balls and fit-again skipper Eoin Morgan hitting 67 from just 30.
Morgan overtook Ian Bell as England's highest ODI run scorer when he passed 41 and then completed his nation's quickest fifty in the format, from just 21 deliveries, during a superb display of hitting which left 500 looking possible.
Shell-shocked Australia were then skittled for 239 in 37 overs in reply - opener Travis Head (51) the only man to pass fifty as Adil Rashid bagged 4-47 - to slip to a 14th defeat in their last 16 completed ODIs and back-to-back series losses to England, having been humbled 4-1 over the winter.
T20I RECORD BROKEN TWICE IN A DAY - 20th June
England shattered the Women's T20I record score by blasting 250-3 against South Africa in a crushing 121-run win - just hours after New Zealand had thrashed the same opposition for a then-highest 216.
Tammy Beaumont (116 off 52) and Danni Wyatt (56 off 36) laid the foundations with a first-wicket stand of 147, before Katherine Brunt (42no off 16) and Nat Sciver (33 off 15) took England past the White Ferns' total as a beleaguered Proteas attack conceded 466 runs from 40 overs in the day.
Beaumont smashed 18 fours and four sixes during her maiden T20I hundred, with her 47-ball ton the second quickest in the women's game, only beaten by Deandra Dottin's 38-ball effort for Windies against South Africa in St Kitts in 2010.
Watch live action on Sky Sports Cricket this Christmas as New Zealand and Sri Lanka go head to head, before South Africa take on Pakistan.
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