ENGLAND has heaped further humiliation on an Australian one-day team in freefall posting a new world record score of 6-481 at Trent Bridge before rolling the battling tourists for 239 in a history making match for both teams.

The massive 242-run defeat was Australia’s biggest loss in 47 years and 915 games of one day cricket, eclipsing a 206 run loss to New Zealand in Adelaide in 1986.

England secured a second successive one-day series win against Australia for the first time since 1988/87 and the Aussies have now lost four consecutive ODI series for the first time in history.

It was Australia’s seventh loss to England in the past eight games, a 14th loss in the past 16 ODIs and came on the back of the reigning World Cup champions dropping to sixth on the ICC rankings, a 34 year low.

After posting the imposing total England’s spin twins of Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali took seven wickets between them and Australia’s challenge lasted just 37 overs.

New coach Justin Langer has little room to move with an inexperienced bowling attack which has now been pounded twice in two games. England scored 343 in game two at Cardiff, which was the host’s best ever score against Australia, until now. That’s 824 runs conceded in 100 overs of bowling.

Andrew Tye, in just his seventh one-day international, produced the second worst ever bowling performance by an Aussie returning figures of 0-100 in just nine overs. He now has 1-181 in his last 17 overs of international cricket, after going for 81 runs in Cardiff.

“He’s just not challenging the stumps,” former Australian captain Ricky Ponting said in commentary for Sky Sports, lamenting Tye’s lack of a plan.

Excuses are present for the main bowling attack, which boasts just 21 games of combined one-day experience.

That’s not including D’Arcy Short, Marcus Stoinis, Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell who all bowled at Trent Bridge as captain Tim Paine tried, in vain, to slow the English batsmen down.

Ricky Ponting suggested spinner Nathan Lyon, on the tour but unused so far, should get picked in the final two games.

“Maybe now is the time to look at Nathan Lyon in this starting eleven,” he said.

But Lyon could just prove more fodder for the English batting outfit which is playing without fear.

Big centuries to Alex Hales (147) and Jonny Bairstow (139) plus 67 runs off just 30 balls from captain Eoin Morgan, the quickest 50 in English one-day history, helped the world’s number one team continue an alarming domination of the Aussies.

At the same venue where England set the previous record of 3-444 against Pakistan in 2016, the top order bludgeoned the Aussie attack from the outset and finished with 62 boundaries, including 21 sixes to reel in the old mark inside 47 overs.

Only a late slowdown in the slogging stopped the home team reaching 500 as the tourists struggled for answers on a flat pitch, after Paine won the toss and bowled.

But not much went right for Australia from the outset. Marcus Stoinis dropped Bairstow when he was only 30, and the relieved batsmen hit the next ball for four.

Bairstow also survived a confident LBW appeal which Australia reviewed when it was turned down on-field, only for the video evidence to show it was somehow missing the stumps.

The English opener went on to record his fourth hundred in his past six one-day innings, over which he is averaging 92.

“It was amazing, this ground is a special ground for us, the lads always tend to bring something exciting. It was really, really good fun out there,” Bairstow said.

Twice the Australian bowlers had batsmen caught off full tosses later in the innings too, only to have them called no-balls, one after a video review.

Rather than wickets they turned in to free hits and the English batsmen took full advantage of the Australian mistakes.

The expectation around the ground was Australia was no chance of getting the runs, but the tourists were right in the chase and actually ahead, if only in the amount of runs scored, up until the 14th over.

But the Aussies were also two wickets down, then three when Shaun Marsh was caught on the boundary in the next over. That became four, then five before the innings was half way through.

England had piled up 37 boundaries to the 25 over mark and was 1-203. Australia had just 17, was 5-178, the required run rate was 12 an over, and they were no chance to set the second world record for the day.

Both Langer and Paine are still yet to enjoy victory as a coach and captain combination and while the new pair get a grace period, performances like this one won’t go down well with an Australian sporting public not at all use to losing.

And it won’t do anything to help blow away the black cloud which continues to linger over Australian cricket after the ball-tampering incident in South Africa.

That also lead to suspensions of Steve Smith and David warner, a couple of players Langer would, like his injured bowling brigade, be desperate to get back in his team as soon as fitness, and availability, allows.

But none will be around for game four in Durham on Thursday where Australia will have to find some fight to avoid an English whitewash.