Carlton Tri-series: Ton-up Warner ton steers Australia to easy win over England

SydneyContinuing his blazing form David Warner struck a scintillating hundred to guide Australia to a comfortable threewicket victory over England in the opening match of the trination Oneday cricket series here todayAustralias batsman David Warner celebrates as he reaches 100 runs during the triseries oneday cricket match against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday PicAFPBatting first England never really got the momentum after a toporder collapse despite skipper Eoin Morgans brilliant counterattacking 121 which took the team total to 234 in 475 overs None of the other England players even crossed 30run markIn reply Warners 115ball127 laid the foundation as Australia scored the required runs in 395 overs which ensured a precious bonus point for them having achieved the target within 40 overs In the process they lost a few wickets but they always had a firm grip on the proceedingsWarner who scored his third hundred in ODIs and the first in almost three years started from where he left the Test series against India He had scored three centuries in series won 20 by his sideWarner struck 18 boundaries and his most productive shot turned out to be the cover drive as he dispatched the Englands quartet of Stuart Broad Steven Finn Chris Woakes and Chris Jordan in that region It was a fairly chanceless innings with exception of a sharp chance when wicketkeeper Jos Buttler failed to collect an edge off Jordans bowling when he was on 70 He swept offspinner Moeen Ali for a boundary to complete a welldeserved hundred off only 97 balls with 14 boundariesOn reaching the milestone Warner set his sights on a bonus point as he started to attack hitting four more boundaries Warner hit Woakes for two boundaries before a back of the hand slower saw him miscue am inside out shot which ballooned up only for Ian Bell to catch at point Australia also lost Brad Haddin before James Faulkner scored the winning runsEnglands batsman Eoin Morgan in full flow during his innings against Australia in the triseries oneday match at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday PicAFPEarlier it was skipper Morgan who came to Englandsresuce after a toporder collapse and singlehandedly took hisside to a respectable 234 as the visiting side slumped to 33for four in the ninth overThe top half of the England batting lineup were gone for69 runs in the 16th overBut Morgan who took over England ODI captaincy recentlyfrom Alastair Cook stood tall amid ruins as he anchored thevisiting sides innings with a 136ball 121 in the first matchof the triseries also involving IndiaMorgan struck 11 fours and three sixes in his superbknock after coming on to bat in the fourth over when his teamscore was at a precarious 12 for threeMorgan shared a crucial 67run partnership withwicketkeeper Jos Butler 28 for the sixth wicket to revivethe innings He stitched another 56run partnership with Chris Jordan 17 for the eighth wicket before he was the ninth England batsman to depart in the 48th overNone of the other England batsmen could make any substantial contribution with Butler 28 being the second highest scorerDuring the start of the match Mitchell Starc extractedbounce from the SCG pitch and picked up two wickets in hisfirst three deliveriesHe got opener Ian Bell from the first ball of the inningsand then dismissed onedown James Taylor for a duck a deliverylater as England lost two wickets without opening theiraccountEngland then lost wickets at regular intervals with Starcclaiming two more scalps later that of Morgan and tailenderSteven Finn 0 while his pace colleague James Faulknerchipped in with three wickets for 47 runs Pat Cummins GlennMaxwell and Xavier Doherty took a wicket eachStarc got the right line and length in his first ball asBell attempted to defend the ball that swung in and hit hisright leg plumb in front of the stumpsTaylor did not trouble the scorer as he tried to clipanother inswinging delivery on the leg side but was beaten bythe movement and struck in front of leg stumpPromising England batsman Joe Root also did not last longas he fell to Cummins in the fourth over for five edging alength ball straight to Shane Watson at first slipOpener Moeen Ali 22 showed some promise and lookedlike settling down along with Morgan to rescue the EnglandinningsAli hit a huge six off Starc in the seventh overclipping the ball off his pads to the wide long on boundaryBut he was out two overs later off the bowling ofFaulkner with Glenn Maxwell taking an easy catch in the deepafter the batsman drove the delivery on the up