2nd Test: West Indies v Australia at Kingston

The proclamation of a new era in England's one-day cricket has been a regular event for the last 20 years. The end results have usually been so underwhelming as to not get carried away by one performance, but never has a phase of rebuilding begun in such barnstorming style as they managed at Edgbaston. England secured their largest runs victory in an ODI as rampant hundreds from Jos Buttler and Joe Root led them beyond the new watermark of 400 for the first time in an ODI.

Buttler, who already held the record of England's fastest ODI hundred with his 61-ball ton against Sri Lanka, at Lord's, last year slotted himself in at No. 2 as well with a free-wheeling 66-ball effort. Barely an hour earlier, Root had stood at No. 3 on the list with an equally outstanding 71-ball hundred but by the end of the innings - which included a world-record seventh-wicket stand of 177 in 17 overs, between Buttler and Adil Rashid, and an England record 14 sixes - he had to be content with fourth.

The final total of 408 - surpassing their previous best of 391 made against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge in 2005 - was the 16th total over 400 in ODIs. Five of those have come since the start of 2015, encompassing the World Cup, highlighting, if any further evidence was required, just how far behind the pack England's one-day game had become. The mark was passed when Liam Plunkett cleared the ropes in the final over.

ENGLAND scored more than 400 runs in a one-day international for the first time on its way to a 210-run win over New Zealand in the first match of the series on Tuesday.

Joe Root (104) and Jos Buttler (129) smashed two of England’s quickest-ever centuries as the team blasted its highest ODI total of 9-408, shrugging off the conservative approach that has held back its 50-over side in recent years.

New Zealand was dismissed for 198 in 31.1 overs, with Steven Finn and Adil Rashid both taking four wickets.

“They blew us off the park,” New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said. “It was the complete performance by England.”

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra stumper Hemant Kanitkar, who had a 15-year first class career but played in only two Tests as a batsman in the home series against Clive Lloyd's West Indies in 1974-75, passed away in Pune at his residence last night (Wednesday).

The Amravati (Maharashtra)-born wicket-keeper batsman was 72 and is survived by his wife and two sons, Hrishikesh, also a former India cricketer, and Aditya, according to Maharashtra Cricket Association sources.

Kanitkar, a stocky hard-hitting wicket keeper batsman, whose first class career commenced in 1963, but coincided with those of other wicket-keeper batsmen like Farokh Engineer, Budhi Kunderan and Inderjit Singh to deny him an early shot at an India berth, batted at no. 3 in the opening Test of the series against Lloyd's West Indians at Bangalore and made 65.

Subsequent scores of 18, 8 and 20 in his next three innings that included the second Test at Delhi, where too Engineer kept wickets, confined him to the list of forgotten men of Indian cricket as far as the national selectors were concerned.

But Kanitkar kept playing for Maharashtra till 1978. In his first class career spanning a decade and a half Kanitkar amassed 5,007 runs at an impressive average of 42.79 with 13 centuries and 87 dismissals.

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