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Justin Langer hopes Australia will be better for 'brutal' England loss

"I have to look after them all, These are the days when you are like a dad not a headmaster. We'll look after them. "It was a tough day but we'll keep chipping away at it tomorrow."

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Justin Langer

Justin Langer

Australia coach Justin Langer hopes his side will be better for a "brutal" and record-breaking defeat by England in the third one-day international in Nottingham on Tuesday that was "nothing like" anything he had ever seen before. England piled up 481 for six, the highest ever total in men's ODI history, following hundreds by Alex Hales (147) and Jonny Bairstow (139), with Jason Roy (82) and skipper Eoin Morgan, who made a quickfire 67, also taking part in the Trent Bridge run-spree. In reply, world champions Australia were dismissed for just 239 as England won by 242 runs -- their heaviest victory and Australia's largest defeat, in terms of runs, at this level. Langer said Australia, now 3-0 down in the five-match contest against 2019 World Cup hosts England, "can't have had a worse day" as they suffered a 14th defeat in 16 completed ODIs. Amid a welter of depressing statistics for the tourists, England hit a staggering 21 sixes and 41 fours, while Australia paceman Andrew Tye's nine wicketless overs cost 100 runs.

'Shock'
Former Australia batsman Langer admitted the crushing reverse which condemned his side to their fourth straight bilateral series defeat in this format, topped even an extraordinary 2006 ODI that saw South Africa make 438 for nine in reply to Australia's 434 for four at Johannesburg's Wanderers ground. "It's a shock," said a stunned Langer. "That is literally England at its best. It's no fluke that they are No.1 in the world. "I've never seen nothing like that. I was in Johannesburg when Australia got 400 and South Africa then got it, but that was just brutal," he added.

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