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Southampton: Aaron Finch's record-breaking innings saw Australia to a first competitive international win in 200 days as they beat England by 39 runs in the first Twenty20 international at Southampton on Thursday.
Man-of-the-match Finch's stunning 156, the highest individual score in all Twenty20 internationals, was the cornerstone of Australia's 248 for six, itself the second-highest team score at this level.
England, who wrapped up a 3-0 Ashes series win with a draw at The Oval on Sunday, unsurprisingly lost early wickets when faced with such a colossal chase and finished on 209 for six.
Victory saw Australia go 1-0 up in a two-match series that concludes in Durham on Saturday.
Australia hadn't won a major international match since a 17-run victory over the West Indies at Melbourne on February 10 saw them complete a 5-0 one-day international series clean sweep.
Finch's runs came from just 63 balls and the 26-year-old Victorian opener, playing just his seventh match at this level, comfortably surpassed the previous Twenty20 world record of 123 set by New Zealand's Brendon McCullum against Bangladesh at Pallekele in September last year.
Remarkably, Finch got off the mark, reached his 50, hundred and 150 with sixes.
Indeed his 14 sixes were also a world record for the most in any individual T20 international innings, with Finch also striking 11 fours.
Finch's century was only the 10th in all T20 internationals, the first by an Australian and the first by any batsman at this level in England.
Dernbach finally bowled Finch and removed Shane Watson as Australia fell short of Sri Lanka's T20 international record team total of 260 for six against Kenya in Johannesburg in 2007.
But Australia's total was the highest by one Test nation against another in this format of the game.
Australia opening bowlers Mitchell Johnson and Josh Hazlewood took four wickets between them as England slumped to 42 for four, with their side showing just two survivors from The Oval in Broad and Joe Root.
However, it was Root's commendable 90 not out -- his first T20 international innings -- off just 49 balls, including 13 fours and a six, which prevented a humiliating loss.
Earlier, England have won the toss and they have bowl first.
Danny Briggs play on his home turf, while Fawad Ahmed to make his debut for Australia.
Teams
England: Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Luke Wright, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (wk), Stuart Broad (Capt.), Steven Finn, Danny Briggs and Jade Dernbach
Australia: David Warner, Aaron Finch, Shane Watson, Shaun Marsh, George Bailey (Capt.), Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Wade (wk), James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Josh Hazlewood and Fawad Ahmed
Brief scores
Australia 248 for 6 (Finch 156)
England 209 for 6 (Root 90*)
Result Australia won by 39 runs
MOM Aaron Finch (Australia)
