Perth: Mahli Beardman ripped through England's batting lineup in his first taste of international cricket on home soil Friday, taking six wickets to return the best figures ever by an Australian bowler on ODI debut.

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The white-ball series was overshadowed this week by the reignition of the 2018 Sandpapergate scandal. Less than four hours before the toss, Australia test captain Pat Cummins held a news conference in Sydney and described claims in Usman Khwaja's autobiography released this week as "complete and utter nonsense."

The 21-year-old Beardman did his upmost to get attention back on the field, taking his first ODI wicket with his eighth delivery and quickly rattling England's best batters to snare 6-24 and help dismiss the visitors for 131 in under 34 overs.

Beardman dismissed skipper Harry Brook (1) in the 12th over and former skipper Joe Root (17) - playing his 200th one-day international - in the 14th.

He started and finished his fourth over with the wickets of Jordan Cox (2) and Sam Curran (0) as England slumped to 58-6 at the end of the 16th. He then picked up Liam Dawson (0) in his next over to become the first Australian since Tony Dodemaide - who took 5-21 against Sri Lanka in 1988 - to claim a five-wicket haul on his ODI debut.

He finished off the innings with the wicket of No. 11 Jofra Archer (11). The first eight England wickets combined for 65 runs; the last two partnerships added 66.

"It all happened very quickly," Beardman said in a post-session TV interview. "It's a great privilege and honor to be able to represent my country. To go out and take a few wickets as well was just cherry on top."

Beardman's only previous international experience was a T20 against Pakistan at Lahore in January.

The Western Australian paceman used an ideal length that he learned in the Perth conditions to elicit edges from Brook, Root and Cox as they tried to play forward, and he pulled it back to have Curren caught at fine leg from a short-pitched delivery. His fifth wicket, a fuller ball that moved away, had Dawson caught slicing to backward point.

Left-arm paceman Spencer Johnson (3-42) started the wickets tumbling when he got some extra bounce and had Ben Duckett caught at backward point in the fifth over. And he took a spectacular leaping, one-handed return catch to dismiss Jamie Overton (4) as England ended the 19th over at 65-8.

Will Jacks helped England reach triple figures with a steadying knock of 25 from 47 balls in a ninth-wicket stand with Gus Atkinson but fell to the first delivery from Johnson after a drinks break and the total slipped to 102-9.

Australia's squad for the three ODIs and five T20s against England is missing front-line pace bowlers Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Scott Boland, who are all resting ahead of the four-test series against New Zealand and next year's test tours to India and England.

After winning the toss and electing to bowl Friday, Australia's ODI captain Mitch Marsh said Beardman, as a West Australian, couldn't have asked for a better place to debut.

"We've got a reasonably young and inexperienced side, but lots of energy," he said.

England's squad arrived in Australia on the back of a tri-series in Pakistan, where it lost three games before Duckett and Dawson inspired a 55-run consolation win over Sri Lanka.

There were some tough defeats, particularly when Brook's fastest-ever ODI double-century wasn't enough to stop Sri Lanka from achieving the second-highest successful run chase - 430 runs - in ODI history, and the one-wicket loss to Pakistan.

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