Highlights
- Rohit gained the toss and opted to bowl first.
- Hardik Pandya grabbed a career-best 4/24.
- Rishabh Pant completed with 125 off 113 deliveries.
Led by Rishabh Pant’s magnificent maiden 100 and Hardik Pandya‘s all-round present India defeated England by 5 wickets to win the third ODI and the sequence 2-1.
Rohit gained the toss and opted to bowl first. Bowling first, Hardik Pandya grabbed a career-best 4/24 as a disciplined India bowled out England for 259 with greater than 4 overs to spare within the series-deciding third and last ODI right here on Sunday.
Skipper Jos Buttler top-scored for England with an 80-ball 60, but it surely was the flamboyant all-rounder from Gujarat, who dominated the primary half of the match along with his glorious bowling, sending out a warning to the opponents within the 12 months of the T20 World Cup.
Taking part in instead of injured Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj bought a large confidence increase early on, when he dismissed Jonny Bairstow along with his third ball of the day. Because the England opener formed as much as play it on the leg-side, the bat turned in his hand and the ball ballooned to Shreyas Iyer at mid-off following a forefront.
His tails up, Siraj then ran in to bowl to the prolific Joe Root, bought the ball to maneuver away, and the surface edge was properly taken by skipper Rohit Sharma at second slip. Siraj squared Root up along with his late motion. With two of their in-form batters again within the hut for geese, England was in bother at 12 for 2.
This was after Jason Roy (41) collected three boundaries off Mohammed Shami, together with a 4 via mid-off within the very first supply of the match. Rohit made a daring transfer to subject first on condition that eight of the final 9 video games at Outdated Trafford have been gained by groups batting first.
His English counterpart Buttler was glad to bat first and Bumrah not round was comforting for the hosts. However little did he know that the world-class bowler’s alternative for the day would rock their boat so early into their innings, that too on a batting-friendly wicket.
Ben Stokes confirmed what a very good pitch it was to bat on when he supplied the face of the blade to push the ball via the off-side for a 4.
Roy and Stokes steadied the innings however when their counterattacking partnership reached 54 runs, Hardik had the previous caught behind after tying him down by bowling to a decent line and size.
The ball was on the shorter facet however there was hardly any room for Roy to free his arms, and the end result was England shedding their third wicket with 66 runs on the board. In the midst of a positive spell, Hardik sustained the stress from his finish and shortly he had the English Take a look at captain caught and bowled.
It was a reward for some sensible bowling by Hardik who dropped the ball quick after he noticed a pissed off Stokes stepping out, the all-rounder getting his second wicket maiden.
India’s bowling was tight, a lot in order that England may rating simply 16 runs in seven overs since Roy’s departure. Returning to the assault, Siraj hit Buttler on the helmet twice within the house of three balls. On each events, the physio took a take a look at him as per the concussion protocol, however the batter appeared okay.
The English captain in the meantime smashed Yujvendra Chahal (3/60) for a six-over long-on, Moeen Ali (34) bought a most towards Siraj earlier than the 2 once more hit a six every in that order. Having bought his eye in, Moeen was out caught down the leg facet off Ravindra Jadeja, who additionally pulled off a superb catch operating a good distance from deep sq. leg. England had been in the end folded for 259 and weren’t even in a position to play their full quota of fifty overs.
Chasing 260, India misplaced Dhawan and Rohit early. Kohli made a handsome 17 earlier than getting out to Topley. Sruyakumar Yadav too didn’t impress because the MI batter bought out after a laborious 16 off 28 deliveries.
Hardik then joined Pant within the center. The duo began cautiously however then took the attacking route. Pandya, specifically, was at his attacking his greatest, because the GT skipper made a sensational 71 off simply 55 deliveries.
Rishabh Pant continued until the top, hit his maiden 100, scored 125 off 113 deliveries, hit Willey for five consecutive boundaries in forty second over and took his facet dwelling. All in all, India closed off a really profitable tour of England. They drew the check sequence, gained the T20 sequence 2-1, and closed it off with ODI sequence win 2-1.
(Inputs PTI)