England: Indian cricket team defeated England 2-1 in the 3-match ODI series. The decisive match between the two teams was played at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester. The series was tied 1-1 before the start of this match. In this match, Rohit Sharma invited the English team to bat first.
England scored 259 under captain Jos Buttler after a poor start. Chasing that, Team India won with 5 wickets to spare despite losing their top-3 batsmen cheaply. With this win, Team India has won the series 2-1.
Jason Roy and Ben Stokes try to manage the innings in the ENG vs IND final match. But both the batsmen were dismissed with 41 and 27 runs respectively. Therefore, the hosts lost 4 wickets in just 74 runs. Captain Jos Buttler contributed 60 runs while batting with restraint. Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone also played impressive innings to support him. In the end, Craig Overton scored 32 to take the team to 259.
With Hardik Pandya taking two wickets in his first three overs, Team India’s bowling has been good so far in the series. In the final match, India bowled out England for just 259 runs despite the absence of Jasprit Bumrah. It started with Mohammad Siraj taking the wickets of players like Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root.
After this, in the middle overs, Hardik Pandya broke the back of the English batting team by picking up important wickets of Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Liam Livingstone. Hardik took 4 wickets for just 24 runs in 7 overs. Supporting him, Yuzvendra Chahal also collected 3 wickets in his account.
Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were dismissed for 3, 17 and 17 runs respectively. India lost their experienced batsmen for a combined total of just 38 runs. However, after this, Suryakumar Yadav shared a partnership of 34 runs with Rishabh Pant. But Surya was dismissed for 72 runs contributing 16 runs.
In this difficult situation, Team India seemed to be lagging behind. But the pair of Rishabh Pant (125) and Hardik Pandya (71) agreed on something different. Both the batsmen started to build a slow partnership as they took their time at the start of their innings and came close to the target and put on a brilliant 133-run partnership. In the end, Rishabh Pant scored a quick century, which led to Team India winning the match by 5 wickets and pocketing the series.
