India vs England 3rd ODI: India beat England by six wickets, detailed match commentary
Trent Bridge: England squandered away a good start as the Indian spinners restricted the hosts to 227 all out in 50 overs against India in the third one-day International, here on Saturday.
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Put into bat, England started on a brisk note courtesy an 82-run opening partnership between Alastair Cook (44) and Alex Hales (42) but the spinners checked their surge by picking up wickets at regular intervals.
Hales, playing his first ODI in front of his home crowd, was caught behind off part-time spinner Suresh Raina (1-37) while Cook was stumped off the bowling of Ambati Rayudu (1-8). Spinners continued to have a field day as left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (1-38) got Joe Root stumped for 2 while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (3-39) got Eoin Morgan caught behind for 10.
Ian Bell (28) hung around for a while only to be run out at the non-strikers end as Mohit Sharma's direct throw caught the batsman well short of his ground.
Raina celebrates taking the wicket of England's Alex Hales. -AP
Ashwin got another wicket after Raina took a beautiful swooping one-handed catch at first slip to send Ben Stokes out for 2.
Mohammed Shami (1-40) also joined the party after picking up Chris Woakes for 15 as the hosts slipped further. Wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler (42) showed some grit but failed to read Ashwin's off spin in the 48th over to give the bowler his third wicket.
James Tredwell (30 off 18 balls) played a brisk cameo in the final overs to give England some respectability as the left-hander hit three fours and a six to help England snatch 18 runs from the last over of the innings.
Tredwell though was caught and bowled off Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1-45) on the penultimate delivery while Steve Finn was run out on the final ball.
England did manage to hit 45 runs in the last 5 overs but considering their good start, the hosts may have fallen well short of a competitive score on this Trent Bridge track.
In reply, Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane gave India a steady start. India were 35/1 in 7.2 overs, chasing 228 to win as Woakes dismissed Dhawan for 16.
It was a huge boost for Steven Finn as he dismissed Rahane for 45.
Ben Stokes got rid of Kohli for 40 as India 120/3.
Rayudu took a single to take India to 200. India need another 28 runs to win the match.
Inching closer to victory, India lost Raina in the 40th over after he made 42 runs.
The story so far:
While India seek to continue their winning momentum and take an unassailable 2-0 lead, India were dealt a blow ahead of the third one-dayer against England in Nottingham on Saturday as opener Rohit Sharma was ruled out of the remainder of the tour because of injury.
Sharma, who had made a well-crafted half-century in India's 133-run hammering of England in the second game, suffered a fracture on the middle finger of his right hand. Murali Vijay has been picked as Sharma's replacement for the rest of the series.
Sharma's injury has turned out to be India's biggest worry going into the third One-dayer.
The first ODI in Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled and India hammered the hosts under the Duckworth/Lewis method in the second game in Cardiff to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match ODI series.
Teams:
India: Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni (C) (W), Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Mohit Sharma
England: Alastair Cook (C), Alex Hales, Ian Bell, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler (W), Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, James Tredwell, Steven Finn, James Anderson
