England In India - Page 9

**Ljp86** · 23 Nov 2008, 09:20

Big advantage for England there. The moisture may have livened up the wicket and will no doubt slow the outfield so the shortening of the game has its pros and cons for both sides.

AB · 23 Nov 2008, 09:38

The wicket is completely dry as it was covered but the outfield might slow down. India need 180 but thats not going to happen. They're more likely to get somewhere around 150. Good chance for England to register their first win.

AB · 23 Nov 2008, 10:20

Turns out its not so bad for India. I was expecting England would be chasing whatever India score. But they apparently need 198 according to some D/L calculations.

**Ljp86** · 23 Nov 2008, 10:35

India scored 4/166 from their 22 overs, scoring exactly 60 from the final five. Sehwag made 69, Gambhir 40 and Yuvraj Singh 25 not out from only 11 balls. Graeme Swann picked up 2/21 from two overs as England were forced to bowl part-timers for the last five overs of India's innings.

In reply, England are 1/15 after 4 overs. Duckworth-Lewis calculations put the target score up to 198 which has really disadvantaged the English team. India have bowled very tight so far, Owais Shah the only one prepared to do the scoring with 12 not out at the moment.

Required rate is a touch over 10 runs per over now. Ishant Sharma comes on to bowl, new haircut and all.

AB · 23 Nov 2008, 10:45

Not sure what England is doing out there. Flintoff or Pietersen should be batting in the powerplays. They've completely wasted it.

**Ljp86** · 23 Nov 2008, 10:52

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Originally Posted by AB

Not sure what England is doing out there. Flintoff or Pietersen should be batting in the powerplays. They've completely wasted it.

Bell looks pretty lost out there, can barely get the ball away.

That over was much better though, 17 off that Yusuf Pathan over and England are 1/38 from seven. Required rate is back to 10.66 after being more than 11 during the early part of that over. Shah up to 29.

Batters have been taking a liking to the spinners while the quicks have proven much harder to get away. Ganguly would be very handy right now.

**Ljp86** · 23 Nov 2008, 10:55

Ah, Bell's gone. Gets down to it but misses and the slower pace put on the ball by Harbhajan sees the ball hit the stumps.

Pietersen's in now though and hits the first ball for 4, second is a dot.

2/48 from eight overs, Shah on 30, required rate now 10.71.

**Ljp86** · 23 Nov 2008, 21:40

England gave it their best but ended up falling short by 19 runs. Shah scored 72 from 48 balls and combined well with Flintoff (41 from 30) as they managed to score at the required rate for a short period of time before Zaheer Khan removed Shah and Ishant got rid of Flintoff in the next over. That was effectively the end of the contest as the remaining batters found it too difficult to try and smash everything from ball one.

England reached 8/178 from their 22 overs, Khan, Patel and Sharma all picked up two wickets to be the multiple wicket-takers for the Indians.

Another improved effort from England but they are still a fair way behind India and India have won the series 4-0. Game Five is on Wednesday at Cuttack.

**BigCricket** · 26 Nov 2008, 01:50

England have brought in opening batsman Alastair Cook and fast bowler Steve Harmison for the fifth one-day international against India in Cuttack.

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Jolldo87 · 26 Nov 2008, 02:50

India
Sehwag
Tendulkar
Raina
R. Sharma
Dhoni
Y. Singh
Y. Pathan
I. Pathan
H. Singh
Kahn
I. Sharma

England
Cook
Bopara
Shah
Pietersen
Flintoff
Collingwood
Prior
Patel
Broad
Swann
Harmison

India won the toss and elected to bowl.