5th ODI: India v England at Dharamsala - Jan 27, 2013

[Hallatia]

England all out for 155, Root the top scorer with 39.
All the Indian bowlers took wickets, Jadeja with the best bowling figures of 3/19

155 is no 74, but this is the subcontinent so it will be difficult to defend. That said, small targets can be tricky for sides chasing, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens. I don't think England have the bowling personnel in this match to do what's required

 

[Hallatia]

India won by 7 wickets and take a 2-1 lead in the series. They made the runs in under 30 overs

 

[vvvrulz]

I'm sorry Mrs Yurav I didn't realise that you had an invested interest in the matter.

I present a proper argument and the best you have is "mrs yurav"? Gee what happened to the art of simple debate.

 

[Hallatia]

closing in on the interval in this game and I think England are in a solid position 76s to Cook and KP and Root is going on solidly with the bat. England look likely to get 250 odd, so the bowling still needs to be good to get a win here which England need to stay in the series

 

[vvvrulz]

England 257/7 (50.0 ov)

Decent total, defendable for sure. Its a miracle Gambhir is still in this team.

 

[Hallatia]

I still think England need to bowl well to defend that total, 257 isn't a huge total and this match is being played in Asia

 

[TheParraboy]

This Root bloke , gee he is taking his chances when in the pommie side

 

[Hallatia]

I like his name, I hope he sticks around

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Gee Rohit Sharmas lbw call looked like a pretty bad call, he was looking awesome.

 

[Hallatia]

crucial wicket for England. It is now very much game on. All of a sudden of course

England need to take Dhoni's wicket

 

[lockyno1]

Gee Rohit Sharmas lbw call looked like a pretty bad call, he was looking awesome.

Good, might make them use DRS!:lol:

 

[Hallatia]

I don't think it will, they get enough of those in their favour for them to know that these things do tend to cancel each other out

 

[Fufu Andronez]

Haha Finn you lanky dickhead bowl wider on the crease. That was painful to watch.

 

[Hallatia]

series win for India. The only top country (not that they're really top at the moment) not under performing in ODIs

 

[TheParraboy]

Eng win toss and are fielding in this 5th ODI dead rubber

 

[Hallatia]

India
1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 Suresh Raina, 6 MS Dhoni (captain and keeper), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Shami Ahmed, 11 Ishant Sharma

England 1
Alastair Cook (captain), 2 Ian Bell, 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Joe Root, 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Samit Patel, 7 Jos Buttler (keeper), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Tim Bresnan, 10 James Tredwell, 11 Steven Finn

I think England might want to win a little bit more than India who have already won the series and can't clean sweep. Dhoni got out for 15, India are 106 for 5 after 29. IF there are more wickets, India will be lucky to make 200