Match Details

ENG vs IND 1st Match, ENG vs IND 2021

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ENG
251-1042.1
India won by 66 runs
IND
50.0317-5
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M Wood Logo
M Wood Jersy

M Wood

2

(7)

M Wood
2(7)
4s: 0
6s: 0
SR:28.57
+
T Curran Logo
T Curran Jersy

T Curran

11

(16)

T Curran
11(16)
4s: 1
6s: 0
SR:68.75
P Krishna Logo
P Krishna Jersy

P Krishna

4-54

(8.1)

P Krishna

4-54(8.1)
Econ: 6.61
40th Over:
1
W
0
1
1
0
 
= 3
41st Over:
0
0
4
0
1
0
 
= 5
Last Over:
1
0
0
1
0
1
 
= 3
This Over:
W
 
= 0

Player of the Match

Shikhar Dhawan Logo
Shikhar Dhawan Jersy
Shikhar Dhawan
India
98(106)
ENGENG - 2nd Innings
SessionOpenPASS
10 Over 5489
20 Over 161157
INDIND - 1st Innings
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10 Over 5139
20 Over 9583
30 Over 145159
35 Over 191187
40 Over 216205
50 Over 295317

Commentary

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That's it from the commentary box folks. A commanding victory for the home team as they take a 1-0 lead in the 3 match series. Till the start of the 2nd ODI it's adieus from me, Arya Sekhar Chakraborty and my co-commentators Akshay Bhide, Nikhil Kulkarni and Arjun Bhalla. Good night and sleep tight.
Shikhar Dhawan, Man of the Match: Very happy with my performance - more than that, our team won. Was doing good gym sessions, running sessions and net sessions. All the smart work paid off. We knew ball was swinging and seaming as well, so we knew we had to stay at the wicket and play close to the body. I'm not a person who gets too sad or too happy. Wasn't in a rush to score hundred. Unfortunately, it went to hand, that's alright. It happens. When I wasn't playing I was like how I could give to the team. I was being a good 12th man, running around, serving water. In my head, it was that when I get an opportunity I will grab it and thankfully it happened just the way I had planned.
Shikhar Dhawan wins the Man of the Match for his knock of 98.
Virat Kohli, India Captain: This is one of our sweetest wins in the recent past. This one is right up there with any other. Getting nine wickets so quickly is outstanding. To come back into the game the way they did is brilliant. I'm a really, really proud man right now. Team showed great character and intensity. As I mentioned in the past as well, we promote players who have intent. Special mention to Shikhar's innings as well. KL as well, back among the runs. Want to back the people who we know will go out and do a selfless job. For every spot we have two-three players available. Great signs for Indian cricket. Right now we are on the right path and have a big pool of players to choose from. Shikhar's body language was amazing when he wasn't playing. He was so helpful for us. Today he deserved the result. He batted in the most toughest phase today and got 95 which is more valuable than what the scoreboard shows. The ploy was that when we got to 100-partnership, I told Shikhar I'll take the bowling on. Few wickets pushed us back a little bit. It's a fair assessment (that we were below par). Under lights as well, the ball was coming on nicely.
Prasidh Krishna gets the Dream11 Game Changer of the Match.
Krunal Pandya gets ACC Kamal ka Moment of the Match Award.
Eoin Morgan, England captain: Did a lot of things right today. Wicket was brilliant as well which made for an entertaining game. There was something for the seamers but if you got in, you could score heavily too. Our bad days with the bat make it look worse than usual. Need to execute better than we did today. When you look at our top seven in particular, we've all scored under 60 ball hundreds. That's the way we want to play. With one eye on the WC, we want to try and push the envelope in that regard. Sometimes it doesn't work. But for us it's better to lose like that than losing by 10-20 runs. That's the way we'll continue playing. Fitness levels have moved the game forward, bats have moved the game forward. Important for us to dictate the way we play and reinforce the method that's worked for us. Our bowlers did an outstanding job with traditional Test lengths and line that proved effective. Didn't probably play well enough to take advantage of the dew. Which is disappointing because the toss is an advantage here in India.
Prasidh Krishna, Game Changer: I didn't start off well, they went hard, but we took wickets in a cluster. I just wanted to hit good areas, I thought after the third over I can't bowl full and hit the good lengths. As a bowling unit, we were outstanding today. I want to be called a hit-the-deck bowler, I think I'm better at it. I will go back, work on my lengths, and come back. I hope I can do it for the team for long. From the beginning even if we are going for runs, the talk was to pick up a wicket.
Arya: Earlier in the day it was again English skipper Eoin Morgan who won the toss and put the hosts in. The start from India was very cautious by both Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. Despite the slowish start, India didn't lose a wicket which kept them in good stead and in the next 10 they started taking on the English bowlers. Dhawan finally stormed back to form and fell just two runs short of a well-deserved century. Rohit Sharma fell against the run of play but the partnership between Virat Kohli and Dhawan turned the match in India's favour. Both played some delightful shots en route to their half-centuries and looked in complete command of proceedings. The wicket of Virat Kohli did break the shackles and the batsmen found it difficult to get going. Iyer and Dhawan also fell in quick succession. Even Hardik Pandya couldn't make much impact but it was the partnership between KL Rahul and Krunal Pandya which helped India sail past the 300 mark. After struggling a bit, Rahul got back to his rhythm and smashed a well-deserved half-century. Krunal in particular was aggressive in his approach right from the word go and went onto become the fastest half-centurion in ODI debut. An unbeaten partnership of 112 runs in 57 balls propelled India to a score of 317 which proved to be way too much in the end.
Arya: Chasing the target of 318, Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow raced off to a scintillating start and India on the backfoot right from the word go. After playing out the first 4 overs cautiously, both Roy and Bairstow started throwing the kitchen sink and the Indian bowlers were left wondering for answers. Some scintillating strokes followed as the duo literally made a mockery of the Indian bowling. A partnership of 135 runs in 14 overs and England were well and truly on the driver's seat. However, it was debutant Prasidh Krishna who broke England's backbone with quick wickets of Jason Roy and Ben Stokes. He would have got the English skipper Eoin Morgan in the very first delivery had Virat Kohli held onto an easy chance at slip but that wasn't to be. Again it was Shardul Thakur who bagged crucial wickets in important junctures of the match and from there on it was a mountain too steep to climb for the visitors. Morgan and Buttler were dismissed by Shardul in a single over and England was right on the backfoot. A brief partnership between Moeen Ali and Sam Billings did bring England back into the match but the wicket of Billings was the final nail in the coffin as Prasidh Krishna and Bhuvneshwar Kumar blew away the tail as India notched up a convincing 66 runs victory.
Arya: A thoroughly convincing victory for the Men in Blue in the opening encounter at Pune as they take a 1-0 lead in the 3 match ODI series. The chase of 318 was always going to be a tall ask for the visitors but the start provided by Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow had put them well in front of the match but the wicket of Roy opened the floodgates and wickets kept falling at regular intervals which never really allowed England to claw their way back into the game. In the end it was India who won the match by 66 runs.
42.1 Prasidh Krishna to Tom Curran
W WICKET!!!! Seamed up full delivery outside the off stump for Tom Curran who goes to hoick the ball in the air but fails to middle it and mistimes the stroke!! The ball goes high in the air towards the deep point area where Bhuvneshwar Kumar holds onto the catch under the lights!! Prasidh Krishna takes his fourth wicket with the best figures for an Indian in his ODI game!
OVER 42.0
England
251/9
Mark Wood
2(7)
Tom Curran
11(15)
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
2-30(9.0)
41.6 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Tom Curran
1 Back of length at middle and leg. Tom shuffles in the off side and pushes it to deep cover for a single
41.5 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Tom Curran
0 A big heave from Tom Curran and misses the ball completely! Slower one outside off and Bhuvi outfoxes him!
41.4 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Mark Wood
1 Off stump yorker for Mark Wood and he gets some bat somehow!!! He edges it to fine leg for a run
41.3 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Mark Wood
0 Back of a length delivery just outside off and Wood punches this down the cover fielder off the backfoot.
41.2 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Mark Wood
0 Back of length outside off and Wood leaves the ball. No need to play such stuff
41.1 Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Tom Curran
1 Good length delivery into Tom Curran who plays it to vacant mid wicket area to take a brace but Bhuvi comes the distance and keeps them down to a single
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