England beat Dhoni-led India again

India (Shar)made (Parth)IV changes to their playing (Pat)eleven – the man from Ahmedabad, Rahul Dravid, Rohit and Munaf Patel made way for Robin Uthappa, Twenty20 International debutant Manoj Tiwary, Ravindra Jadeja and Yusuf Pathan.

England made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Eoin Morgan and Stuart Broad made way for Jonny Bairstow and Steven Finn.

On winning the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, chose to bat.

The first Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth Powerplay. They scored 32, and lost three wickets.

Ajinkya Rahane, who faced three balls, failed to get off the mark. Four balls into the match, he was caught by Craig Kieswetter. Finn broke the one-run stand.

Uthappa, who faced three balls, scored a run. Four balls later, he was caught by Kieswetter. Tim Bresnan broke the run-a-ball stand.

Virat Kohli, whose 16-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 15. Twenty-four balls later, he was caught by Alex Hales. Bresnan broke the 21-run stand.

India scored 50 off 7.4 overs (46 balls). England had conceded an extra at that point.

Tiwary, who faced 17 balls, scored 15. Thirty-two balls later, Samit Patel broke the 40-run stand.

Suresh Raina, whose 29-ball innings included four boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored 39. Seven balls later, he was caught by Bairstow. Finn broke the eight-run stand.

The sixth-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Jadeja, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. The next ball, he was dismissed by Finn.

Yusuf Pathan, whose 12-ball innings included a six, scored 10. Twenty-seven balls later, he was caught by Ravi Bopara, who broke the 17-run stand.

The eighth-wicket pair didn’t get off the (Ku)mark. Praveen, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls later, he was dismissed by Bopara.

India scored 100 off 18.2 overs (110 balls). England had conceded a couple of extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

The (Dho)ninth-wicket pair put on 29. The man from Ranchi, whose 26-ball innings included a six, scored 21. Nineteen balls after Kumar’s dismissal, Jade Dernbach ran him out.

Ravichandran Ashwin, whose 11-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 17. He was unbeaten.

India scored 120 for the loss of nine wickets off 20 overs. Graeme Swann, England’s skipper, bowled a couple of overs, conceded 23. He was wicketless, as was Dernbach, who bowled four overs, conceding 26.

Patel bowled three overs, conceding 13. He picked up a wicket. Bopara bowled three overs, including a maiden. He conceded 16, picking up two scalps. Bresnan bowled four overs, including a maiden. He conceded 19, picking up two scalps. Finn bowled four overs, conceding 22. He picked up three scalps.

The first Powerplay of England’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth Powerplay. They scored 28, and lost a wicket.

Kieswetter, whose 10-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored a dozen. Twenty balls into the chase, he was caught by Tiwary. Jadeja broke the 21-run stand.

Hales, who faced 19 balls, scored 11. Twenty-two balls later, he was caught by Rahane. Pathan broke the 19-run stand.

England scored 50 off 8.3 overs (51 balls). India had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point.

The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 36 balls. While the contribution of Kevin Pietersen, the player of the match, to the partnership was 35, Samit’s contribution to it was 18. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was a couple.

England scored 100 off 14.3 overs (87 balls). India had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point.

Samit, whose 25-ball innings included a boundary and a six, eventually scored 21. Forty-six balls later, he was caught by Tiwary. Kohli broke the 60-run partnership.

Pietersen’s half-century – which included five boundaries and three sixes – came off 34 balls. He eventually faced 39 balls, scored 53. Seven balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Raina, who broke the six-run stand.

Bopara, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary, scored 14. He was unbeaten, as Bairstow, who faced three balls, scoring a couple.

India eventually conceded eight extras. England, who scored 121 for the loss of four wickets off 18.4 overs, won by half-a-dozen wickets with eight balls to spare.

Praveen, who bowled a wicketless over, conceded 13. Vinay Kumar, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded 19. Ashwin, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded 20.

Raina, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded nine. He picked up a wicket. Kohli, who bowled 2.4 overs, conceded 13. He picked up a wicket. Pathan, who bowled three overs, conceded 34. He picked up a wicket. Jadeja bowled four overs, including a maiden. He conceded nine, picking up a wicket.

England won the one-off match.