India (Shar)made four changes to their playing eleven – Rohit, Yuvraj Singh, Amit Mishra and Bhuvneshwar Kumar made way for Shikhar Dhawan, a couple of Twenty20 International debutants (Ambati Rayudu and Karn Sharma) and Mohammed Shami.
England made
(Ra)VI changes to their playing (Micha)eleven – Lumb, Luke Wright, Samit Patel,
Tim Bresnan, Stuart Meaker and Jade Dernbach made way for Twenty20 International
debutant Jason Roy, Moeen Ali, Bopara, Chris Woakes, Steven Finn and Harry
Gurney.
On winning
the toss, Eoin Morgan, England’s skipper and the player of the match, chose to
bat.
The
Powerplay of England’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between
the first and the sixth Powerplay. They scored 46, and lost a couple of
wickets.
Roy, whose
10-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Seventeen balls into the
match, he was caught by Ajinkya Rahane. Shami broke the 26-run stand.
Ali, who
faced a couple of balls, failed to get off the (Shar)mark. A couple of balls
later, he was caught by Rahane. Mohit broke the one-run stand.
England
scored 50 off 6.5 overs (41 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at
that point.
Alex Hales,
whose 25-ball innings included three boundaries and as many sixes, scored 40.
Forty balls after Ali’s dismissal, he was caught by Rahane. Ravindra Jadeja
broke the 48-run stand.
Joe Root,
whose 29-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 26. Seventeen balls later,
he was caught by Rayudu. Karn broke the 10-run stand.
England
scored 100 off 15.1 overs (92 balls). India had conceded four extras at that
point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.
Morgan’s
half-century – which included a boundary and five sixes – came off 26 balls.
Jos
Buttler, who faced 15 balls, scored 10. Thirty-three balls later, he was caught
by Rayudu. Shami broke the 45-run stand.
England
scored 150 off 18.4 overs (113 balls).
Morgan,
whose 31-ball innings included three boundaries and seven sixes, eventually scored
71. Thirteen balls after Buttler’s dismissal, he was caught by Rahane. Shami broke
the 36-run stand.
Bopara,
whose nine-ball innings included three boundaries and a six, scored 21. He was unbeaten.
The
seventh-wicket pair put on 14. Woakes didn’t face a ball. Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
India’s skipper, ran him out.
England
scored 180 for the loss of seven wickets off 20 overs.
Each of the
five bowlers bowled four overs apiece. Ravichandran Ashwin, who was wicketless
overs, conceded 27. Mohit, Jadeja and Karn picked up a wicket apiece. They
conceded 39, 35 and 28, respectively. Shami, who conceded 38, picked up three
scalps.
The
Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between
the first and the sixth Powerplay. They scored 53, and lost a wicket.
Rahane,
whose four-ball innings included a six, scored eight. Eight balls into the
chase, Ali broke the 10-run stand.
India scored
50 off half-a-dozen overs (36 balls). England had conceded a couple of extras
at that point.
The
second-wicket pair put on 50 off 31 balls. While Dhawan’s contribution to the
partnership was 21, Virat Kohli’s contribution to it was 28. Extras’ contribution
to the partnership was a run.
Dhawan,
whose 28-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and as many sixes,
eventually scored 33. Forty-nine balls after Rahane’s dismissal, Woakes broke
the 79-run partnership.
India scored
100 off 11.4 overs (70 balls). England had conceded four extras at that point.
Kohli’s
half-century – which included half-a-dozen boundaries and a six – came off 34
balls. He eventually scored 66 off 41 balls, which included nine boundaries, in
addition to the six. Twenty-five balls after Dhawan’s dismissal, he was caught
by Hales. Finn broke the 42-run stand.
Suresh Raina,
whose 20-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 25. Fifteen balls
later, Gurney broke the 14-run stand.
India scored
150 off 17.1 overs (103 balls). England had conceded five extras at that point.
Mahendra
Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, scored 27 off 18 balls, which included a couple
of boundaries and a six. He was unbeaten.
The
fifth-wicket pair put on eight. Jadeja, whose four-ball innings included a boundary,
had no reason to be in seventh heaven – five balls later, Bopara and Finn ran
him out.
Rayudu, who
faced five balls, scored three. He was unbeaten.
England
eventually conceded eight extras. India, who scored 177 for the loss of five
wickets off 20 overs, lost by three runs.
Bopara, who
bowled an over, conceded 14. He was wicketless, as was James Tredwell, who
bowled four overs, conceding 28. Ali, who bowled three overs, conceded 31. He
picked up a wicket, as did Woakes, Gurney and Finn, who bowled four overs
apiece. They conceded 43, 29, and 28, respectively.
England won
the one-off match.
