#IndvsEng: Yesterday once more
Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni turned the clock back with sublime centuries as India recovered handsomely from 25 for three to smash 381 for six in the second One-day International against England on January 19.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-01-19 17:30 GMT
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With India in trouble at 25 for three, Yuvraj (150 off 127 balls) and Dhoni (134 off 122) joined hands to forge a 256-run partnership to put their team in a position of strength from a precarious one. In reply, England stayed on course for a while before managing 366 for eight wickets in their 50 overs. Captain Eoin Morgan led from the front but his 102-run knock off 81 balls (six fours, five sixes) went in vain as he was run-out with 28 runs remaining to draw curtains on a valiant chase.
Morgan forged a sixth-wicket partnership of 93 in 12.1 overs with Moeen Ali (55 in 43 balls) and 50 runs with Liam Plunkett in 25 balls and tried to revive hopes but once Ali was castled by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and after Morgan’s run-out, England fell agonisingly short. Though they lost Alex Hales early, England recouped through a second-wicket stand of 100 runs between Joe Root (54 off 55 balls) and Jason Roy (82 off 73 balls).
At that stage, they were ahead of India in both runrate and wickets lost. But Ravichandran Ashwin introduced quite late in the innings in the 20th over struck in his first over forcing Root to go for a slog sweep which ended in the hands of captain Kohli. That was the beginning of the England slump. Jadeja bowled his full quota of 10 overs in one spell for 45 runs and the wicket of Roy who looked dangerous. Roy looked to chop a ball from the stumps towards third man and missed the line.
Ashwin removed Ben Stokes in the 28th over to reduce England to 173 for four. Ashwin took one more (Buttler) in the 32nd over and it was the end of the English challenge. Earlier, the two veterans used their years of experience to turn the tide for India after England opted to field at a packed Barabati Stadium.
Yuvraj was on fire ball one and hammered 21 fours and three sixes in his career-best knock in ODIs. The southpaw, brought back into the national team, could not have silenced his detractors in a better way as got to his 14th ODI hundred, which was his first since the 2011 World Cup.
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