India Vs England T20I, Oct 2011
One-off India vs England Twenty20 International at Calcutta
Consolation win for England in the T20I match
Oct 29, 2011
After winning the toss and electing to bat, the Indian team lost Rahane and Uthappa in the first two overs. Virat Kohli followed soon in the 5th over when India's score was only 26. Raina was the top-scorer for the Indian side with 39 runs and took the total up to 74/5. Bopara took 2 more wickets in the 17th over and India plummeted to 91/8. Thanks to MS Dhoni (21) and Ashwin (17*), India were able to get their total into the triple digits with 120/9 in 20 ov. For England, Finn (4-0-22-3) and Bopara (3-1-16-2) were the key bowlers.
England cruised through their innings without any major problems and comfortably found their target 121/4 in 18.4 ov. Player of the Match Pietersen's (53) half century was the highlight of the England innings. Kohli, Raina, Jadeja and Pathan took one wicket each for India.
After losing the ODI series to India 5-0, England were able to find some consolation with this T20 win and remain the No.1 ranked T20 team in the world.
England 121/4 (Pietersen 53, Patel 21) beat India 120/9 (Raina 39, Dhoni 21, Ashwin 17*, Finn 3-22, Bopara 2-16, Bresnan 2-19) by 6 wickets
Uthappa likely to play in T20I match
Oct 29, 2011
Karnataka batsman Robin Uthappa who hit three back to back half-centuries in domestic Twenty20 tournament for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and a 132 for India Green in the Challengers, Mumbai opener Ajinkya Rahane, and Yusuf Pathan might be in the Indian team for the Twenty20 International against England at Kolkata. Meanwhile, Gautam Gambhir will miss out because of his marriage. Varun Aaron, touted as India's fastest, will also be in the team, on the slow-looking Eden track. Teams (from):India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Manoj Tiwary, Varun Aaron, Robin Uthappa, Rahul Sharma, S Arvind.
England: Graeme Swann (Captain), Craig Kieswetter (wicketkeeper), Alex Hales, Kevin Pietersen, Ravi Bopara, Jonathan Bairstow, Samit Patel, Tim Bresnan, Scott Borthwick, Stuart Meaker, Steven Finn, Graham Onions, Jos Buttler.
Match starts at 14:30 GMT | 20:00 IST | 10:30 EDT
Reigning World Twenty20 champions England #1 T20 side, India 5th
Oct 28, 2011
Reigning World Twenty20 champions England are the #1 ranked side in the Twenty20 International team rankings released by ICC in Dubai on Oct 24th. England, which is also the top ranked Test side, has 127 points and leads second-placed Sri Lanka by just one ratings point. Only six ratings points separate the next four sides with New Zealand occupying 3rd position on 117, followed by South Africa, inuagural Twenty20 winner in 2007 India, and Australia. The 2009 champions Pakistan are seventh in the list.
Airtel India Vs England ODI Series, Oct 2011
India vs England fifth ODI at Calcutta
India complete series whitewash over England [IND-ENG:5-0 (5/5)]
Oct 25, 2011
England squandered a first wicket stand of 129 to lose all ten of their wickets for 47 runs in exactly 100 balls on their way to a humiliating second 5-0 whitewash in consecutive ODI tours of India. Chasing 272, openers Craig Kieswetter (63) and Alastair Cook (60) made a flying start with a 129-run stand, but were all out for 176 with 13 overs left with spinner Ravindra Jadeja taking 4-33.Dhoni hit his 43rd half century and remained not out on 75 from 69 balls, with 3 fours and 4 sixes to take India to 271 for 8. With this innings, Dhoni has added 340 ODI runs in six innings since England last dismissed him at The Oval in September. He faced 285 balls, hitting 28 fours and 11 sixes for his 340. India scored 39 runs in the final two overs. England took the first three Indian wickets with the score on 80. India made one change, with Right-hand batsman Manoj Tiwary replacing Parthiv Patel. Ravindra Jadeja was the Man of the Match for his 21 from 27 balls and 4-33. MS Dhoni was the Man of the Series for his 212 runs without losing his wicket in this series, which included two 50s. The series ended with Ian Bell getting involved in a fracas with Ravindra Jadeja as the teams shook hands, and Jade Dernbach, who was not playing in the game, pushing Jadeja. An ashen-faced Cook was booed at the end-of-match ceremony by the Kolkota crowd. India 271/8 in 50 ov (Dhoni 75*, Rahane 42, Gambhir 38) beat England 176 (Jadeja 4-33, Kieswetter 63) by 95 runs
Eden Gardens ready for the 5th ODI
Oct 25, 2011
High on confidence, India will push for a 5-0 clean sweep when they meet England in the fifth and final cricket one-dayer at the Eden Gardens where the visitors have won just one of their last 17 matches. England's behaviour on this trip has been in the spotlight, with Steven Finn's shouting in the face of Raina after bowling him for a sparkling 62-ball 80 in Mumbai only making matters worse. A £250 fine was imposed on England’s fast bowler Tim Bresnan for breach of the ICC code of conduct after snatching his cap from on-field umpire Sudhir Asnani during the third game at Mohali. The absence of the likes of Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and especially Sachin Tendulkar - missing through injury - is cited as the reason for low attendance figures in the four matches played so far. The Gardens' with a standing capacity of 130,000 will host the T20I on Oct 29th, after the 5th and final ODI today.
Teams (from):India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, R Ashwin, R Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Manoj Tiwary, Manoj Tiwary, S Arvind.
England: Alastair Cook (Captain), Craig Kieswetter, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ravi Bopara, Jonny Bairstow, Samit Patel, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Steve Finn, Jade Dernbach, Ian Bell, Scott Borthwick, Stuart Meaker, Alex Hales, Jos Buttler.
Match starts at 09:00 GMT, 14:30 Local
India vs England fourth ODI at Mumbai
Six wicket win for India with 59 balls to spare [IND-ENG:4-0 (4/5)]
Oct 23, 2011
Fast bowler Varun Aaron picked up three wickets on his debut at the Wankhede stadium as India stayed on course to whitewash England in the ODI series by cruising to a six-wicket victory in the fourth match. Chasing a modest 221 to win, the home team raced home with a whopping 59 balls to spare, helped by fluent half-centuries from Suresh Raina (80) and Virat Kohli (86 not out). They combined well to build a solid partnership of 131 runs for the fourth wicket.Earlier, England who won the toss, were bowled out for 220 in 46.1 overs after losing five wickets for 79 in 20 overs of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. Tim Bresnan top-scored with 45.
India 223/4 in 40.1 ov (Raina 82, Kohli 86*) beat England 220 (Bresnan 45, Pietersen 41, Aaron 3-24, Ashwin 3-38) by 6 wickets
India vs England 4th ODI preview
Oct 22, 2011
India, 3-0 ahead on the eve of Sunday's penultimate match at the Wankhede, will be playing their first in Mumbai since the historic night in April, when they lifted the World Cup. Having clinched the series already, India will try to push on to secure a whitewash that will further humiliate the tourists.Match starts at 09:00 GMT, 14:30 Local
India vs England third ODI at Mohali
India seal series with 5 wicket win [IND-ENG:3-0 (3/5)]
Oct 20, 2011
India won the third one-day international in Mohali, and took an unassailable 3-0 lead against England in the five-match one-day series. India's Ajinkya Rahane struck 91 and Gautam Gambhir scored 58 - his sixth fifty against England and 27th in ODIs. MS Dhoni's 35 not out sealed the win. At the completion of this innings, Dhoni has scored 6407 in 194 matches, including 7 hundreds and 42 fifties at an average of 50.44. India's 300/5 was the highest successful chase at the PCA Stadium in Mohali.
Earler, England won the toss and decided to bat first, with both sides unchanged once more. They made 298/4 in 50 overs with the help of Jonathan Trott's 98 not out. Kevin Pietersen contributed 64 and Samit Patel 70 not out.
India 300/5 in 49.2 ov (Rahane 91, Gambhir 58) beat England 298/4 in 50.0 ov (Jonathan Trott 98*, Samit Patel 70*)
Do-or-die game for England
Oct 19, 2011
Whitewashed in all formats of the game in England earlier this summer, India - still missing more than half the victorious World Cup squad - turned around things and defeated the visitors with consummate ease in the first two ODIs in Hyderabad (by 126 runs) and Delhi (by eight wickets) in the series billed as the 'Payback series'. Down 0-2 with three to play, England have to win at the PCA stadium on Thursday if they entertain any hopes of an unimaginable series triumph. Teams (from):India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Parthiv Patel, Ajinkya Rahane, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Praveen Kumar, R Ashwin, R Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Manoj Tiwary, Manoj Tiwary, S Arvind.
England: Alastair Cook (Captain), Craig Kieswetter, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ravi Bopara, Jonny Bairstow, Samit Patel, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Steve Finn, Jade Dernbach, Ian Bell, Scott Borthwick, Stuart Meaker, Alex Hales, Jos Buttler.
Match starts at 09:00 GMT, 14:30 Local
India vs England second ODI at Delhi
Hefty eight-wicket win for India [IND-ENG:2-0 (2/5)]
Oct 17, 2011
India scored a massive 8 wicket win over England with 80 balls to spare at Kotla, in the second ODI. On their home ground, the left-right combination of Virat Kohli and Gambhir put on an unbroken 209 from 179 balls - a new Indian record for the third wicket - to take India to victory in the 37th over. 22 year old Kohli smashed his seventh one day international hundred, and his second against England in three matches, while Gambhir scored 84. Kohli's was the first ton by an Indian at the Ferozeshah Kotla since Tendulkar hit a century in 1996.When England last came to India for one-dayers three years ago they lost 5-0, the tour before that it was 6-1. The 3rd ODI is on Thursday, October 20.India 238/2 in 36.4 ov (Kohli 112*, Gambhir 84*) beat England 237 (Pietersen 46, SR Patel 42, R Vinay Kumar 4-30) by 8 wickets
300-run pitch waiting at Kotla
Oct 16, 2011
The Ferozeshah Kotla pitch which had been banned from hosting international games in the lead-up to the World Cup following the abandoned India-Sri Lanka ODI in Dec 2009, will be in focus when India take on England in the second ODI in Delhi. BCCI's grounds and pitches committee chairman Venkat Sundaram told Times of India: "The centre strip has been prepared for the second ODI and as is the norm for most Indian wickets, it will slow down slightly as the match progresses. But I think it's a 300-run wicket and there shouldn't be any complaints."
India is still without the presence of Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan. The spin duo of R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, who scalped three wickets apiece in Hyderabad, will again have a big role to play at the Kotla where the track was expected to assist the slow bowlers. Match begins at 2.30 pm IST.
India vs England first ODI at Hyderabad
India beat England by 126 runs [IND-ENG:1-0 (1/5)]
Oct 14, 2011
MS Dhoni's unbeaten 87 and Suresh Raina's 61 helped India to post a daunting total of 300/7 in the first ODI at Hyderabad. They were 126/4 after 30 overs, after a watchful start in the absence of Sachin and Sehwag.Captain Alastair Cook scored 60 but his dismissal sparked a middle-order collapse as England slid from 111-2 to 174 all out. Ravichandran Ashwin took 3 wickets for 35 while Ravindra Jadeja bagged 3 for 34.The Television coverage of the first ODI of the series was disrupted by a picture blackout caused by a breakdown in negotiations between production company Nimbus and the Board of Control for Cricket in India and the Indian government. The issue was resolved four overs into the match.
India 300 for 7 (Dhoni 87*, Raina 61) bt England 174 (Cook 60)
India vs England in India
England XI drub Hyderabad by 253 runs
Oct 11, 2011
England won for the second time in the space of three days thanks to a brilliant century by Jonathan Bairstow and a dream spell by leg-spinner Scott Borthwick as the two helped it drub Hyderabad by 253 runs in a day-and-night, warm-up game at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here on Tuesday night.
England 367/4 in 50 overs (Alastair Cook 85, Craig Kieswetter 71, Jonathan Trott 74, Jonathan Bairstow 104 not out, Mehdi Hassan three for 63) beat Hyderabad 114 in 35.3 overs (P. Akshath Reddy 37, Scott Borthwick five for 31, Stuart Meaker three for 29)
England XI beat Hyderabad XI by 56 runs in the first warm up match before the series
Oct 8, 2011
The England team arrived in India on Oct 4 and played their first warm up match today against Hyderabad XI. Even though Hyderabad was able to restrict England's score to 219 (47.3 ov), the visitors were still able to pull off a victory, thanks to Finn who took 4 wickets while conceding only 28 runs. The Hyderabad XI was all out for 165 (36.5 ov).
Harbhajan dropped, Tendulkar, Sehwag ruled out for England ODIs
Sep 29, 2011
The Indian team for the first two ODIs vs England will include off-spinner R Ashwin, in place of Harbhajan Singh, who will have leg-spinner Rahul Sharma for company. Sachin, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Sehwag were not included due to injury in the first series at home after winning the World Cup in April. Also missing from the world cup squad are Ashish Nehra, Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla who were also ignored.
After the World Cup victory, India won the first three ODIs on the West Indies tour but lost the two dead rubbers, before going down 0-3 to England in the ODI series in England, though they did manage a tie in the fourth game of that series.
India squad for first two England ODIs: MS Dhoni (captain and wicket-keeper), Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Varun Aaron, R Ashwin, Vinay Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Rahul Sharma, S Aravind, Manoj Tiwary, Praveen Kumar
England in India, ODI schedule
Oct 14 to Oct 29 2011
| Date and Time | Match | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Fri Oct 14 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local | 05:00 EDT | 1st ODI England vs India | Hyderabad |
| Mon Oct 17 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local | 05:00 EDT | 2nd ODI England vs India | Delhi |
| Thu Oct 20 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local | 05:00 EDT | 3rd ODI England vs India | Mohali |
| Sun Oct 23 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local | 05:00 EDT | 4th ODI England vs India | Mumbai |
| Tue Oct 25 09:00 GMT | 14:30 Local | 05:00 EDT | 5th ODI England vs India | Kolkata |
| Sat Oct 29 14:30 GMT | 20:00 Local | 10:30 EDT | Only T20I England vs India | Kolkata |