Rohit Sharma, who won the toss and correctly invited England to bat in the first match, made the wrong choice of fielding this time, the balls rose on the pitch and there was a bit of swing. It must be admitted that the Indian team has not been able to play the fast bowler. If it is a left-arm fast bowler, it will not be played since that time, from Pakistan’s Hasim Hafeez to now Dapley, who have caught India and created it, that is the dark side of the batting history of Indian cricket.
England openers were stumped by Shami and Bumrah, Shikhar Dhawan took a catch at slip, Jason Roy finally got off Shami and hit a big six over midwicket, and Bairstow slowly dutched the two for 41 in 9 overs. Jason Roy Tadaval was the first wicket with 23 runs when Hardik Pandya (2/28) was caught in the deep with a chip shot.
Yajuvendra Chahal (4/47) bowled Bairstow with his incredible change of pace while Jonny Bairstow bowled a dangerous 38. The sweep was played and the ball was not caught. Joe Root hit 11 runs off 21 balls and went for a sweep to become LP to Chehal. Ben Stokes bowled a full over as a reverse sweep to upset Sehal, hitting 2 fours in 4 reverse sweeps for 21 before Sehal again went off balance and went down as an lb.
The next danger man Jos Buttler was bowled by a brilliant inswinger from Shami (1/48) at the pace, but this ball was a ball in the slot, a boundary ball, but Buttler was bowled anyway. Liam Livingston was tested with a short-pitched ball and was badly bowled. He also took a hit on the helmet with one ball. But England were 148/6 to get out at deep square leg as he hit the short pitched ball for 33 runs.
Prasith Krishna dropped the catch when David Willey was within 15 runs of 246 from it. Then Hardik Pandya also missed a tough chance for Ville on 24 runs. Wille 41 and Moeen Ali 47 put on 62 runs for the 7th wicket, bought by Prasith Krishna. Jasprit Bumrah’s last overs also ended in a deadlock. He took 2/49 to finish the innings with 246 runs.
Dhawan, Rohit Sharma in second half; Indian team lost to Dapley
India’s first bat runs in the first 5 overs came in the 5th over and before that came the leg bye, Rohit Sharma was brilliant today and danced to the balls yesterday. Shikhar Dhawan, who has played very poor bowling including IPL for a long time and suddenly what does a goat do with swing balls, unfortunately he also danced.
Tapley exploited the weakness of the Indian team well. Shikhar Dhawan empties to leg-edge to LP Rohit for a duck. Rishabh Punt was also ducked out after taking a full catch from Brayden Kars at straight mid-on. Virat Kohli hit 2 straight fours to take his total to 16 runs with 3 boundaries and his bat edge was ‘Have you forgotten what I am?’ Goli Tapley edges the ball and is caught by Buttler, India 31/4.
Suryakumar Yadav (31) and Hardik Pandya (27) held out for a while. Dapley comes back and Suryakumar takes the ball with the bat and leaves it on the stumps. Hardik was dismissed by Moeen Ali. Jadeja (29) and Shami (23) made the fans happy by hitting the sixth shots.
Tapley and Livingston complete the ceremony. Looking at yesterday’s match, we can’t help but think that if England had scored 150 runs in the first one-day match and had bowled properly, that is, if the bowlers had not punched the bowlers near their feet because of the short pitch, then maybe they would have seen a hand in the Indian team in that match as well. Dapley 6 for 24, man of the match. Life and death final on Sunday.
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