The second ODI between England and India saw the visitors showed why they are the most dangerous limited-overs side in the world today, as they registered a brilliant six-wicket win chasing 337 runs for the victory.
Jos Buttler won the toss and chose to field first. England struck early, removing Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma in quick succession. But then Virat Kohli (66) and KL Rahul (108) added 121 runs for the third wicket. Kohli fell to Adil Rashid for the second time in the series, which brought in Rishabh Pant, who had replaced the injured Shreyas Iyer in the playing XI.
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Rishabh Pant then slammed 77 runs in 40 balls with 7 sixes and 4 fours, adding 113 runs in just 80 balls with KL Rahul, who completed his ton in 108 balls and ended up hitting 7 fours and 2 sixes in his knock.
India had a good finish to their innings with Hardik Pandya making 35 in 16 balls with 4 sixes and one four, as they finished on 336/6.
Reece Topley and Tom Curran with two wickets each were the picks of bowlers from the England side.
In reply, Jason Roy (55) and Jonny Bairstow added 110 runs for the first wicket before Roy fell to a run out thanks to a brilliant effort from Rohit Sharma.
Then Ben Stokes came in and bludgeoned 10 sixes and 4 fours in a 52-ball 99 runs knock, and added 175 runs in just 117 balls to take the game away from India. Jonny Bairstow made his 11th ODI ton and ended up with 124 with 7 sixes and 11 fours to his name.
Indian spinners were the biggest culprits with Kuldeep Yadav giving 84 runs in his 10 overs and Krunal Pandya giving 72 runs in his 6 overs. Prasidh Krishna picked 2/58 as England completed the chase in 43.3 overs losing just 4 wickets and won the match by 6 wickets.
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The cricket fraternity was amazed at the way England went about their chase and hammered the Indian bowling attack. They lauded the knocks of Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow whole-heartedly on Twitter.
Here are the tweets:
