England Beat India in 7th ODI in 2007

India was scheduled to play a 7 match One Day International series in England in 2007. The first match of the series was played on Lord’s, London, London, England on 8th Sep, 2007.

In the 7th and final one Day International match India won the toss and opts to bat first and this means England will bowl first.

This is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this 7th and Final ODI: Sachin Tendulkar, R Dravid (c), S Ganguly, Y Singh, Z Khan, D Karthik, Ajit A, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam G, RP Singh, P Chawla

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 7th and Final ODI match: Andrew F, James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin P, Alastair Cook, Monty P, Stuart Broad, Ravi B, D Mascarenhas, M Prior (wk).

India started poorly and was 4 wickets down for only 59 runs in 16 over’s if the game in the form of Schin T, Saurav G, Gautam G and Rahul D. And kept losing wickets at regular intervals to get bolwed out for only 187 runs in 47.3 over’s and with the contributions of Indian Wicket Keeper batsman M S Dhoni who made 50 runs in 72 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 69 runs in 100 balls and Sachin T made 30 runs in 46 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls.

England was needed to score 188 runs in allotted 50 over’s to win this match and series.

England batted superbly well and was able to score this target in only 36.2 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets with the contributions of Kevin P who made 71 runs in 96 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls and Paul C made 64 runs in 73 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 88 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 7 wickets and series as well.

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