England Beaten by India in 5th 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 Headingley, Leeds, England on 2nd Sep, 2007.

In the 5th one Day International match England won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means India will bat first.

This is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this 5th  ODI: Sachin Tendulkar, R Dravid (c), S Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Z Khan, D Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th  ODI match: Andrew Flintoff, James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin P, Alastair Cook, Monty P, Stuart Broad, Ravi B, D Mascarenhas, Matt Prior (wk).

India started well and with the contributions of Y Singh who made 72 runs in 57 balls with 10 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 126 runs in 100 balls, Sachin T who made 71 runs in 59 balls with 12 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls and Saurav G who made 59 runs in 79 balls with 7 4 ‘s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls were able to score 324 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of only 6 wickets.

England was needed to score 325 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

England started well and were on winning ways but they lost their way in the middle and end over’s of the game and was only able to lost this game by 38 runs and major contributions by Skipper Paul C who made 91 runs in 71 balls with 3 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 128 runs in 100 balls and Wicket Keeper mat prior made 46 runs in 45 balls.

India won the game by 38 runs and Saurav G was the man of the match for his great batting display.

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