England batting Against Indian Spinners a Win Win Situation for India

England Cricket team has always been a very good competitor but they were not able to play well in Indian conditions ever be it Test match of One day internationals and Now even the t 20 matches as well. England visited India in 2006 to play a test series and 7 matches One day international series. 1st of the ODI match was played on Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi, India on 28^th March,2006.

England won the toss and opted to bowl first; So India will bat first in this first ODI match.

Indian team and 11 looks like: Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid (c), Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina,RP Singh, S Sreesanth

And England team and 11 looks like this: Andrew Flintoff (c), James Anderson, Paul Collingwood, Kabir Ali, Geraint Jones (wk), Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Liam Plunkett, Ian Blackwell,Owais Shah, Matt Prior

India started poorly and lost their both openers Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag cheaply on  the team score of 56 runs in 9.4 over’s and then India lost wickets at regular intervals and eventually were bowled out for 203 runs in 46.4 over’s and couldn’t even played the full allotted 50 over’s.

England needs to get 204 runs in 50 over’s to go 1-0 up in the 7 match ODI series but this was not easy as the pitch is very spin friendly and Indian spinners were very lethal at that time.

England started very poorly and lost both their openers Andrew Strauss and Mat.Prior cheaply on the team score of 4 runs in the first over on the bowling of very impressive irfan Pathan. After that England kept loosing wickets and were then bowled out for only 164 runs in 38.1 over’s and As already looking it was very tough for England batsmen to score against the Indian spinners, with Harbhajan Singh picking the 5 wickets haul, he was the Man of the match and India won this match by 39 runs and go 1-0 up in the series with 6 more games to play.