England Beat India in 1st 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 The Rose Bowl, Southampton, England on 21st Aug, 2007.

In the 1st one Day International match India won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means England will bat first.

This is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st ODI: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Dinesh Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla

And England team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st ODI match: Andrew Flintoff, James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, Monty Panesar, Stuart Broad, Ravi Bopara, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Matt Prior (wk)

England batted very well and was able to post total of 288 runs in 50 over’s allotted at the loss of only 2 wickets and with the contributions of Ian bell who made 126 runs in 118 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 107 runs in 100 balls, A cook made 102 runs in 126 balls with 8 4’s and strike rate of 81 runs in 100 balls and K pieterson made 33 runs in 25 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 132 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 289 runs in allotted 50 over’s to win this match.

India started poorly and was 3 wickets down at only 34 runs in 11 over’s in the form of Saurav G, G Gambhir and Sachin t and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the match and was eventually bowled out for only 184 runs in 50 over’s and with contributions of Skipper Rahul D who made 46 runs in 72 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls and Dinesh K who made 44 runs in 45 balls with 4 4’s.

England won the match by 104 runs and Ian Bell was the man of the match.

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