England Beat India in 1st ODI of series,2013

England was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in India in 2013. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 4. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot, India on 11th Jan 2013. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

England won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how England team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan (c), Luke Wright, A Cook, Samit Patel, Jos Buttler (wk), Michael Lumb, Jade Dernbach, I Bell, Danny Briggs, Alex Hales

And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Piyush Chawla, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ashok Dinda, Ravichandran Ashwin, Parvinder Awana,

England batted well and was able to post total of 325 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of I bell who made 85 runs in 96 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and A Cook who made 75 runs in 83 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 90 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 326 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well but was unable to chase the target of 326 runs and was only able to make 316 in 50 over’s at the loss of 9 wicket and lost the game by 9 runs with top contributions from Y Singh who made 61 runs in 54 balls with 8 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 9 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of England with 6 more games to play.

Pic owned by Google.