England Beat India in 3rd 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 Edgbaston, Birmingham, England on 27th Aug, 2007.

In the 3rd 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 3rd ODI: Sachin Tendulkar, R Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Yuvraj Singh, Z 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 3rd ODI match: Andrew Flintoff, James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, Monty P, Stuart Broad, Ravi B, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Matt Prior (wk).

England batted well and was able to score total of 281 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with contributions of Ian bell who made 79 runs in 89 balls with 2 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls, Skipper Paul C who made 44 runs in 53 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls and A cook who made 40 runs with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 282 runs in 50 allotted over’s to win this match.

India started poorly and was down by 2 wickets at only score of 36 runs in 11 over’s in the form of Sachin T and Dinesh K. After that India kept loosing wickets at regular intervals and were eventually bowled out for only 239 runs in 48.1 over’s and contributions by Saurav G who made 72 runs in 104 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 69 runs in 100 balls and Skipper Rahul D made 56 runs in 61 balls.

England won the match by 42 runs and Ian bell was the Man of the match for his great batting.

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