England Beat India in 4th 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 Old Trafford, Manchester, England on 30th Aug, 2007.

In the 4th one Day International match India won the toss and opts to bat first and this means England will bowl first.

This is how Indian team and 11 was looking like in this 4th ODI: Sachin Tendulkar, R Dravid (c), S 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 4th ODI match: Andrew Flintoff, James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Alastair Cook, Monty P, Stuart Broad, Ravi B, D Mascarenhas, Matt Prior (wk).

 India started poorly and was 3 wickets down for only 32 runs in 12 over’s in the form of Rahul D, Saurav G and Dinesh k and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in this 4^th One day International match and was bowled out for only 212 runs in 49.4 over’s and with contributions of Y Singh who made 71 runs in 104 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls and Sachin T who made 55 runs in 86 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls.

England was needed to score 213 runs in allotted 50 over’s to win this 4^th One Day International match.

England batted superbly and with the contribution of Skipper Paul C who made 47 runs in 55 balls with 7 ‘s and 1 six at the strike rate of 85 runs in 100 balls and S broad who made 45 runs in 73 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 61 runs in 100 balls were able to chase the target in 48 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets.

England won the match by 3 wickets and S broad was the Man of the match.

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