India Beat England in 3rd 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 3rd ONE DAY international match was to be played on JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi, India on 19th Jan 2013. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

India won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how England team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd ONE DAY international match: Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan (c), Luke Wright, A Cook, Samit Patel, Jos Buttler (wk), Michael Lumb, Jade Dernbach, I Bell, Joe R, Alex Hales

And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd 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 did not batted well and was able to post total of only 155 runs in 42.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of Joe R who made 39 runs in 57 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls and Tim Bresnan who made 25 runs in 37 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 156 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 156 runs in 28.1 over’s at the loss of 3 wicket and won the game by 7 wickets in hand with top contributions from V Kohli who made 77 runs in 79 balls with 9 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 7 wickets in hand and series stands at 2-1 in favor of India with 4 more games to play.

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