India Beat England in 4th 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 4th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, India on 23^rd 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 4th ONE DAY international match: Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan (c), Luke Wright, A Cook, Kevin P, Jos Buttler (wk), Michael Lumb, Jade Dernbach, I Bell, Joe R, Alex Hales

And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 4th 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 257 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of A Cook who made 76 runs in 106 balls with 13 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls and Kevin P who made 76 runs in 93 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 258 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 258 runs in 47.3 over’s at the loss of 5 wicket and won the game by 5 wickets in hand with top contributions from S Raina who made 89 runs in 79 balls with 9 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 113 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 5 wickets in hand and series stands at 3-1 in favor of India with 3 more games to play.

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