London, Sept 9: A game that started embarrassingly for India – they were four for 25 in the 11th over – ended in disappointment as hosts England held their nerve to eke out a three-wicket win. A lower-order resurrection somewhat redeemed the Indian innings, the final score of 234 setting the stage for a real fight. But in the end, a late blitz in England’s chase by Ravi Bopara (40 off 41) denied the struggling visitors their first win of the tour despite R Ashwin’s three wickets. Take a look at the numbers that matter from the first close game of the tour.
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This was James Anderson’s 150th ODI. He became only the fourth England player after Paul Collingwood (197), Alec Stewart (170) and Darren Gough (159) to do so.
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India lost their first four wickets with only 25 runs on the board – their worst start against England. They were 34 for four at Rose Bowl in 2007.
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Rahul Dravid was run-out for the 40th time in his ODI career. He thus equalled Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq’s tally of run-outs. Now only Marvan Atapattu (41) has been dismissed on more occasions in this fashion than Dravid.
• The 112-run stand between MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja is India’s third best for this wicket against England. The 121-run stand between Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif at Lord’s in 2002 remains the best.
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The Dhoni-Jadeja stand is only the fifth century stand for the sixth wicket for India against England in ODIs. Dhoni features in three of them.
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The 59-run stand between R Ashwin and Jadeja is the highest seventh-wicket stand for India against England. The previous best was 52 between Brijesh Patel and Abid Ali at Leeds in 1974.
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Jadeja’s 78 is his highest ODI score, surpassing an unbeaten 61 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo in 2010.
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India scored 51 for one in the batting powerplay – the most they have scored against England during this period. They had made 41 for two at Rajkot in 2008.
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R Ashwin’s strike-rate of 189.47 (36 off 19 balls) is the highest for an Indian scoring at least 25 at No. 8 against England. Kapil Dev held the previous record with a strike-rate of 162.16 (60 off 37 balls) at Leeds in 1982.
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Interestingly, there have been only two better performances (strike-rate-wise) than Ashwin’s performance for India against any opponent. Both have come from Ajit Agarkar’s bat against Zimbabwe.
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England’s win provided the first instance of a side batting second winning a day-night encounter at Kennington Oval. All the four previous day-night games were won by the side batting first.
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India haven’t won a single international match on this England tour yet.
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Ravindra Jadeja won his third Man-of-the-Match award.
