Ind VS Eng--ODI 2--INDIA WINS BY 9 RUNS!

ODI no. 2613

NatWest Series [India in England] - 2nd ODI England v India

2007 season

Played at County Ground, Bristol, on 24 August 2007 - day/night (50-over match) Result India won by 9 runs

	India innings (50 overs maximum)	R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	SC Ganguly	c Collingwood b Flintoff	39	100	54	5	1	72.22
	SR Tendulkar	c Prior b Flintoff	99	158	112	15	1	88.39
	Yuvraj Singh	c Collingwood b Broad	49	94	53	6	0	92.45
	R Dravid	not out	92	88	63	11	1	146.03
	MS Dhoni	c Tremlett b Anderson	21	31	18	3	0	116.66
	KD Karthik	lbw b Flintoff	1	5	2	0	0	50.00
	AB Agarkar	c Prior b Flintoff	1	2	3	0	0	33.33
	RR Powar	c Prior b Flintoff	1	2	2	0	0	50.00
	Piyush Chawla	not out	1	1	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(lb 8, w 9, nb 8)	25
	Total	(7 wickets; 50 overs)	329	(6.58 runs per over)

Did not bat RP Singh, MM Patel

Fall of wickets1-113 (Ganguly, 19.3 ov), 2-180 (Tendulkar, 31.3 ov), 3-243 (Yuvraj Singh, 40.5 ov), 4-302 (Dhoni, 46.6 ov), 5-310 (Karthik, 47.5 ov), 6-324 (Agarkar, 49.1 ov), 7-326 (Powar, 49.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	SCJ Broad	9	0	54	1	6.00	(2nb, 1w)
	JM Anderson	10	1	56	1	5.60	(3w)
	A Flintoff	10	0	56	5	5.60	(3nb, 1w)
	CT Tremlett	9	0	73	0	8.11	(3nb, 2w)
	AD Mascarenhas	4	0	31	0	7.75	(1w)
	PD Collingwood	4	0	24	0	6.00
	RS Bopara	4	0	27	0	6.75

	England innings (target: 330 runs from 50 overs)	R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AN Cook	c Dhoni b Patel	36	51	41	8	0	87.80
	MJ Prior	c Dravid b Patel	33	49	28	6	0	117.85
	IR Bell	c Patel b Piyush Chawla	64	128	96	6	1	66.66
	KP Pietersen	b Piyush Chawla	25	50	25	3	0	100.00
	PD Collingwood	b Piyush Chawla	27	24	25	4	0	108.00
	A Flintoff	c Agarkar b Powar	9	5	7	2	0	128.57
	RS Bopara	lbw b Patel	17	22	20	1	0	85.00
	AD Mascarenhas	c Agarkar b Singh	52	45	39	1	5	133.33
	SCJ Broad	not out	29	35	24	2	2	120.83
	CT Tremlett	not out	0	4	1	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 6, w 15, nb 6)	28
	Total	(8 wickets; 50 overs)	320	(6.40 runs per over)

Did not bat JM Anderson

Fall of wickets1-76 (Prior, 10.5 ov), 2-76 (Cook, 10.6 ov), 3-134 (Pietersen, 21.2 ov), 4-176 (Collingwood, 29.1 ov), 5-185 (Flintoff, 30.5 ov), 6-220 (Bopara, 37.5 ov), 7-240 (Bell, 41.3 ov), 8-299 (Mascarenhas, 48.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AB Agarkar	9	1	67	0	7.44	(1nb, 3w)
	RP Singh	10	0	56	1	5.60	(3w)
	MM Patel	8	0	70	3	8.75	(5nb, 2w)
	SC Ganguly	3	0	17	0	5.66
	Piyush Chawla	10	0	60	3	6.00	(1w)
	RR Powar	10	0	43	1	4.30	(1w)

Toss India, who chose to bat first Series 7-match series level 1-1 Player of the match R Dravid (India) Umpires BR Doctrove (West Indies) and IJ Gould TV umpire NJ Llong Match referee RS Mahanama (Sri Lanka) Reserve umpire PJ Hartley

Match notes

• India innings
• Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
• India: 50 runs in 12.2 overs (78 balls), Extras 5
• 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 78 balls (SC Ganguly 14, SR Tendulkar 34, Ex 5)
• Drinks: India - 69/0 in 15.0 overs (SC Ganguly 21, SR Tendulkar 41)
• Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
• SR Tendulkar: 50 off 56 balls (10 x 4)
• India: 100 runs in 16.6 overs (110 balls), Extras 11
• 1st Wicket: 100 runs in 110 balls (SC Ganguly 37, SR Tendulkar 52, Ex 11)
• Drinks: India - 149/1 in 26.1 overs (SR Tendulkar 88, Yuvraj Singh 5)
• India: 150 runs in 26.2 overs (167 balls), Extras 17
• 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (SR Tendulkar 35, Yuvraj Singh 14, Ex 1)
• India: 200 runs in 34.4 overs (217 balls), Extras 17
• 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 51 balls (Yuvraj Singh 22, R Dravid 28, Ex 3)
• India: 250 runs in 42.4 overs (268 balls), Extras 20
• R Dravid: 50 off 43 balls (6 x 4)
• 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (R Dravid 28, MS Dhoni 20, Ex 2)
• India: 300 runs in 46.4 overs (295 balls), Extras 24
• Innings Break: India - 329/7 in 50.0 overs (R Dravid 92, Piyush Chawla 1)

• England innings
• England: 50 runs in 6.3 overs (43 balls), Extras 4
• 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 43 balls (AN Cook 21, MJ Prior 26, Ex 4)
• Power Play 2: Overs 10.1 - 15.0
• Drinks: England - 89/2 in 14.0 overs (IR Bell 8, KP Pietersen 3)
• Power Play 3: Overs 15.1 - 20.0
• England: 100 runs in 15.2 overs (102 balls), Extras 10
• 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 57 balls (IR Bell 19, KP Pietersen 23, Ex 9)
• England: 150 runs in 23.4 overs (154 balls), Extras 16
• Drinks: England - 176/4 in 29.1 overs (IR Bell 39)
• England: 200 runs in 33.3 overs (214 balls), Extras 17
• IR Bell: 50 off 76 balls (6 x 4)
• England: 250 runs in 43.1 overs (274 balls), Extras 24
• 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 36 balls (AD Mascarenhas 38, SCJ Broad 8, Ex 4)
• AD Mascarenhas: 50 off 36 balls (1 x 4, 5 x 6)
• England: 300 runs in 48.5 overs (309 balls), Extras 28
• One Day International Scorers: Raju and Binoy George

goob job team
i just saw match

lol when england started to bat it looked like we were gonna lose
and end of their innings they also did good

good job to our spinners and most of our batsmen 👏

agarkar sucks and is only good at fielding 😆
i hope zaheer gets well soon
agarkar shouldnt play in next match

Yea. Our team did well today. They paid for the last match as well!

England v India, 2nd ODI, Bristol

Match poised as India apply the brakes on England

The Bulletin by Andrew McGlashan

August 24, 2007

25 overs England 157 for 3 ( Bell 30*, Collingwood 17*) need 173 more runs to beat India 329 for 7 (Tendulkar 99, Dravid 92*, Flintoff 5-56)
Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details
How they were out

Two wickets in two balls from Munaf Patel set England back in their huge run-chase after Matt Prior and Alastair Cook had made a flying start. The opening pair added 76 before Patel, feeling his way back into top-level action after an injury lay-off, struck in his second over. India's fielding was again poor - Kevin Pietersen was dropped twice - but Piyush Chawla struck with his second delivery to provide another twist to an enthralling match.

Whereas at The Rose Bowl Cook and Prior took their time, with 330 to chase down they knew making the most of the fielding restrictions was of paramount importance. To their advantage was the lightning-fast outfield and a couple of Cook's clips through the leg side were timed to perfection.

Prior took a more cultured route, not afraid to go in the air, and was dropped at slip by Sourav Ganguly on 8. In fairness to Ganguly, Mahendra Singh Dhoni feigned to go for the catch and put off his slip fielder. Prior then showed his true ability with a series of strong cover drives.

Ajit Agarkar got most of the punishment, his first four overs costing 41 as his gentle outswing was easily dispatched by Cook and Prior. England were ahead of India in the first 10 overs - reaching 75 without loss - and above the required rate, showing they could make use of the Powerplays.

Prior was offered another life, top-edging a Patel no-ball to midwicket, but fell shortly afterwards when a manufactured swipe went steepling to Rahul Dravid. There was time for the batsmen to cross and next ball Cook edged a good off-cutter low to Dhoni. In two balls India had control again, but did their best to let it go.

Bell, on 1, was dropped by Ramesh Powar at third man - who hardly raises the standard of India's fielding - then a manic couple of moments included two chances against Pietersen in one Ganguly over. Firstly, Dhoni couldn't pouch a thin edge and two balls later Ganguly himself couldn't hold on to a return chance as Pietersen punched off the back foot.

Predictably, Pietersen responded with bravado, pulling the hapless Agarkar then walking across his stumps and whipping him through midwicket. Agarkar looked a broken man and India, despite making 329, knew they were in for a challenge. Dravid, though, turned to his young legspinner and Chawla - who once bowled Sachin Tendulkar with a googly - beat Pietersen's forward prod with a straight ball to disturb off stump. It could prove the defining moment.

India 329 for 7 (Tendulkar 99, Dravid 92*, Flintoff 5-56) v England

Sachin Tendulkar laid the foundation with an enterprising 99 Getty Images

After barely turning up in the opening game of the series, India 's batsmen turned on the style at Bristol as they piled up 329 for 7. Rahul Dravid raced to an outstanding unbeaten 92 off 63 balls with Sachin Tendulkar playing his most flamboyant innings of the tour. He fell one short of a century, putting on 113 for the first wicket with Sourav Ganguly, and the middle order made hay in the sunshine.

Dravid's innings was faultless as he continually picked the gaps, taking 43 balls to reach fifty, making his best score against England in ODIs as India added 93 in the final 10 overs. After the criticism he received for pedestrian batting at other stages of the tour it was a strong response from the Indian captain. It's the third time India have played an ODI at Nevil Road and the third time they have posted above 300.

England's attack, without Monty Panesar, offered little variety. His replacement, Chris Tremlett, had an innings to forget as the natural length which made him such a threat in the Tests became easily hittable in the one-day game. Paul Collingwood struggled to fill 20 overs especially with Dimitri Mascarenhas proving very easy-paced for the surface. To add to England 's problems, Andrew Flintoff crashed into a boundary board and laboured during his final spell although he kept charging in to collect his first five-wicket haul in ODIs.

After playing with great restraint during the Test series - and being tied down in the first ODI at the Rose Bowl - Tendulkar allowed himself more freedom. He quickly summed up the conditions and realised it was a day to cash in, walking across his stumps and also giving himself room to flay Flintoff over cover to bring up his fifty off 56 balls. He twice swept Mascarenhas to the boundary in his first over and dispatched the struggling Tremlett high over long-off for six. He offered one tough chance, on 57, when Tremlett failed to hold a drive a mid-off.

He was toying with the England attack, hitting them where he wanted, but a bout of cramp in his hand halted his momentum. Despite treatment from the physio he lost his timing as he tried to work through the 90s. Collingwood reacted swiftly, recalling Flintoff, and the move paid off as Tendulkar fended at a rapid bouncer and Matt Prior took a catch down the leg side.

Andrew Flintoff got his first five-for in ODIs and was the only one who looked to bother the Indians Getty Images

However, replays showed the ball took arm-guard rather than glove as a century continued to elude him. It's the second 99 Tendulkar has made in ODIs on tour, following the near-miss against Ireland, at Stormont, in July.

Ganguly played his part in an opening stand of 113 in less than 20 overs as India took advantage of the Powerplays. Unlike England, who pondered their way to 88 off 20 overs on Tuesday, before expanding later in the innings, India went hard with the restrictions in place. Overs 10 -15 brought 30 runs and 15-20 added a further 44 when Ganguly took the long-handle at Tremlett with 17 coming off the 17th over.

Flintoff was Collingwood's saving grace, having Ganguly well-taken at backward point by the captain before returning to end Tendulkar's innings. But India kept building solid partnerships; Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh added 67, Yuvraj and Dravid shared 63 and Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni put on 59. Yuvraj took 17 balls over his first six runs before a purple patch against Mascarenhas where he creamed three fours in four balls. He too fell short of a landmark, snapped up at backward point for 49. But Dravid was unstoppable and England will need an almighty run chase to maintain their series lead.

this was a great match n especially the spirit both team showed n the attitude of not giving up til the very end

CONGRATS to the Indian Side n comiseration to the England side though they put up gd competition

Sachin was ver unlucky n Dravid just rocked

AD Mascarenhas played really well n entertained every1 with his 6s never let us miss MS Dhoni 😆

Overall a fantastic match
👏

Yea. We played really well and I think we deserved the win!

I feel sorry for Dravid and Sachin for not making their 100s but they were still good!!

I hope we can carry this same spirit and will through the rest of the series!!

so sorry for Sachin


Dravid is really slow but he rocked this match with his superfast 92 off 63 balls

congratz india
and yea..sachin 99 😭