India sealed a sequence win by taking an unassailable 2-0 lead within the 2nd ODI in opposition to England on the Barabati Stadium in Cuttack. The trajectory of the second ODI was just like the primary one in some methods, however nonetheless totally different sufficient.
England received the toss, selected to bat, and acquired off to a flier. This one largely due to Ben Duckett (65 off 56). However because the story has been pf this tour, England’s center order got here undone in opposition to spin within the center overs. Ravindra Jadeja (3/35) ran an especially tight ship within the center overs, which helped India negate the perfect efforts of Joe Root (69 off 72). England resurged in the direction of the tip with some well timed knocks that took them previous the 300 run-mark. None of it mattered an hour and a half later.
Rohit Sharma (119 off 90) continued with the strategy that has seen him reinvent himself as an opener in ODIs. Though the beginning was gradual, Rohit discovered his mojo and attacked any and each bowler that dared to return his approach. Sharma as soon as once more reached a person fifty contained in the powerplay itself and put up a stand of 136 with Shubman Gill (60 off 52) who was very happy letting Rohit do his job. Each Gill and Virat Kohli have been dismissed in fast succession, however Rohit continued his relentless assault till his departure left the end result a formality. Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel chipped in with forties, however even a late order collapse couldn’t preserve India from managing a sequence win.
Listed here are the perfect stats highlights from the sport:
50 – This match marked Rohit Sharma’s fiftieth ODI as captain. He has now received 36 of them.
2 – At 33 years and 164 days previous, Varun Chakravarthy turned India’s second oldest ODI debutant.
1 – Joe Root made his 56th rating of fifty or extra in ODIs and broke the England report beforehand held by Eoin Morgan.
2 – Rohit Sharma ended his 6-month previous tie with Chris Gayle and have become the participant with the second most sixes in ODIs with 338. Shahid Afridi leads the pack with 351 whereas Gayle has 331 ODI sixes.
3 – Rohit Sharma’s forty ninth century in worldwide cricket moved him previous Rahul Dravid’s 48 and into third place on the checklist of Indian gamers with essentially the most centuries in worldwide cricket. Solely Virat Kohli (81) and Sachin Tendulkar (100) have extra.
10 – Rohit Sharma moved previous Rahul Dravid’s profession tally of 10,889 ODI runs and entered into the highest 10 ODI run-getters of all time. Amongst Indians, Rohit is the fourth highest run-getter in ODIs.
2 – Rohit Sharma turned solely the second participant to amass 30 centuries as an opener in ODIs. Sachin Tendulkar with 45 has essentially the most.
2 – Rohit Sharma now has the second most runs by an Indian participant as an opener in worldwide cricket. Rohit took his tally to fifteen,404 runs going previous Sachin Tendulkar’s 15,335. Virender Sehwag (16,119) is within the high spot.
2 – This century, reached in 75 balls, was Rohit Sharma’s second quickest in that respect. His quickest century is the one he reached in 63 balls in opposition to Afghanistan within the 2023 World Cup.
19 – This match was India’s nineteenth profitable chase of a goal of 300 or extra in ODIs, essentially the most by any group. England are a distant second with 14 such chases.
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