KOLKATA, Jan 22 (IANS): England registered their first victory of their Indian cricket tour, edging past the hosts by five runs in the inconsequential third and final One-Day International (ODI) at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday.
Chasing 322 to win, India almost rode on Kedar Jadhav's brilliant 90 off just 75 balls along with Hardik Pandya's career-best score of 56 off 43 balls, which saw a match-winning 104-run sixth wicket stand off just 83 balls.
But, with 16 runs needing in the last over, Jadhav hit a six and a four off the first two balls to give the 66,000-odd crowd some hope, but fell to Chris Woakes eventually.
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England
Jason Roy b Ravindra Jadeja 65
Sam Billings c Jasprit Bumrah b Ravindra Jadeja 35
Jonny Bairstow c Ravindra Jadeja b Hardik Pandya 56
Eoin Morgan c Jasprit Bumrah b Hardik Pandya 43
Jos Buttler c KL Rahul b Hardik Pandya 11
Ben Stokes not out 57
Moeen Ali c Ravindra Jadeja b Jasprit Bumrah 2
Chris Woakes run out 34
Liam Plunkett run out 1
Extras: (b 1, lb 8, w 7, nb 1) 17
Total (8 wickets, 50 overs) 321
Fall of wickets 1-98 (Billings, 17.2 ov), 2-110 (Roy, 19.4 ov), 3-194 (Morgan, 33.4 ov), 4-212 (Buttler, 37.6 ov), 5-237 (Bairstow, 41.3 ov), 6-246 (Ali, 42.6 ov), 7-319 (Woakes, 49.4 ov), 8-321 (Plunkett, 49.6 ov)
Bowling:
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 8-0-56-0
Hardik Pandya 10-1-48-3
Jasprit Bumrah 10-1-68-1
Yuvraj Singh 3-0-17-0
Ravindra Jadeja 10-0-62-2
Ravichandran Ashwin 9-0-60-0
India (target: 322)
Ajinkya Rahane b Willey 1
KL Rahul c Jos Buttler b Jake Ball 11
Virat Kohli c Jos Buttler b Ben Stokes 55
Yuvraj Singh c Sam Billings b Liam Plunkett 45
MS Dhoni c Jos Buttler b Jake Ball 25
Kedar Jadhav c Sam Billings b Chris Woakes 90
Hardik Pandya b Ben Stokes 56
Ravindra Jadeja c Jonny Bairstow b Chris Woakes 10
R Ashwin c Chris Woakes b Ben Stokes 1
Extras (lb 8, w 13, nb 1) 22
Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 316
Fall of wickets 1-13 (Rahane, 1.4 ov), 2-37 (Rahul, 5.6 ov), 3-102 (Kohli, 19.4 ov), 4-133 (Yuvraj Singh, 25.3 ov), 5-173 (Dhoni, 31.4 ov), 6-277 (Pandya, 45.3 ov), 7-291 (Jadeja, 46.5 ov), 8-297 (Ashwin, 47.5 ov), 9-316 (Jadhav, 49.5 ov)
Bowling:
Chris Woakes 10-0-75-2
David Willey 2-0-8-1
Jake Ball 10-0-56-2
Liam Plunkett 10-0-65-1
Ben Stokes 10-0-63-3
Moeen Ali 8-0-41-0