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What The 2 nd  ODI of the 5-match series between India and England . When October 17, 2011. The game begins at 14:30 pm, IST. The match is a day-night match. Where Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi. The Kotla track has usually favored spin bowling in the ODI format of the game. India has not lost a game at the Feroz Shah Kotla since we beat England by 39 runs in March 2006.  Trivia: MS Dhoni now wants just four sixes to move Sachin Tendulkar from top in the list of batsmen hitting maximum ODI sixes on Indian soil. Interestingly Dhoni’s 68 sixes in India have come in 67 innings and Tendulkar played 160 innings for his 71. Venue Stats: India – played - 15, won - 9, lost – 5, tied – 0, no result – 1 England – played - 3, won - 3, lost – 1, tied – 0, no result – 0 Highest total in an innings: West Indies 330/8 in 50.0 overs v Netherlands - February 28, 2011 Lowest total in an innings: Netherlands 115 all out in 31.3 overs v West Indies - February 28, 2011 Best individual score in an ...

India’s Suresh Raina and England’s Ravi Bopara shared Man-of-the-Match honours in the fourth ODI here at the Lord’s for outstanding batting performances. Raina and Bopara scored 84 and 96 runs for their respective teams and were named joint Men-of-the-Match after the match was abandoned due to rain and a tie declared under the Duckworth/Lewis method. Excerpts from their post-presentation interview. Ravi Bopara: On whether the tie brought on joy or disappointment I am actually very happy; getting a tie here clinches the series for us […] With the rain about we never really knew when to accelerate so in the end [it’s] a fair result. On whether he faced the dilemma of not knowing whether to play for a win or for a D/L par score That’s exactly what was going through my mind. Do I knock it for ones and twos here or do I hit the big shots? – I was never quite sure but once [Graeme Swann] Swanny got out and [there were] only a couple of overs left, [I thought] we [had] to take it on...

• James Anderson’s 150th ODI. He became only the fourth English player after Paul Collingwood (197), Alec Stewart (170) and Darren Gough (159). • India lost their first four wickets with only 25 runs. That was their worst start against England. Before they were 34 for four at Rose Bowl in 2007. • Rahul Dravid was run-out for the 40th time in his ODI career. He equaled Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq’s tally of run-outs. Now only Marvan Atapattu (41) is on top than Dravid. • The 112-run partnership between MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja is India’s best 3rd wicket partnership against England. The 121-run between Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif at Lord’s in 2002 is the before recored. • The Dhoni-Jadeja partnership is only the 5th century stand for the 6th wicket for India against England in ODIs. Dhoni features in three of them. • The 59-run partnership between R Ashwin and Jadeja is the highest 7th wicket stand for India against England. The previous record was 52 between Brijesh ...

England won the ODI series against India. Ones again World champions fail in all form of cricket against England in this tour. Ravi Bopara scored 96 which helps to chased India's 280-5. England on 270 the rain stopped play at that time they were tied on the Duckworth Lewis method. So the match was tied and automatically England won the series with 2-0 lead. Bopara was aimed to make his first ODI century with a huge shot but it was caught on the deep midwicket boundary by Jadeja. Ironically if he scored a single on that ball England would have won on the D/L method by a single run. Ian Bell scored 54, Grame swam (31) and Bresnan (27) are good supporting with Bopara to chase the target. On the other hand the first time the teams went off for rainfall India was ahead on the DL method and eager to get off the pitch. They were less eager to get back on for one more over and by the moment that had been bowled England were ahead before they went off one more time with the teams tie...

Today September 9, 2011, the 3rd ODI match between England and India at 17:30 pm in Kennington Oval, London. Indian Cricket team is still searching the first win in this tournament. The last match among these two teams at this ground was a thriller. England set the target 316 runs on board with the help of energetic 107* from Owais Shah in 95 balls. And India was fighting with some brilliant stroke-play from their top order batsmens (Sourav Ganguly 53 off 60, Sachin Tendulkar 94 off 81 and Gautam Gambhir 47 off 57). But at the last the game went down to the wire, among the visitors needing 10 runs off the last over with three wickets in hand, it was Robin Uthappa who saw the side through with two balls to spare. India having good batting line up with top order Parthiv, Rahane, Dravid and middle order with Raina, kholi, Dhoni. But with poor bowling still looking for the first win in this tournament. MS Dhoni should give chance to Mishra for fifth bowler and he can bat as well. ...

Today Sep 6, 2011, 2nd ODI match between England and India in The Rose Bowl, Southampton at 18.30 pm, IST. Indian Cricket team is still looking for the first win against England in this tour. The First ODI match was stopped due to rain. That was the India’s best game of this tour. India scored 274 runs with the help of Parthiv (95) runs, and Praveen Kumar bowled well. He took 2 top order batsmen in the first spell but rain spoiled the game. Young openers Parthiv and Rahane are in good form will help India to put high score on board. Rravid, Raina, Dhoni are strong in middle order. Sachin Tendulkar having toe injury, so he is doute for is match. India’s bowling is not so good, except Praveen. England is having good pace attack to restrict India. Jonathan Trott, Ian Bell and Alastair Cook are in good form. England ODI captain Cook having pressure to maintain the England’s winning rate in this tournament. And Also India has to start their winning count in this match. Rahul Dra...

Can Indian bounce back today? Indian cricket team still not start their count in this England tour. Today September 3, 2011 the first One-Day International of the five-match series between England and India starts at 14:45 pm, IST in Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street. In this tour England won the Test and T20. England having good record in this ground, they New Zealand, Australia and Pakistan by 114 runs, four wickets and 24 runs respectively. India has played only one match at this ground (July 2002) which was rained out. Facing rain caught up the game, Sachin Tendulkar scored a brilliant innings (105*) batting at No. 4, in that match India scours 285 for four in 50 over’s. Young opening batsman Ajinkya Rahane played a memorable innings in T20 debut at Old Trafford would be a fine opening selection with Sachin Tendulkar . Rahane’s All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, replaced for the injured Gautam Gambhir. Rahul Dravid is in good form is thehappiest news for India. He is going to pl...