Twitter Reactions: England show India who the boss is in ODI cricket
England chased the target down with 8 wickets in hand and claimed the series 2-1.
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England showed India why they are still at No.2 and what makes them the No.1 ODI team. Joe Root hit the winning shots dropped his bat and it was truly a mic drop performance by the England Test captain. After the Indian team batting first crawled their way to 256 it appeared as if batting was actually difficult on this wicket, however, all the English batters were at ease and got over the line with 8 wickets and more than 5 overs to spare.
It was a day Virat Kohli and his team would want to forget. Like a nightmare. Being asked to bat first Rohit Sharma struggled against the new-ball bowlers and that kind of set the momentum for the Indian innings. He got out for 2 from 18 balls. Shikhar Dhawan couldn’t keep up the scoring rate either. He did score 44 runs but took 49 balls which is unlike him.
Virat Kohli looked fluent, as Dinesh Karthik and Suresh Raina got out in quick succession both the middle order batsmen were accounted for by Adil Rashid who would later also dismiss Kohli. The Indian skipper scored yet another half century and the fans would’ve hoped he’d take the team to a good total. But once Rashid produced the beauty that stunned Kohli there was hardly any life left in the Indian batting line-up. MS Dhoni struggled to play the big shots and could never actually bat freely, Hardik Pandya was ordinary as well. On the back of Shardul Thakur’s cameo Team India managed to post a total over 250 runs in their 50 overs.
It was expected that a sluggish looking wicket would get worse and the target was rather an interesting one. Once Jonny Bairstow and James Vince walked out to bat runs were just flowing out of the bat. Boundaries were coming at will and the Indian pacers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Shardul Thakur were way below ordinary. They bowled just where the batsmen wanted and runs were easy to come.
Bairstow’s 13-ball 30 set the platform and Joe Root and Eoin Morgan shared an almost 200-run partnership and took the team home. Root got to his hundred on the last ball of the innings while Morgan was unbeaten on 88. With that, the home team also claimed the series 2-1.
Here is how Twitterati reacted to England’s clinical victory:
Evening India ….. 2-1 England 🏴
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) July 17, 2018
Yessss @root66 👏🏼👏🏼 pic.twitter.com/GycKJFyOuo
— Ben Duckett (@BenDuckett1) July 17, 2018
So 3-3 after 6 white ball games. I suspect though that India would gladly trade the T20 series win for a better odi result.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) July 17, 2018
Most Indian Batsmen scored 20+ runs but no one except @imVkohli converted into big one #INDvsENG @BCCI @AkashvaniAIR
— Ajay Ratra (@ajratra) July 17, 2018
India have experimented with 7 players KL Rahul, Rahane, Kedar Jadhav, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Karthik, Raina for the two middle over slots. Don't seem to have still settled on both positions.
Feel Krunal and Rayudu might get a look in. Who has been your best pick? #ENGvIND— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) July 17, 2018
Stroll in the park now … England making a very very good India Team look distinctly average today … #ENGvIND
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) July 17, 2018
India's bowling looking toothless at this stage. Root's reading of Kuldeep has been excellent
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) July 17, 2018
India were outplayed and have a lot of thinking to do before the World cup. Hope this defeat serves as a blessing in disguise and they are able to arrive at a settled combination. Congratulations to England. #ENGvIND
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) July 17, 2018
9 consecutive bilateral ODI series win comes to an end.
India lost 1st bilateral ODI series under Kohli captaincy.#ENGvsIND #EngvInd
— Cricket Engineer (@CricketEngineer) July 17, 2018
India missed an opportunity to give both DK and KL Rahul a solid run, have learnt nothing new from this Limited overs series. #EngvInd
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) July 17, 2018
Thumping shot gets Root his century and a smashing win for England. Let's face it, this is a bruising defeat for India. Completely outplayed
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) July 17, 2018
Joe Root goes past Marcus Trescothick to become England’s all time hundrediest ODI cricketer with No13…
— Ali Martin (@Cricket_Ali) July 17, 2018
Does that confirm Scotland as 2019 World Champions? #EngvInd
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) July 17, 2018
#Interesting, Dhoni collects ball after Ind loses ODI series to Eng at Leeds, does it mean he will not play again for India, somehow his body language too not encouraging tonight
— V V Subrahmanyam (@hydvvs) July 17, 2018
What a series win that is @englandcricket! Two very big wins under pressure! Congrats to everyone involved, especially @root66 on his back to back 💯’s
— Alex Hales (@AlexHales1) July 17, 2018
England register their 8th consecutive bilateral ODI series win and with it also end India's streak of 9 consecutive series wins. #EngvInd
— Mazher Arshad (@MazherArshad) July 17, 2018
Our last 8 ODI series:
WWWWWWWW pic.twitter.com/66LH68d4X5
— England's Barmy Army (@TheBarmyArmy) July 17, 2018
Virat Kohli is perfect as a brand ambassador for Uber.
Like the cab drivers, he also keeps dropping people all the time 🚗 #ENGvsIND
— Shridhar V (@iimcomic) July 17, 2018
England's bowling lacks the star quality of their batting but if they bowl with control & build pressure then more often than not they'll come out on top. At Lord's & in Leeds they did exactly that. India batted poorly at times but England forced them into mistakes. #EngvInd
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) July 17, 2018
MS Dhoni took the ball from umpires at the end of the game. Will that be the end of the Indian stalwart in international cricket?
— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) July 17, 2018
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