By Neil Squires<\/p>\n
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) – England beat India by 27 runs in a high-scoring contest at Lord’s on Sunday to secure their first bilateral one-day international series victory against the world’s number one-ranked side since \u200c2018.<\/p>\n
Opener Ben Duckett laid the foundations for a colossal total of 387-3 in 50 overs with a record-breaking \u200c141 from 135 balls as England took the series 2-1.<\/p>\n
It was the highest innings in an ODI at Lord’s, eclipsing Viv Richards’s 138 not out in \u200bthe 1979 World Cup final.<\/p>\n
“That’s pretty cool to me. Very precious,” said Duckett. “But all that I’m really bothered about today is that we’ve beaten the best side in the world.<\/p>\n
“We’ve probably had a fair few critics over the last 12 to 18 months and a lot of that has been rightly so at times but now we can build on this.<\/p>\n
“We’ve shown what we’re capable of, we \u200care just trying to be as consistent with \u2060it as possible moving forward.<\/p>\n
“The bowlers have been pretty good this series. With the bat, we’ve let ourselves down a little bit so it was really nice to put that performance together today.”<\/p>\n
Rohit \u2060Sharma gave India hope with a thrilling 138 from 110 balls which served to underline his continuing value to India after the talk over whether he still has a future in the side but, with Sam Curran taking 4-75, the huge target proved beyond the tourists.<\/p>\n
Duckett, \u200bwho hit \u200b18 fours and one six, shared in an opening stand of \u200b192 – England’s highest in an ODI against India – with \u200cJacob Bethell, who made 91. With player of the series Joe Root hitting 74 not out – his sixth successive ODI half-century – and Jos Buttler a blazing unbeaten 41 off just 13 balls, England posted their highest total at Lord’s in an ODI.<\/p>\n
India’s attack, missing Jasprit Bumrah with a knee injury, suffered badly. Gurnoor Brar’s figures of 0-97 in his 10 overs were the most expensive for his country against England in an ODI while Prince Yadav, who bowled seven wides, took 1-79.<\/p>\n
Rohit, who made his \u200c34th ODI hundred, shared in a 147-run first-wicket stand with Shubman Gill, \u200bwho made 77, but once the 39-year-old had gone, bowled by the slow left \u200barm spin of Bethell, India fell further and further \u200bbehind the required run rate.<\/p>\n
The loss of three wickets in the space of seven deliveries from Curran \u200ceffectively ended the pursuit.<\/p>\n
Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer both \u200bfell to catches in the \u200bdeep by substitute Rehan Ahmed before Virat Kohli miscued to England captain Harry Brook to depart for 74.<\/p>\n
It was Kohli’s first half-century at Lord’s but, even with India reaching 360-7, it was ultimately in a losing cause.<\/p>\n
“We gave a \u200bbit too many runs in the last \u200cthree overs – around 60 runs. That’s where the game went too far ahead from us,” said Gill, India’s captain.<\/p>\n
It \u200bhas been a disappointing white-ball trip all round for India who also lost both their T20 series \u200bto Ireland and England.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Neil Squires; editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Neil Squires LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) – England beat India by 27 runs in a high-scoring contest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,20341,740,1208,1209,85],"class_list":["post-810864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ben-duckett","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-india","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}