Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nBrendon McCullum’s reduced role as England’s white-ball coach began with a reminder of how much work there is to do on a one-day team beaten by India.<\/p>\n
Two days after McCullum was sacked as Test coach, England were outplayed to lose by six wickets at Edgbaston in the opening match of a three-game series.<\/p>\n
England had outclassed the tourists to win the T20 series 4-0, but this was a different India side, boosted by the inclusion of superstars Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah and Shubman Gill.<\/p>\n
It was Gill who made the main contribution in the chase of a meagre 259.<\/p>\n
The captain was batting serenely on 80 until he retired with what appeared to be a hamstring injury, though he later clarified it was just cramp and he expects to be fit for Thursday’s second game in Cardiff.<\/p>\n
From 149-2, India quickly found themselves 160-4 and England had a chance. But Axar Patel, who earlier took 4-62 with the ball, made an unbeaten 57 and Washington Sundar 52 not out to ease to victory.<\/p>\n
That England had something to defend was a recovery from 107-6, including a collapse of three wickets for three runs in six balls.<\/p>\n
The game was at risk of not stretching deep into the afternoon, only for a stand of 111 between Joe Root and Liam Dawson.<\/p>\n
Dawson’s 68 was his highest score for England in any format, while Root was typically classy for his unbeaten 76.<\/p>\n
Root was left stranded when England lost their last four wickets for 30 runs, leaving India a target that was never likely to be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First one-day international, Edgbaston England 258 (47.5 overs): Root 76* (76), Dawson 68 (83); Axar 4-62 India 262-4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-526097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}