Summary

  • India hold nerve despite losing three late wickets for 14 runs

  • Gill (87) and Patel (52) steer India towards victory

  • Iyer crashes 30-ball half-century

  • England struggle to 248 all out

  • Buttler and Bethell make half-centuries

  • England lose three wickets for two runs after racing to 75-0

  • First of three ODIs, Nagpur

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter, Matthew Henry & Stephan Shemilt

  1. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    That was Duckett’s call and Salt has simply turned for the third without checking on his partner. Salt ran the first two much quicker than Duckett, but only has himself to blame there as Duckett would have been running to the danger end.

  2. Eng 75-1

    Hello, Joe. Root arrives.

    Looking again, Salt pretty much ran three there. I think Duckett dawdled the first. Was a third there? Probably.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Salt run out 43 (Eng 75-1)

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    Oh no. No, no, no.

    This is a calamity from England, a real waste of a superb opening stand. Phil Salt is stranded in a total mix-up with Ben Duckett.

    Salt cuts Hardik Pandya and runs two, then turns for a third. The ball is at deep point, fielded by Shreyas Iyer. As Salt turns and runs, Duckett doesn't move. Salt runs, Duckett doesn't. The rest is not pretty. Salt not even close when keeper KL Rahul removes the bails.

  4. Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    The 26 runs scored by Phil Salt against Harshit Rana in the sixth over is the second-most number of runs any batter has scored in an over against India in India in an ODI. James Faulkner holds the top spot, scoring 30 runs off Ishant Sharma's over in Mohali in 2013.

  5. Eng 72-0

    The super-sub, Jon. Concussion shenanigans. Geddit?

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    I’m not familiar with the appearance of Harshit. I’m struggling to relate Stephan’s description of him with my mental image of Ole GS, the ‘baby-faced assassin’.

    Jon, Windsor

  7. Eng 71-0

    Salt 40, Duckett 30

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    Thing is, if India thought spin might be Salt's Kryptonite, they've got Duckett at the other end. More sweeps than Trigger's broom. Two boundaries, one a reverse. Everything must go.

  8. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator

    What early circumspection was there has now emphatically left the room. These two have gone into full T20 powerplay mode.

  9. Eng 60-0

    Change of pace. Spin. Axar Patel. Salt is unfussed. Four through mid-on. It's carnage.

  10. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    This is the second 50+ stand for Phil Salt and Ben Duckett as ODI opening partners. In six innings so far, they have scored 239 runs as an opening pair at an average of 47.8 and at a run-rate of 6.43 runs per over.

  11. Eng 56-0

    Shami actually does quite well to keep Duckett relatively quiet. Round the wicket. Tight line. Sole boundary from it.

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    6-4-6-4-0-6. looks more like the start of a Murray five-setter fightback at Wimbledon.

    David in Maspalomas.

  13. Eng 56-0

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    India are asking if the ball has gone out of shape. England have been hitting it hard, but that feels optimistic.

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    Maybe Harshit IS only a part-timer.

    Gus in Durham

  15. Eng 52-0

    With gags as bad as that, I'm not surprised you want to remain anonymous.

    Seriously, put your names on messages.

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    In this mood, Phil Salt should be called 'I Can't Believe It's Not Buttler'. (UnSalted is also available.)

    Anonymous

  17. 6 runs

    Eng 52-0

    6-4-6-4-0-6

    My word!

    The best until last. Phil Salt has absolutely murdered this last ball of the over. Too short. Nailed over square leg for six more. It's gone miles.

  18. Eng 46-0

    Salt 28 (19)

    Muscled. Four more. Mid-wicket. 20 off the over. Two balls to go

  19. 6 runs

    Eng 42-0

    Six more!

    That's a Mal Loye throwback! Swept for six.

    6-4-6 in this over so far.

  20. 6 runs

    Eng 32-0

    The first six!

    It's not where Salt wants it to go, but it says six in the book (or laptop, whatever they score on these days).

    A big swipe at Harshit goes over the keeper's head and all the way over the rope.