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India cruise into an early series lead against England with a routine four-wicket victory in Nagpur on Thursday.

England have slumped to a one-sided defeat against India in the first one-day international in Nagpur.

Having suffered a 4-1 defeat in the recent T20 series, Jos Buttler‘s side are under pressure to respond in the 50-over format.

Instead, the tourists were bowled all out for 248 with 16 deliveries to spare before India made light work of their target on home territory to prevail by four wickets.

Buttler and his side now have three days to ponder how to turn their fortunes around with India holding all the answers ahead of the second ODI.

Although England initially started on the front foot with a 75-run opening partnership, that quickly became 77-3 just seven balls later.

Phil Salt and Ben Duckett scored 43 and 32 respectively, but Harry Brook was out for a third-ball duck and Joe Root made just 19 from 31 deliveries.

While Buttler and Jacob Bethell steadied the ship with knocks of 52 and 51, India continued to strike at regular intervals, with Harshit Rana (3-53) and Ravindra Jadeja (3-26) the pick of the bowlers.

Shubman Gill is motoring ðŸâ€Â¥

England are out of ideas.

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England fail to build on early Archer wicket

Having contributed a potentially-decisive 21 not out with the bat, Jofra Archer took India’s first wicket in the fifth over with Yashasvi Jaiswal departing for 15.

Saqib Mahmood followed up by dismissing Rohit Sharma for just two, yet it was all India from that moment as Shubman Gill led the charge.

As well as Gill hitting 14 boundaries in a majestic 87 from 96, Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel chipped in with 59 and 52 respectively.

Although India were reduced from 221-3 to 235-6, having 13 overs to score 14 runs meant that they were never in any danger of losing the match.

The win was wrapped up with 68 balls to spare, with England left in no doubt that two faultless performances may be required to turn the series around.

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India dominate from start to finish as they record a seven-wicket victory over England in the first T20 international at Eden Gardens.

England have started their T20 series with India on a sour note after being thrashed in the first fixture at Eden Gardens.

Heading into this five-match batch of games, England are on an unbeaten three-series run, yet it is already a tough ask to extend that streak on the back of losing by seven wickets on Wednesday.

Despite Jos Buttler producing a defiant 68 from 44 balls, England succumbed to 132 all out in their 20 overs, providing India with the platform to attack.

Abhishek Sharma responded with an exhilarating 79 from just 34 balls, incredibly hitting eight sixes during a memorable knock that ensured an easy win for the home side.

Things looked bleak for England from the third ball as Phil Salt departed for a duck, with only one other player – Harry Brook with 17 – in the top eight reaching double figures.

Buttler held firm to keep England competitive to a certain extent, but Arshdeep Singh, Hardik Pandya, Varun Chakravarthy and Axar Patel all taking at least two wickets as they decimated the away side’s batting lineup.

Adil Rashid can only laugh.

Abhishek Sharma is playing some stupidly good cricket. pic.twitter.com/dEzk1wXgoJ

— Cricket on TNT Sports (@cricketontnt) January 22, 2025

India breeze to target

By the time that England made their breakthrough with the ball, India were already on 41 after 4.2 overs, with Jofra Archer taking the wickets of Sanju Samson (26) and Suryakumar Yadav (0).

Nevertheless, Abhishek was simply unstoppable with the bat with 13 of the 34 deliveries that he faced ended up at or over the boundary.

Adil Rashid stopped that charge with what was essentially a token wicket towards the end of the run chase, leaving Tilak Varma‘s 19 from 16 balls to seal the win after just 12.5 overs.

The England bowling figures made for grim reading as Gus Atkinson conceded 38 runs from two overs and Rashid shipped 27 runs off his 12 deliveries.

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Sports Mole previews the 2024 One Day International match between West Indies and England, scheduled to be played at the Kensington Oval on Wednesday.

England and the West Indies will head to the Kensington Oval in Barbados for the third and final match of their One Day International series on Wednesday night.

The series currently hangs in the balance, with the hosts winning the first match by eight wickets before the visitors clinched the second match with 15 balls to spare.

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After an Evin Lewis masterclass propelled his team to a commanding victory in the first ODI, the West Indies were quickly brought back down to earth, as they failed to defend a very competitive 328-6 in Antigua over the weekend.

Still, there were plenty of positives to take from the match for the hosts, but the biggest would have been the performance of Shai Hope, who scored a very impressive 117 off 127 balls – his 17th ton in the 50-over format.

The Windies skipper arrived at the crease in the fourth over with the job of rebuilding his side’s innings, and he stepped up in a big way, combining with Keacy Carty (71) to put on a 143-run partnership.

Sherfane Rutherford and Shimron Hetmyer also provided important contributions with the bat, forcing their opponents to utilise nine bowlers, but only Jofra Archer managed to deliver an economy rate of under 5.00.

While England are showing up as marginal favourites to claim the series – when these two teams faced off in an ODI at this venue just under a year ago, it was the West Indies that successfully chased down a target of 191 in just 31.4 overs in a rain-affected match.

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For England, their performance in the deeply one-sided first ODI showed that the road to the 2027 World Cup will be long and challenging for a new generation of cricketers, whose inexperience in 50-over cricket was glaringly evident in Antigua.

However, the visitors bounced back in the best way possible over the weekend, when Liam Livingstone put on a stellar show with an unbeaten century, steering England to a successful chase of 329 and pushing their ODI series against the West Indies to this decisive final match.

The stand-in captain smashed nine sixes and five fours, guiding the team to victory by five wickets with 15 balls remaining, following Phil Salt‘s run-a-ball 59 and Jacob Bethell‘s maiden international half-century.

With the ball, John Turner sent both Windies’ openers back to the pavilion after 19 balls and could have had them reeling even further had Bethell hung on to a half-chance to dismiss Carty while he was still in single digits.

Still, despite the victory and the momentum gained from that result, England fans will know that this final ODI is far from a given, especially if the side is unable to improve on what have been fairly toothless bowling performances overall on the pitches here in the Caribbean.

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Following almost a year out of the ODI setup, Shimron Hetmyer has largely impressed upon his return to the fold and should retain his place in the Windies’ middle order for this final match of the series.

With spin expected to play a major role in Barbados, Gudakesh Motie will be crucial to the hosts, and the left-armer has a solid record at this venue, having taken two or more wickets in three of his last four games here.

On the point of spin, Adil Rashid has failed to find his best form in this series but will likely remain as the visitors’ main spin option, with Livingstone providing him support with his off-breakers.

Jofra Archer has taken 17 wickets in nine matches this year, and while he came away wicketless in the second ODI, he is still expected to share the new ball with Turner on Wednesday.

West Indies squad: Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Keacy Carty, Shai Hope (c & wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Jewel Andrew, Roston Chase, Gudakesh Motie, Matthew Forde, Alzarri Joseph, Jayden Seales, Alick Athanaze, Romario Shepherd, Hayden Walsh

England squad: Rehan Ahmed, Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Jafer Chohan, Jordan Cox, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Dan Mousley, Jamie Overton, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Reece Topley, John Turner, Michael Pepper

Series so far

ODI 1 of 3: West Indies win by 8 wickets (DLS method)
England -209 (45.1)
West Indies – 157/2 (25.5) – Target 157

ODI 2 of 3: England won by 5 wickets
West Indies – 328/6 (50)
England – 329/5 (47.3)

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We say: West Indies to win

While England will enter this match with the momentum from their series-leveller, the inconsistency in their performances is a concern and their bowling has been an overall disappointment.

Indeed, the Windies have not been incredible themselves, but they seem to be less key-man dependent than their opponents, and that could prove to be the determining factor here in Barbados.

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Sports Mole previews the 2024 One Day International match between England and Australia, scheduled to be played at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

Australia‘s tour to England heads to the 50-over format this week, with the first of five one-day internationals spread over just 11 days set to get underway at Trent Bridge on Thursday morning.

The weather ultimately forced these rivals to draw the Ashes last year, and it was a similar situation last Sunday when the heavens opened to call an end to the T20I series after a win apiece in Southampton and Cardiff.

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England return to the 50-over format for the first time since December last year – a period during which the side relinquished the T20 world title to India and saw their hopes of a ‘perfect summer’ dashed by West Indies in the final Test of their tour.

The Three Lions will now look to make a positive start to the one-day series, unlike in the shortest format last week, but will have to do so without the services of white-ball skipper Jos Buttler, whose persistent calf injury ruled him out of the Hundred, T20 series, and has now forced him to sit out the ODIs as well.

Buttler has not featured for the hosts since they bowed out of the T20 World Cup in Guyana back in June and it is Harry Brook who has been selected to lead the team in this five-match series, which will also see him become England’s 37th ODI captain.

While Buttler’s absence is far from ideal, it has not affected England as much as some may have feared, as it paved the way for Liam Livingstone to return to the fold, and the Lancashire all-rounder was easily the pick of the Three Lions’ players in the 20-over format, top-scoring for them in both innings, including a Player of the Match performance in Cardiff where he blasted 87(47) and picked up 2/16 with the ball in just three overs.

Livingstone’s performance led England to victory that day and gave them the momentum coming into the first ODI at Trent Bridge, where their recent record has been average at best, with four wins, four losses and two no-results posted in their last 10.

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Meanwhile, Australia will have fond memories of their most recent visits to Nottingham during the 2019 World Cup, when David Warner‘s blistering 166 led them to a 48-run victory over Bangladesh and Nathan Coulter-Nile‘s 92 not-out secured a win against the West Indies a week earlier.

The Aussies also enter this series with the better recent head-to-head record, having won each of the last five ODIs against England, including a 3-0 clean sweep in November 2022 and a 33-run victory at the World Cup in India last year.

While the T20s saw the visitors field a much younger squad, the 50-over series will bring with it the return of stalwarts Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc and Marnus Labuschagne, which will undoubtedly give the reigning world champions a huge lift, though it will be interesting to see how they fare having not played much international cricket recently – certainly not in English conditions.

Starc’s return, in particular, will be vital for the men from Down Under, who have already seen injuries blight their pace attack in the last month, with the likes of Nathan Ellis, Riley Meredith and Xavier Bartlett all affected, while Josh Hazlewood‘s workload still requires fairly close management.

Still, Australia rarely put up poor showings in the ODI format, and with a blend of promising youth and experienced campaigners, it would not come as a massive shock if they put in a big performance in this opening match.

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Ben Duckett‘s impressive performances in the longest format of the game have earned him a call to the 50-over setup and he is expected to open the innings here on his home ground in Nottinghamshire.

Reports in the week indicate that interim coach Marcus Trescothick is ‘taking a cautious approach’ to manage Jofra Archer‘s workload, but he is likely to share the new ball with Cameron Green in this one after sitting out the second T20.

For the Aussies, all eyes will be on the highly-rated Jake Fraser-McGurk, who tore up the Indian Premier League this year to earn a spot as a T20 World Cup reserve, but then failed to make an impact in Scotland, contributing just 16 runs across three innings, including a pair of ducks in the first and third.

The visitors also received a major injury boost for the ODI series, with Mitchell Marsh cleared to play, and he will captain the side with Pat Cummins left out of the squad due to a planned rest period.

England squad: Harry Brook (c), Jofra Archer, Jacob Bethell, Brydon Carse, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Will Jacks, Liam Livingstone, Matthew Potts, Adil Rashid, Phil Salt, Jamie Smith, Olly Stone, Reece Topley, John Turner

Team B squad: Mitch Marsh (c), Sean Abbott, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Marnus Labuschagne, Glenn Maxwell, Matthew Short, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa

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We say: Australia to win

While England are in a transitionary phase, they are missing a few key players that would have made the squad had it not been for injuries and may just need this first match to find their rhythm after a fairly lengthy absence from the ODI format.

Australia have several big names returning to their setup for this series and the experience the likes of Smith, Starc and Maxwell bring will be invaluable. For that reason, we feel the visitors will take the lead in this five-match battle.

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Jofra Archer makes his long-awaited return for England in a 23-run victory over Pakistan in the second T20 international at Edgbaston.

England have commenced their summer fixtures with a 23-run victory over Pakistan in the second T20 international.

After the first fixture was washed out courtesy of the wet weather, there was extra importance on Saturday’s game at Edgbaston, with Jofra Archer making his first outing for over 14 months.

The pace bowler delivered 2-28 from his four overs after Jos Buttler‘s 84 with the bat, with the pair playing key roles as England bowled out Pakistan for 160.

Having won the toss, Pakistan put their hosts into bat, and the early breakthrough was made when Phil Salt (13) went at the start of the fourth over.

However, Will Jacks arrived at the crease to put on a 71-run partnership alongside Buttler before departing for 37 from just 23 balls, putting the onus on Buttler to kick on.

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With Jonny Bairstow (21) one of only two other England batsmen to reach double figures, the other being Archer with 12, England’s captain hit 84 from 51 deliveries in a knock that included three maximums.

“What an amazing shot!” 🎙ï¸Â

England and Buttler are starting to accelerate now ⚡︠pic.twitter.com/hLcuFeOXss

— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) May 25, 2024

After seeing England reach 183-7, Pakistan were dealt an abysmal start as Mohammad Rizwan departed for a third-ball duck, Saim Ayub soon following for two.

Babar Azam (32) and Fakhar Zaman (45) blasted nine fours and three sixes between them to keep Pakistan in the match, yet wickets were being lost at regular intervals.

Six England bowlers chipped in with wickets, with Reece Topley the pick with 3-41, but Moeen Ali‘s 2-26 on familiar territory for the veteran all-rounder also proved crucial.

Pakistan lost their final wicket with four balls remaining ahead of the third of fourth matches taking place in Cardiff on Tuesday night.

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