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England bowl in India ODI series-decider
LEEDS, United Kingdom, July 17, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – England captain Eoin
Morgan won the toss and elected to field in the third and deciding one-day
international against India at Headingley on Tuesday.
England made one change to the side that won the second ODI by 86 runs on
Saturday, with Hampshire batsman James Vince replacing Jason Roy after the
opener suffered a finger injury while fielding at Lord’s.
Vince was listed to open, having last played an ODI in October 2016, but
he has been in superb white-ball form for Hampshire this season, leading the
south coast county to the domestic One-Day Cup title and scoring 171 in their
semi-final win over Yorkshire.
India made three changes with paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar fit following a
back injury.
Kumar and Shardul Thakur replaced fellow seamers Umesh Yadav and Siddarth
Kaul, with batsman Dinesh Karthik coming in for KL Rahul.
This three-match series was all square at 1-1 after India won the first
ODI at Trent Bridge last week by eight wickets.
With five Yorkshire players — Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, David Willey,
Liam Plunkett and Adil Rashid — in the England side for Tuesday’s match at
the county’s Leeds headquarters, home captain Eoin Morgan had plenty of local
knowledge to call upon at the toss.
“It’s a really good wicket — international wickets at Headingley have
always been good to us in the past and we’re expecting the same for 100 overs
today,” said Morgan.
“Vince comes in for Roy, he has been in fantastic form for Hampshire and
he deserves his opportunity,” he added.
Meanwhile India captain Virat Kohli, also speaking at the toss, said: “We
wanted to bat first.
“It looks like it (the pitch) will break up in the second half of the
game. There’s not much grass on it and we expect the spinners to come into
the game.”
India were bidding for their 10th successive bilateral ODI series win,
with 2019 World Cup hosts England looking to treat Tuesday’s match as the
kind of winner-takes-all knockout match they will hope to play during next
year’s global showpiece event.
For all England are number one in the ODI rankings, doubts remain about
their ability to win knockout games at this level.
England have never won the World Cup — the most recent of their three
losing appearances in the final was back in 1992 — and their defeat by
eventual champions Pakistan at Cardiff in the semi-finals of last year’s
Champions Trophy was their 13th loss in 19 knockout fixtures in one-day
tournaments, the worst record of any major country.
Teams
England: James Vince, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan (capt), Jos
Buttler (wkt), Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali, David Willey, Liam Plunkett, Adil
Rashid, Mark Wood
India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli (capt), Dinesh Karthik,
MS Dhoni (wkt), Suresh Raina, Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar
Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal
Umpires: Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SRI), Michael Gough (ENG)
TV umpire: Bruce Oxenford (AUS)
Match referee: David Boon (AUS)
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