Twitter reacts as India beat England to win first ODI series of Kohli era
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Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni rescued India after a poor start with a 256-run partnership for the fourth wicket and helped the hosts to a mammoth total of 381 runs in the second ODI at Cuttack. Despite a couple of cracking knocks from Jason Roy and Eoin Morgan, England fell short by 15 runs in the end.
Brief Scores: India 381/6 in 50 overs (Yuvraj Singh 150(127), MS Dhoni 134(122); Chris Woakes 4/60, Liam Plunkett 2/91) defeated England 366/8 in 50 overs (Eoin Morgan 102(81), Jason Roy 82(73); R Ashwin 3/65, Bumrah 2/81) by 15 runs
England won the toss this time, and they decided to chase. An understandable decision considering how ineffective their bowling looked in the last match. India made one change to their lineup from the first match at Pune with Umesh Yadav being replaced by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. England, on the other hand, dropped their spinner Adil Rashid and replaced him with right-arm fast bowler Liam Plunkett.
"It will be like the old days playing with him (Dhoni) when we had started,” Yuvraj had said earlier this month. Of course, he was going to act on it as well, much to England’s peril.
Dhoni and Yuvraj put on a partnership of 256 runs – the highest for the fourth wicket against England in the ODIs. Yuvraj nicked one to the keeper in the 43rd over after scoring 150, while Dhoni was caught in the deep while trying to muscle a full toss over the deep square leg. But riding on it, India managed to post 381 runs on the board.Sums up his Bio!
Hardik Pandya is an all rounder. He is a batsman like Shikhar Dhawan and a bowler like Ishant Sharma.
— Sagar (@sagarcasm) January 19, 2017
With this bowling, even 450 is less!
381/6. Indian bowling attack: "we are 20 runs short" #INDvENG
— cricBC (@cricBC) January 19, 2017
Second ODI in a single pic!
Match summary so far. #INDvENG pic.twitter.com/6inYPQsjxj
— Rofl Gandhi (@RoflGandhi_) January 19, 2017
That's the MAHI way!
Bowlers pause before bowling a ball, Dhoni pauses before stumping players. #INDvENG
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) January 19, 2017
We want CSK back!
Buttler stumped by some CSK nostalgia #INDvENG
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) January 19, 2017
Why is Jadeja suddenly behaving like Claudio Bravo?
— Samir Bhatia (@SamirBhatia8) January 19, 2017
High time he is dropped!
Even Jadeja is dropping catches but BCCI isn't dropping Shikhar Dhawan.#INDvENG
— Jaanvi 🏏 (@imVjaanvi) January 19, 2017
Can Bhuvi swing it back?
cuttack mein bhubaneswar ka raj#IndvsEng
— OK जानु (@Shararatibachha) January 19, 2017
No change in Dhawan's
Run out miss by Dhoni, catch dropped by Jadeja. 2017 is already bad.#INDvENG
— Jaanvi 🏏 (@imVjaanvi) January 19, 2017
Like every Indian match in the last decade!
This match is going to be another classical Indian batsmen vs Indian bowlers game!! #INDvENG
— Sameer Allana (@HitmanCricket) January 19, 2017
What was that from the umpire?
Dharmasena Review System Activated #INDvENG
— Balaji (@Balaji_201) January 19, 2017
England is missing Ishant though!
73 Needed Of 30 Balls. Required Run Rate 14.60. Anyone Missing Me? #INDvENG #IndvsEng
— Sir Ishant Sharma (@SirIshantSharma) January 19, 2017
Hope! They don't!
#INDvENG wondering if Cuttack crowd decides to indulge in their fav sport- bottle throwing, is India ahead on DL method?
— Sharath M (@sharathMiyer) January 19, 2017
That throw did not impress him!
LOL. Dhoni didn't like the finish. He wanted Bhumrah to show more composure. #IndvEng
— cricBC (@cricBC) January 19, 2017
More than 700 runs scored!
As kids we used to say, chalo Bat-Ball khelte hain. These days they just play Bat-Bat. #IndvEng
— cricBC (@cricBC) January 19, 2017
