It was a day when things did not go too well for India in the series-deciding ODI match at Headingley here yesterday. England captain Eoin Morgan had no hesitation in putting India in to bat on a gloomy, cloudy day. In trying conditions, India kept losing wickets at regular intervals, and thus failed to post a total (256-8) formidable enough to put their rivals under any kind of pressure.

England with a solid batting line-up were not going to be shackled unless the spinners wove their magic and as they failed to do so, England, riding on a 186-run partnership between Joe Root (100 not out) and Morgan (88 not out), cruised along with confidence to win the match comfortably by eight wickets and 33 balls to spare and in the process clinched the ODI series 2-1, after India had won the T20I series by the same margin.