Trent Bridge: India's bowlers, batsmen put on stellar show to thrash England

Nottingham Indias spinners again proved Englands undoing as the tourists won the third Oneday International at Trent Bridge on Saturday by six wickets to take a 20 lead in the fivematch seriesWorld champions India chasing a modest 228 for victory cruised to 228 for four with seven overs to spareAmbati Rayudu only playing because of Rohit Sharmas tourending finger injury was an ODIbest 64 not outTogether with Suresh Raina who followed up his 100 in Indias equally dominant 133run victory in Cardiff on Wednesday with a runaball 42 Rayudu put on 87 for the fourth wicketMS Dhoni and R AshwinBut it was the first innings that decided the course of the match with England dismissed for a meagre 227 after losing the tossThey were 82 without loss thanks to underfire captain Alastair Cook 44 and Alex Hales 42But England as happened in Cardiff again succumbed to spin as they lost three wickets for 15 runs in six overs to be 97 for threeOffspinner Ravichandran Ashwin thr manofthematch took three for 39 with only Jos Buttler 42 apart from Cook and Hales passing 40 in the inningsEngland managed just one four in 26 overs midway through their innings and didnt hit a six until the last overCook and Hales posted their second fifty partnership off 64 balls in as many matchesBut their stand ended when Hales on his Nottinghamshire home ground topedged a sweep off spinbowling allrounder Rainas sixth ball and was caught by India captain and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh DhoniIt was the second time in as many matches that Hales who made 40 on ODI debut in Cardiff had fallen to the sweep shotHis exit was the cue for England to once more get bogged down against slow bowlingOccasional spinner Rayudu took his first international wicket when he speared one down the legside to have Cook stumped by DhoniCook whom former England teammate Graeme Swann suggested this week should quit Oneday cricket because he scores too slowly took 65 balls to get his runs on SaturdayDhoni was involved again when he stumped Joe Root two after the batsman lunged forward to leftarm spinner Ravindra JadejaEoin Morgan 10 was also undone by spin Ashwin turning the ball away from the left hander and Dhoni holding the edge to complete his fourth dismissal of the inningsAn ambling Ian Bell 28 was then run out by Mohit Sharmas dramatic direct hit from wide longoffAllrounder Ben Stokes two added to his growing list of low scores for England when Raina held a brilliant low onehanded slip catch off AshwinStokess exit left England 149 for six and unsurprisingly the lower order could not repair the damageAjinkya Rahane promoted to open in place of Rohit Sharma showed his class with a textbook coverdriven four off James AndersonVirat Kohli who averaged just 134 in Indias preceding 31 Test series defeat and was out for a duck on Wednesday drove offspinner James Tredwell for six in the 13th overRahane then lofted Stokes high over longoff for six to the delight of the India fans in a 17000 sellout crowdBut he was out for 45 when fast bowler Steven Finn playing his first international match in nearly a year had Rahane caught behind as he tried to run the ball down to third manAnd Kohlis promising 50ball innings of 40 his best international score of the tour ended when he somehow flicked Stokes straight to Tredwell at midonStokes then gave Kohli a verbal sendoff which prompted a warning from umpires Paul Reiffel and Michael GoughIndia were now 120 for three but the rarely troubled Rayudu went on to complete an impressive fifty when he deliberately uppercut Finn for his fifth four in 63 ballsThe series continues at Birminghams Edgbaston ground on Tuesday