Match report
The player of the match, sure enough, is Reece Topley. He’s the second England bowler ever to take an ODI six-for, after Chris Woakes, who has done it twice – but not as thriftily as Topley, who grabbed six for 24.
“It means a lot,” he says. “It makes it all worthwhile, to be honest. It was just over that stand that I had surgery three years ago,” he adds, waving towards the Wellington Hospital. “It’s everyone’s dream to play for England and I just want to pull on the shirt as often as I can.”
He’s a bit tongue-tied in the spotlight, but that doesn’t matter because his bowling did the talking today. He made fabulous use of the bounce in a sporting pitch, and his delight, as you’ll see if you scroll down, made some great pictures. A word, though, for Yuzvendra Chahal, the player of the first half of the match. He didn’t deserve to finish on the wrong end of a drubbing.
That’s it from us. Thanks for your company and correspondence, and do join us at 11am on Sunday for the final episode of this fast-moving drama.
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And here’s Jos Buttler. “I’m delighted with the response from the guys,” he says. “We didn’t bat at our best but we still put together a score, and the way the guys bowled, I thought, was outstanding. The two guys [Topley and Willey] set the tone.” Has someone dared him to say “guys” in every sentence?
“Traditionally it has been a bat-first pitch here,” he adds, “so it was hard to know what to do at the toss, though I would have bowled first too.” Among the batters, he picks out David Willey and Moeen Ali, who “put together a great partnership”. Tis true: this was the kind of game that can be won with a stand of 62. And a guy who grabs a six-for.
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Here’s Rohit Sharma. “We bowled pretty well,” he reckons, “to restrict a team like that to under 250 was a good effort. But we didn’t bat well. When conditions are challenging, we need to adapt.”
“For years,” says Tom van der Gucht, “the ODI team was treated as an international training ground for the Test team. Then Morgan happened... Since then, they are virtually two distinct entities. But, I’d love it if Topley used his recent short-form, er, form to force his way into the Test team as a much-needed point of difference in the bowling attack.” Yes, they could do with a leftie. But the two sides are suddenly looking much more alike, aren’t they? Except that the Test team score faster.
It’s also very good for the series – in fact vital. England, who were staring down the barrel of another 2-0 when they sank to 102 for five, have bounced back to make it 1-1. The decider is on Sunday at Old Trafford.
The player of the match will be Reece Topley, but had he not grabbed all those wickets, it might have been David Willey, who made a fighting 41, removed Virat Kohli and could easily have had a three-for.
So England follow a ten-wicket defeat with a resounding 100-run victory. It’s a triumph not just for Topley, who will grab all the headlines, but for Jos Buttler, whose every bowling change turned to gold; for Matthew Mott, who refused to change a losing side; and for Moeen Ali. His determined innings of 47 was worth twice that on a day when nobody else reached 40 and no Indian managed 30.
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England win by 100 runs!
Wicket! Krishna c Buttler b Topley 0 (India 146 all out) It’s all over. Topley has six! And not just that – he’s got the best figures ever achieved by an England bowler in 51 years of ODIs. Six for 24. He leads the team off the field, having the best day of his life.
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WICKET! Chahal b Topley 3 (India 145-9)
Topley gets that five-for! His yorker is far too good for Chahal, and Topley’s tall frame is now topped with a broad smile. He brandishes the white ball, savouring the moment, as well he may after fighting back from some miserable injuries.
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38th over: India 145-8 (Bumrah 2, Chahal 3) Livingstone has a retort to Gary Naylor’s one-liner: he bowls a leg-break to Bumrah that turns enough to take the edge, though it lands safely in the covers.
37th over: India 141-8 (Bumrah 1, Chahal 0) Topley continues, bowling his ninth over. He keeps it tight but can’t get that fifth wicket – something no England bowler has done in an ODI at Lord’s since 1997, Mike Atherton says, and he should know as he was England captain then. It was Darren Gough who did it, in the match against Australia that is better remembered for Ben Hollioake’s first fine carefree fifty.
“Liam Livingstone is so versatile,” says Gary Naylor on Twitter. “Against right handers, he fails to turn his leg break and against left handers, he fails to turn his off break.” Good line!
36th over: India 140-8 (Bumrah 0, Chahal 0) So Livingstone starts with a wicket maiden, and Buttler has a smile on his face that is almost as wide as he one he had this time three years ago.
WICKET! Jadeja b Livingstone 28 (India 140-8)
One brings two! Liam Livingstone’s first ball is a yorker that startles Jadeja and rattles the timbers.
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35th over: India 140-7 (Jadeja 29, Bumrah 0) So Topley is still the top gun: he now has four for 22, his best in ODIs.
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WICKET! Shami c Stokes b Topley 23 (India 140-7)
The breakthrough! Back comes Topley and off goes Shami. This time the slower ball does bamboozle him: he takes it on the full and just plops it up in the air, like Pant, but more so. Stokes has some ground to cover running in from deep mid-on but he manages it with aplomb.
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34th over: India 138-6 (Jadeja 28, Shami 22) Carse bowls Shami a classy slower ball that is also a yorker. Shami, rather to my surprise, is equal to it, adding a dead bat to his repertoire. England’s last five wickets yielded more runs than their first five (144 to 102), and India’s are close to emulating them (65 to 73). It’s the battle of the reversible batting orders.
33rd over: India 136-6 (Jadeja 27, Shami 21) Shami launches Willey so high in the air that the ball may well show up on that fancy new telescope. When it comes down again, it lands safely in the deep, and another two are added to the tally. Shami reckons he can win this.
“So,” says Brendan Large, “if you go by the old adage that you take the score after 30 overs and double it...we’re going to a Super Over! Yay!” We would be, if there was a Super Over in the regs for this game. Perhaps the so-called Super League couldn’t cope with the competition.
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32nd over: India 131-6 (Jadeja 25, Shami 18) Although most of the batters have got in today, only two have managed a fifty partnership – Moeen and David Willey, who added 62 for England’s seventh wicket. I have a feeling Jadeja and Shami might do it too. They’re on 30 already and Carse has just dropped Shami – a tricky caught-and-bowled chance, low to his left.
31st over: India 128-6 (Jadeja 23, Shami 17) Off goes Overton (7-0-22-0) and back comes Willey, who goes for five singles.
“What does one make of this obsession with willies?” asks Kim Thonger. “Thatcher: ‘every prime minister needs a Willie’. Penny Mordaunt: ‘I think it was Margaret Thatcher who said that every Prime Minister needs a willy. A woman like me doesn’t have one.’ Buttler, very likely, in his post-match interview this evening: ‘every England captain needs a Willey’.”
30th over: India 123-6 (Jadeja 20, Shami 15) Jadeja works Moeen around, cannily. Shami’s not inclined to follow suit: he goes on the charge and lofts an off-drive for six. After 30 overs, India are just about halfway, which is how things used to be done circa 1986.
29th over: India 112-6 (Jadeja 16, Shami 8) Overton bangs it in to Shami, who throws the bat and gets a top edge for four. The next ball, slightly fuller, brings a great big air shot. If you went to a gig with Shami, I suspect you’d witness a fair amount of air guitar. But you’d have some fun too.
28th over: India 105-6 (Jadeja 15, Shami 4) ... But Mohammed Shami has other ideas. It was largely thanks to him that last time we saw the Indian tail in action at Lord’s, in the Test last summer, England had a nightmare. He opens his account here with more of the same – an off-blast for four. But Moeen won’t mind that: he has the crucial wicket of Pandya.
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WICKET! Pandya c Livingstone b Moeen 29 (India 101-6)
Big moment! Pandya tries to swing Moeen for six but, unlike Jadeja, he’s aiming for the long boundary, out towards the Grandstand. Livingstone makes no mistake and that should be curtains for India.
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27th over: India 101-5 (Pandya 29, Jadeja 15) After that blow to his figures from the four off the periscope, Overton goes back to his happy place, dots and singles. He hasn’t taken wickets like Topley and Willey, but he has matched their parsimony – they’ve all gone for fewer than three runs an over.
26th over: India 99-5 (Pandya 28, Jadeja 14) That pat on the hat may have woken Jadeja up. He swings Moeen into the Mound stand for six with no apparent effort, handing him a dose of his own medicine.
25th over: India 91-5 (Pandya 27, Jadeja 7) Topley (7-2-20-3) hands over to Overton, who isn’t allowing any boundaries – except by fluke. Jadeja, ducking a bouncer, leaves his bat up like a periscope and gets four as the ball hits his helmet, then the bat, and evades Buttler’s leap. They all count.
At the halfway stage, India have lost half their wickets, and got just over a third of the runs.
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24th over: India 84-5 (Pandya 25, Jadeja 2) And here is some spin as Moeen comes on from the Nursery end. He has a slip for Jadeja, because his off breaks move away from the left-hander, but there’s a more defensive field for Pandya. Will Pandya take the chance to attack? He will. He gives Moeen the charge and hits a thundering straight drive. That is only his second four, from 35 balls now.
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23rd over: India 77-5 (Pandya 19, Jadeja 1) Another set of testing lifters from Topley, another over going for just a single. We’ve seen no spin yet from England, but Buttler will only be able to keep that up if Stokes is fitter than he looked on Tuesday.
“Lively coverage on obo from Lord’s Tim!” says Sy Clopp (possibly not their real name) on Twitter. Too kind. “In re: thesis about the decision making by umpires (13th over), I read one on same theme. It’s from QUT at the other end of the world, titled ‘When in doubt it is not out - lbw decision-making in elite-level cricket umpires’.” Ha, We need to know if there’s a third one out there: then it’ll officially be a trend.
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22nd over: India 76-5 (Pandya 18, Jadeja 1) Overton, like Jadeja, is a fine supporting actor. He reels off some more dots, beats Jadeja outside off and moves smoothly to figures of 4-0-8-0.
21st over: India 75-5 (Pandya 17, Jadeja 1) So Topley has three for 19 and England are now firm favourites. But Ravi Jadeja is an accomplished straight man, as he showed in the Test match, and Pandya is still there. Buttler, sniffing another scalp, summons Joe Root to slip.
“Trying to listen to TMS in my pub shed with a beer,” says David Gillson, “whilst following the OBO of course. I’m sure my family are messing with my smart speaker in the pub shed (the black lobster) from the kitchen – as that bloody Spaceman euro song keeps starting to play. Can you ask them to pack it in?”
WICKET! Yadav b Topley 16 (India 73-5)
Yadav drags it on! That’s a third wicket for Reece Topley, and another feather in the cap of Jos Buttler, who brought him back and gave him one job: to break this partnership.
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20th over: India 73-4 (Yadav 27, Pandya 16) Craig Overton, the sensible one in this team as well as in his family, restores order with three dots. Then he beats Yadav with a fiery bouncer, too sharp for the attempted pull, which could have been bowled by his twin.
A caption tells us that England were 99-4 at this stage. Little did we realise how well they were doing.
19th over: India 70-4 (Yadav 25, Pandya 15) It’s been an age since we had a six – so Yadav dishes one up now, flicking Carse’s lifter over his shoulder as if doing something superstitious with the salt. Some batters would rest on those laurels for the remainder of the over, but Yadav, so busy as well as so elegant, clips for two and square-drives for a single. He has faced no more deliveries than Dhawan, Kohli or Pandya (all 24 to 26), but he’s made far more runs.
18th over: India 60-4 (Yadav 16, Pandya 14) It was Craig Overton who replaced Willey just before drinks, I should have said. He’s a solid fourth seamer and he keeps the pressure on, conceding only a single off this over. India need 188 off 32 overs, not quite a run a ball but close. The bigger issue is the wickets column.
17th over: India 59-4 (Yadav 16, Pandya 13) Carse continues, bounding in and finding plenty of life in this sporting pitch. One ball thuds into Yadav’s pad and persuades Buttler to review, a decision he might not have taken if he could hear the commentators. “Too high,” Mark Butcher said straight away, and he was spot-on.
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16th over: India 57-4 (Yadav 15, Pandya 12) Are you old enough to remember when England’s best chance of a wicket in this series was a run-out? They nearly get one now as Willey – finally taking a breather – shies at the non-striker’s end from midwicket and misses by this much.
That’s drinks, with England well on top, but these two just beginning to rebuild.
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15th over: India 54-4 (Yadav 13, Pandya 11) While attacking with his bowling decisions, Buttler has been uncharacteristically defensive with his fields. Carse has no slip now and the field is spread, so the batters help themselves to four singles in a row, and then Pandya, with his eye in, check-drives the last ball for four.
“Today,” says Abhijato Sensarma, “will test another facet of SKY’s game, unique to the fifty-over format - how well can he survive in tough conditions while facing a limited number of overs, with a target to chase, and the option of hitting ever ball for ridiculous boundaries not being the most optimal way to go about it? A temperament test for Hardik 3.0 too, if the pair sticks around for a while to lead a recovery before shifting gears!”
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14th over: India 46-4 (Yadav 11, Pandya 5) Willey’s reward for culling Kohli is a seventh over on the trot, as Jos Buttler shows a refreshing willingness to rip up the captain’s handbook. Willey lets Yadav cut for two and clip for a single, but then beats Pandya with a rip-snorter.
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13th over: India 42-4 (Yadav 8, Pandya 4) With Carse still wondering how he persuaded Pant to play beach cricket, Pandya plays his first attacking shot – a punch into the covers for three that bounces like a serve in ping-pong.
“Hello Tim,” says Ian Francis. Hello Ian! “I’ve just been in a graduation ceremony at Liverpool John Moores University, keeping a sneaky eye on the score. PhD subjects in the programme included Money Laundering, Sex Tourism, and ‘Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise in Cricket Umpires during Leg Before Wicket Decision Making.’” Magnificent.
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12th over: India 38-4 (Yadav 7, Pandya 1) All is not lost for India, because Hardik Pandya is a hell of a competitor and he’s at the peak of his career so far after leading Gujarat Titans to the IPL in their first season. Suryakumar Yadav can play a bit too – after that fine hundred in defeat in the final T20 game, he carries on where he left off with a handsome straight drive. But that over belongs to David Willey (6-2-13-1) – and to Jos Buttler for giving him such a long spell.
WICKET! Kohli c Buttler b Willey 16 (India 31-4)
The big one! Willey feeds Kohli the wobble-seamer, wobbling down the slope, and he can’t resist a nibble. India are making a right old mess of this. Are you England in disguise?
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11th over: India 31-3 (Kohli 16, Yadav 1) That is such a vital wicket that it turns WinViz’s forecast upside-down: now it’s England 59pc, India 40. Phil Salt had only just come on, replacing Topley who trotted off for running repairs.
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WICKET! Pant c sub (Salt) b Carse 0 (India 29-3)
Well Pant doesn’t hang around... and he isn’t hanging around now, as he’s just plopped a full toss to mid-on. That was like a mum on the beach trying to make it easy for her eight-year-old.
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10th over: India 28-2 (Kohli 14, Pant 0) There’s a bit of chat between Kohli and Willey, though not enough to bother Alex Wharf, the umpire, across whom they are talking. I wonder if Willey is as tough as his old man, who was tougher than old boots.
The PowerPlay ends with India giving us an old-school scoreboard, and England on top – though WinViz still fancies India’s chances, by 56 per cent to 43.
9th over: India 27-2 (Kohli 13, Pant 0) Facing his 23rd ball, Dhawan had just hit his first four – by dancing down the track and turning a Topley yorker into a full toss – so perhaps complacency set in. Anyway, both openers have gone, and here’s Rishabh Pant, who will surely not feel like singing from this Eighties songbook.
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WICKET! Dhawan c Buttler b Topley 9 (India 27-2)
And here is the second wicket – a =right old strangle, as Dhawan gets a tickle to a poor ball, but just deserts for the bowlers’ exacting excellence hitherto.
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8th over: India 23-1 (Dhawan 5, Kohli 13) Willey, keeping a tight line, continues not to go for boundaries: just three singles off this over. Dear Younger Reader, this is what one-day cricket was like from 1971 to 1995.
7th over: India 20-1 (Dhawan 3, Kohli 12) On Tuesday, Topley bowled well apart from one over, which was a shocker. He threatens to repeat himself now as he again goes too full to Kohli, giving him an easy straight drive followed by an even easier off drive. Bang it in, man! For the rest of the over, he does, and the consequence is four dots. England still on top, but Kohli can see the chance to change that.
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6th over: India 12-1 (Dhawan 3, Kohli 4) Dhawan flicks Willey for two as Topley makes a good save, a beanpole on skates. Willey hasn’t got a wicket yet but you can’t argue with figures of 3-2-2-0.
Up on the Indian balcony, the camera finds Yuzvendra Chahal chewing his nails. Lord’s is a picture in the evening sun, but as Eoin Morgan points out, it’s not an easy place to chase.
5th over: India 10-1 (Dhawan 1, Kohli 4) We finally have a run off the bat as Dhawan shovels Topley to mid-off. Then Topley bowls his first bad ball, a floaty half-volley, and Kohli, with a crisp straight drive, is up and not running.
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4th over: India 5-1 (Dhawan 0, Kohli 0) And another maiden! From Willey to Kohli, who’s itching to assert himself but can’t find the gaps, or his timing. Maybe India have decided to get ’em in leg-byes.
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3rd over: India 5-1 (Dhawan 0, Kohli 0) The runs have all been leg-byes, so Topley has followed his maiden with a wicket maiden: 2-2-0-1. England need to go hell for leather here: if India make it to 45 overs, they’ll surely knock off the runs.
WICKET! Rohit lbw Topley 0 (India 4-1)
Got one at last! After rattling Rohit with his bounce, Topley raps him on the pad and the finger goes up. Rohit reviews, as you would, but it’s three reds because the ball pitched on leg stump and was hitting the top of off, in the classical manner.
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2nd over: India 0-0 (Rohit 0, Dhawan 0) Anything Topley can do, Willey can do too. After making a fine, fighting 40, Willey matches his fellow leftie’s maiden, and thinks about reviewing an LBW shout against Dhawan. “Very good start from England,” says Nasser Hussain, who doesn’t bestow high praise lightly.
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1st over: India 0-0 (Rohit 0, Dhawan 0) So England set off in search of their first wicket of the series, and once again they face the opening maestros they couldn’t separate at the Oval. Here, just like there, the biggest danger is a run-out. Liam Livingstone swoops in the covers to send Shikhar Dhawan scurrying back to the non-striker’s end. The bowler is Reece Topley and he gets some steep bounce outside off to stop Rohit Sharma being too regal too soon.
Afternoon everyone and thanks Jim. Not an easy innings to assess, that one. India will have been the happier team as they sat down to their high tea: the star of the show was undoubtedly Yuzvendra Chahal. England dug themselves into a hole (102 for five) and climbed some of the way out again (144 for the last five). So many batters got a start – all bar Root and Buttler – that it feels as if they should have made 280. But we’ve seen England scrape 240 at Lord’s before and live to tell the tale.
One day in 2019, I forget the occasion, they made 241 and it was just enough. One day last summer, with Ben Stokes directing a cast of understudies, they made 247 and won by a not very bare margin. So this isn’t over yet. But England will miss Adil Rashid, never mind Chris Woakes and Mark Wood. Time for some more understudies to step into the spotlight. See you shortly.
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That’s my lot too, Tim de Lisle will be along shortly to tenderly take your hand and guide you through India’s reply. I’ll be back on the OBO tools on Sunday, until then it is goodbye from me.
WICKET! Topley b Bumrah 3 (England 246 All Out)
That’s yer lot! Bumrah bowls a timber-seaking missile that knocks back Topley’s off pole.
A bit of a laboured innings then from England and they’ll do very well to restrict this gun Indian batting line-up from hunting it down.
We set India 247 to win.
— England Cricket (@englandcricket) July 14, 2022
Can we defend it?
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48th over: England 242-9 (Overton 8, Topley 2) Reece Topley is England’s last man and he’s off the mark with a hack glide for two into the off side. Two overs to go.
WICKET! Carse lbw b Krishna 2 (England 240-9)
Carse is felled right in front of the stumps, a ball from Krishna thudding into his, err, upper thigh region. A belated appeal sees him given, he limps off without review.
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WICKET! Willey ct Iyer b Bumrah 41 (England 237-8)
Shot! Willey hooks Bumrah into the stands for SIX! That went well into the crowd, dare say Dave will dream of that this evening. Willey aims another big smear but doesn’t get hold of it, they scamper a second. Bumrah bowls a cutter that Willey bunts straight to Shreyas Iyer at long-off who takes the catch on the juggle. Decent knock from Willey to keep England breathing.
The average score at Lord’s in the last ten ODIs is 269, England might wind up short of that here.
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46th over: England 227-7 (Willey 32, Overton 7) Pandya bowls a probing over, COverton can’t seem to pick him up. A couple of inside edges brings a fortunate five runs.
45th over: England 220-7 (Willey 30, Overton 6) Shami finishes his stint and ends up with 1-48. He could easily have picked up three or four more. Five to go!
44th over: England 215-7 (Willey 27, Overton 2) Chahal completes his ten overs and finishes up with 4-47. Bairstow, Root, Stokes and Ali in his knapsack. Well bowled!
The best-ever figures for India in a Lord's ODI.
— Wisden (@WisdenCricket) July 14, 2022
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43rd over: England 213-7 (Willey 26, Overton 1) Shami is miserly and England can only eke three runs off his over.
WICKET! Moeen Ali ct Jadeja b Chahal 47 (England 210-7)
Chahal into his ninth over and he gets his fourth wicket by tossing up a 44mph looper to Ali who holes out to Jadeja in the deep! Just as Mo was starting to open the shoulders, partnership broken.
42nd over: England 210-7 (Willey 25, Overton 0)
41st over: England 208-6 (Ali 46, Willey 25) Moeen swipes Bumrah for a huge six into the stands! Bumrah tightens up for the rest of the over and gives away just a single. Things are starting to simmer...
40th over: England 201-6 (Ali 39, Willey 25) The FIFTY partnership between Ali and Willey is notched up with a thick outside edge off a Shami full bunger running away for four. Hardik Pandya nearly clings on to a looping catch at mid-wicket but the ball just grazes his fingers. Ten overs to go.
39th over: England 194-6 (Ali 38, Willey 20) Bumrah back on with four overs in his tank. Moeen drives him for a single, Willey cuts a slightly frustrated figure as the next three deliveries are dots. The south-paw throws his hands at a bouncer though and gets it away fine for four to relieve a bit of that pent up tension.
38th over: England 189-6 (Ali 37, Willey 16) Ali sweeps Chahal powerfully for four. The canny spinner then tosses one up at 44mph. The next is 57mph, he’s showing all his trickery here and gets out of the over well.
37th over: England 184-6 (Ali 32, Willey 16) Krishna drops short and Mo carts him into the stands for SIX! Feels like they fancy Prasidh as the man to target here. Three singles follow before Willey hooks the last ball for SIX too! Positive from England. 15 runs off the over.
36th over: England 169-6 (Ali 24, Willey 9) Chahal back on, he has 3-39 from his six overs so far. England have only scored 21 runs from the past 42 deliveries. They can’t get the leggie away here, just two from the over. On we go.
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35th over: England 167-6 (Ali 23, Willey 8) Ali climbs into a short one and swivel-pulls it for four. The rest of the over is quiet though, just a couple of nurdled singles. 15 overs to go, what will England be hoping for here?
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34th over: England 161-6 (Ali 18, Willey 7) How long before Moeen cuts loose? Just two singles off Jadeja’s darts.
33rd over: England 159-6 (Ali 17, Willey 6) Becalmed air to the cricket as the sun beats down. Just three off Prasidh as Ali and Willey rein themselves in. There are a ton of overs left and not a lot of batting in the hutch.
32nd over: England 155-6 (Ali 16, Willey 4) Jadeja rattles through another in the blink of an eye. Just three from it. Prasidh is called back on for a bowl to atone for his drop.
31st over: England 153-6 (Ali 15, Willey 2) DROP! Pandya goes short again and Willey plops it straight to Prasidh in the deep but he shells it! That’s India’s first mistake today.
30th over: England 151-6 (Ali 14, Willey 1) When the commentators list the England batting order I keep being reminded of this little guy: “Willie, Carse...”
Willey is off the mark with a flick to mid-wicket, just three runs off Jadeja’s latest.
WICKET! Livingstone ct Iyer b Pandya 33 (England 148-6)
Livingstone smeared a six and a four off Pandya short balls before trying once too many times and holing out to Iyer on the mid-wicket boundary.
Time for a quick drink.
29th over: England 148-6 (Ali 12, Willey 0)
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28th over: England 133-5 (Livingstone 21, Ali 11) Steady accumulation off Jadeja. Four runs to the total. Jimmy Anderson is on TMS and he reckons 270 is a decent place for England to aim.
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27th over: England 127-5 (Livingstone 17, Ali 10) Hardik Pandya is called upon and its just three off the over as this pair look to re-build after the flurry of wickets.
26th over: England 126-5 (Livingstone 17, Ali 9) An OBO scribes’ worst nightmare, Ravi Jadeja, is into the attack and true to form he whistles through his over. England rotate to take five runs off it.
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25th over: England 121-5 (Livingstone 16, Ali 5) A glorious on-drive for four by Livingstone off Bumrah, the ball skating away between the stumps and Moeen Ali at the non-strikers end.
24th over: England 116-5 (Livingstone 12, Ali 4) Eleven runs off the over including a mighty SIX off Chahal’s first ball, smote over wide mid-on from Livi.
23rd over: England 105-5 (Livingstone 4, Ali 2) Bumrah is back with a slip in. India want to prise open the tail.
East London’s handsomest Tim ‘sweet baby’ Sowula txts in from the Warner Stand, he hasn’t been on the OBO since 2006/7 apparently but is a couple of bottles of something fruity deep.
“At what point can I cancel childcare?” I reckon don’t Tim. Make the most of it, even if the cricket is over at 5pm. Remember that time you fell asleep on the district line and pinged back and forth between Ealing and Upminster? I still chuckle about that.
22nd over: England 103-5 (Livingstone 2, Ali 1) Moeen gets off the mark straight away but England are in strife. India going for the kill, Bumrah is summoned...
WICKET! Stokes lbw b Chahal 21 (England 102-5)
Uh-oh. Stokes lives and dies by the reverse sweep. Chahal skids one on and Stokes misses completely, the ball striking his haunches bang in front. The review doesn’t save him and the leggie has 3-25.
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21st over: England 101-4 (Stokes 21, Livingstone 2) Shami is bowling excellently here, he’s extracting pace and bounce and keeping the destructive Livingstone tied down.
The redoubtable Guy Hornsby emails in:
“Afternoon James. In the words of the great Marvin Gaye, what’s going on? Just as the Test teams transformation has been stark, it’s like our white ball teams are suddenly wading through molasses, Netherlands tour aside.”
Excellent use of molasses, might steal that Guy.
“As for 2019, what a madcap day it was. Seems far away after the first ODI I can tell you! I idiotically booked a weekend away at the time as I didn’t think we’d make the final. I watched bits on flaky internet on the train from London, glued to TMS on the tram back to Sale and then lost my mind at the last hours on TV with my confused toddler as I shouted at the screen. I still get shivers from the last hour. The barest of margins indeed.”
Lovely stuff.
20th over: England 99-4 (Stokes 21, Livingstone 1) Ben Stokes plays a ridiculous reverse sweep that traces away to the square boundary at warp speed. He nailed that. He tries another and doesn’t get it but that doesn’t stop him... Chahal tosses one up and Stokes plays another reverse for four, finer this time and more paddled. Stokes tries for four in a row but fails to connect. You have to laugh. Fifth ball is driven to mid-on for a single. “Boring” drawls Mark Butcher on commentary. Livingstone is off the mark with a punched single.
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19th over: England 87-4 (Stokes 10, Livingstone 0) Shami well and truly has his dander up and his first ball to Livingstone is a brute - it spits like a tempestuous camel and crunches into Livingstone’s grille. A break for a concussion test but we’re good to continue. Crikey! Very next ball Livingstone charges Shami but fails to connect. Never a backward step etc etc
WICKET! Buttler b Shami 4 (England 87-4)
Gone! Shami cleans up Buttler with a full yorker, Jos falling over slightly down the slope and getting his feet in a muddle. England FOUR down.
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18th over: England 84-3 ( Stokes 8, Buttler 2) Captain Buttler comes to the crease with his team sppppluttering once more. He’s off the mark with a drive past point.
WICKET! Root lbw b Chahal 11 (England 82-3)
Root misses a sweep and it looks plumb, Chahal even lets out a little giggle as he appeals and umpire Kettleborough raises the digit of doom. Root burns a review too, no inside edge and lots of reds on the replay.
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17th over: England 81-2 (Root 11, Stokes 8) Three dots from Shami before Stokes tries to heave him away into the stands, the batter cloths it slightly and the ball plugs inside the boundary. Three to the total. Stokes then plays another bludgeoning drive that is well stopped by Kohli in the covers. Bubbling up nicely now.
16th over: England 78-2 (Root 11, Stokes 5) Stokes wanders down the track and violently thwacks Prasidh away for four. Scary stuff. Shami is coming back into the attack, shrewd move from Captain Sharma as Shami pocketed Stokes at the Oval on Tuesday.
15th over: England 72-2 (Root 9, Stokes 0) Stokes pats back his first two balls from Chahal. How long will that last? Bairstow looked surprised he missed that full ball that scooched under his bat and onto the stumps. It didn’t turn but was fuller than he played for.
WICKET! Bairstow b Chahal 38 (England 72-2)
Bairstow is bowled after missing a slog sweep!
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14th over: England 70-1 (Bairstow 36, Root 9) Prasidh continues but he serves up some short stuff to Bairstow who tucks in with relish, an air of Henry VIII about him as he flays to the boundary with regal ease.
Cricketers as monarchs then I guess. It’s a bit Partridge but we may as well try. Kohli has a whiff of Charles I? GET IN TOUCH WHY DON’T YA?
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13th over: England 59-1 (Bairstow 27, Root 8) The wiry Chahal comes on for a twirl. He gets a few to fizz and rip before a full ball is beautifully check-driven over the covers for four by YJB.
12th over: England 52-1 (Bairstow 21, Root 7) All strangely subdued at Lord’s. Root is nearly grabbed by Jadeja with a diving effort at backward point but the repay showed the ball landed short.
Athers and Eoin Morgan on commentary are discussing Albert Trott’s famous six that cleared the Lord’s pavilion - perhaps due to the lack of pyro on the field.
This video gets a mention, with John Simpson coming closest out of a host of big hitting names.
11th over: England 50-1 (Bairstow 21, Root 5) Hardik sends down a tidy over that goes for just four singles. A dab behind square from Root brings up England’s FIFTY.
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10th over: England 46-1 (Bairstow 19, Root 3) Prasidh Krishna into the attack. Root drives for three through the covers to get underway and Bairstow pulls for a single. PowerPlay done, honours even.
STATS:
Of all the opening partnerships in ODI cricket to have put on at least 1000 runs together, only one has done so at a higher average than Bairstow and Roy (Dhawan and Rahane) and none have scored at a faster run rate. #EngvInd pic.twitter.com/fuIFuEZqMO
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) July 14, 2022
9th over: England 41-1 (Bairstow 16, Root) Joe Root is the new man and he sprints out onto the outfield as is his wont of late. He leaves his first ball well alone and that’s the over. Both teams grappling for supremacy at the moment.
WICKET! Roy ct Yadav b Pandya 23 (England 41-1)
D’oh! Roy plays a lovely little helicopter stye flick off his toes but seemingly doesn’t spot the man prowling on the boundary rope or thought he was hitting it for six. In the end it is an easy catch for Yadav. A bit of a gift in the end from Roy.
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8th over: England 40-0 (Bairstow 16, Roy 23) A lesser spotted maiden in ODI cricket is sent down by Bumrah. He also shells a sharp caught and bowled chance as Roy slaps a ball back to him in his follow through. Hard chance, but goes down as a miss.
BTW - Twitter is having a nightmare, a non Elon Musk related one (or is it?) and is seemingly out for the count globally. Get me on the trusty email, you know where you are with email.
7th over: England 40-0 (Bairstow 16, Roy 23) Bairstow nicks one that flies straight to where second slip just was. India are ticking, the man had just come out of there, against the bowler’s wishes I think.
M’esteemed colleague Ali Martin gets in on the World Cup Final Nostalgia, well worth a read this.
6th over: England 35-0 (Bairstow 12, Roy 22) Bairstow is lightning quick to pounce on a short ball from Bumrah and laces it away on the pull in front of square. The shot of a man seeing it big and early.
5th over: England 30-0 (Bairstow 8, Roy 21) A lucky inside edge brings Roy four. Shami responds with the ball of the day so far, cutting Roy in half like he’s a magicians assistant. SIX! Take that - next ball Roy flays over midwicket with an extravagant bat swing. A push from Roy runs away into the gap and brings three more. England cranking up, as Dave Benson Phillips might say.
4th over: England 17-0 (Bairstow 8, Roy 8) Bairstow, who has been starved of the strike so far, get’s off the mark with a glide through point for a couple. Both England batters struggling to time the ball so far... spoke to soon! Bairstow clips a short of a length ball off his hip for a sublimely timed four! Almost as if Jonny could hear me there and responded in kind. “When will they learn to to shut up” etc etc.
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3rd over: England 9-0 (Bairstow 0, Roy 8) Shot! Roy gets England’s first boundary, a full ball from Shami is clipped away through mid-wicket. He’s then beaten three times in a row, Shami rubs his brow ruefully.
2nd over: England 5-0 (Bairstow 0, Roy 4) Bumrah gets BIG movement straight away, nipping one back to Roy who is lucky not to chop onto his stumps. Roy then wanders down to try and negate the movement and is wrapped on the pad, a strangled appeal but outside the line. “These are nervy times for Jason Roy” chirps Nasser on comms, he does look ill at ease against the slippery Bumrah, who wouldn’t? A clip through mid-wicket brings Roy three.
1st over: England 2-0 (Bairstow 0, Roy 1) Shami starts with a leg side wide. Roy then plinks a drive into the covers and England are away. Shami is then right on it, landing the ball on a pocket square outside off stump, he beats Bairstow a couple of times. Here comes Jasprit!
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Shami has the ball in his mitts, Roy and Bairstow stride out purposefully. England will be looking to avenge events south of the river just a few days ago. Here we go. PLAY!
On Sky, Eoin Morgan and Ben Stokes are discussing that day three years ago. I still can’t get enough of it.
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India win the toss and bowl
England are unchanged and Virat is back for India.
India win the toss again, and put England in again. Should be a slightly better day for batting.
— Will Macpherson (@willis_macp) July 14, 2022
England unchanged; India bring back Virat Kohli for Shreyas yer
Preamble
Cast your mind back three whole years. Try it. Hard eh? It’s almost impossible, unless you are a daily diarist a la Palin or Pepys, to remember what life was like back then, let alone try to recall one single day among all the others. This was pre-Covid, pre-non-fungible tokens, pre-Liz Truss idly flicking through wallpaper swatches for Downing Street …
But 14 July 2019 was one of those days that stands out above most, a summer rose poking above the garden wall. England won the (cricket) World Cup. At Lord’s, in front of a delirious crowd that had been treated to one of the most incredibly bonko games of cricket on record.
A game that chomped through huge moments like a teething toddler, spitting one out and discarding it for the next, over and over, until no one really knew what was going on.
Boult with the ball, Boult on the boundary rope, Buttler, Woakes, Plunkett, Archer, Rashid, Wood. STOKES. Jaw dropping sixes, cosmic deflections, run outs … Super Over? 15 runs. Jimmy Neesham - SIX! Jofra Archer, Martin Guptill Nasser Hussain, Ian Smith, Jason Roy, Jos Buttler. The barest of all margins.
Not to be too overblown, but that game three years ago changed my life.
Cricket, just like life, marches on though. So we find ourselves here, at Lord’s, three years later. Players have come and gone, including the captain and mastermind of the 2019 campaign (and the years preceding) Eoin Morgan. He’s made the move up to the commentary box and his deputy Jos Buttler is the new man in charge.
England are stuttering slightly, after obliterating the Dutch in Amsterdam a few weeks ago they’ve been brought firmly back down to earth by Rohit Sharma’s India. A drubbing at the hands of Jasprit Bumrah’s bull-whip at the Oval a few days ago means that England have to win this match to keep this short series alive.
It is scorching in London, Lord’s is a picture. On we go.
Play will begin at 1pm (BST). I’ll be back with the teams and the toss very shortly.
