IND vs ENG 1st ODI | This is one of India's sweetest victories in recent past, says skipper Kohli
Cricket | March 23, 2021 22:29 ISTThe skipper also said that India are in a very healthy position with a large pool of players.
The skipper also said that India are in a very healthy position with a large pool of players.
With figures of 4/54 in 8.1 overs in the 66-run win over England here on Tuesday in the opening ODI, the 25-year-old Krishna became the first Indian bowler to take four (or more) wickets on ODI debut.
Chasing a steep 317-run target for victory, England folded for 251 in 42.1 overs despite making a dazzling start.
16 bowlers have picked three wickets on ODI debut for India, with off-spinner Noel David previously holding the best-ever record of 3 for 21 against West Indies in 1997. Krishna finished with figures 8.1-1-54-4.
England's opening pair of Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy scored 135 runs in 14.2 overs in reply to India's 317 for five.
Shreyas Iyer dived to his left and saved two runs but ended up hurting his shoulder in the process.
Krunal smashed a 26-ball fifty and stitched a century stand with KL Rahul for the sixth wicket as India ended their innings at 317 for five in 50 overs.
Krunal was left in tears when asked about his scintillating half-century as he dedicated his knock to his father
Krunal stitched a century stand for the sixth wicket with KL Rahul as the duo took England bowlers to the cleaners in the last five overs.
Billings left the field clutching his shoulder after tried to stop a four off India opener Shikhar Dhawan in the 33rd over of the match.
Dhawan shrugged off the pressure in style as he notched up a well-constructed knock of 98 runs, painfully falling two runs short of his18th ODI century on Tuesday at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.
Kohli brought his fifty off 50 balls, laced with six boundaries, which is his 61st in the format and 104th fifty-plus score in ODIs
Brother Hardik Pandya hands maiden ODI cap to Krunal while KL Rahul does the honours for his Karnataka teammate Prasidh.
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Chopra urged the team management to play the Indian player in the ODI series against England.
Indian captain Virat Kohli has a chance of going past Australia great Ricky Ponting in the upcoming ODI series against England.
England will be without the services of Jofra Archer (injured) and Joe Root (rested), and Vaughan believes that their absence would play a decisive role in the series.
The series is particularly important for the 35-year-old Dhawan, who failed to make an impact in the first T20 in Ahmedabad before warming the benches the remaining two games which India won.
Kohli opened for the eighth time in T20Is and first since 2018 in the fifth and final T20I match against England on Saturday and scored an unbeaten 80, his highest from that position, surpassing his previous best of 70* scored in 2012 in Chennai.
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