India defeated England by 127 runs in 2nd ODI

India defeated England in 2nd ODI by 127 runs and levels the series of 5 matches by 1-1. This is biggest victory of India in recent time. After winning world cup performance of the Indian team was not good and recently India had lost ODI series by 2-1 against Pakistan. Ravindra Jadeja declared Man of the match for his all round performance, scintillating 61 runs (37 ball) and 2 wickets.   

 Indian Inning

India won the toss and elected to bat first. Opening of Indian inning was not good; both openers got out easily but middle order paly well. Virat Kohli and Yuvraj Shingh played useful inning of 32 and 35 runs. Main attraction of the match was scintillating inning of Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (72 runs), Suresh Raina (52 runs) and Ravindra Jadeja (61 runs). India set target of 286 run for England to win.

 England Inning

In reply England got all out at 158 runs. All batsman of English team was struggling for a run. Kevin Peiterson (42 runs), Root (32 runs) and Patel (30 runs) only added some runs for their team but rest of batsman was struggling against Indian bowling. Yesterday, English Captain Cook had said that his team will win 2nd ODI but he could not save this match and faces a big defeat.

Kumar and Ashwin took 3 wickets and Jadeja 2 wickets.

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