Player of the Match
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Best performances - Batsmen

RG Sharma
RG Sharma
119(90) 12x4 - 7x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 22 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
7 24 14 17 15 13 14 15
JE Root
JE Root
69(72) 6x4 - 0x6
Control %80%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
15 6 9 1 7 8 6 17

Best performances - Bowlers

RA Jadeja
RA Jadeja
O10
M1
R35
W3
Eco3.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
J Overton
J Overton
O5
M0
R27
W2
Eco5.4
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

England , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Series result

India led the 3-match series 2-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.30 start, First Session 13.30-17.00, Interval 17.00-17.30, Second Session 17.30-21.00

Match days

9 February 2025 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu

10.10pm Rohit has hit form in the lead-up to the Champions Trophy and India have wrapped up this series, with one game to go. As for England, they have a few questions to answer. Can they end this tour with a win in Ahmedabad? Do join us for the third - and final - ODI on February 12. Until then, this is Al Muthu signing off on the behalf of Vithushan Ehantharajah and Chandan Duorah. Goodbye for now

Rohit Sharma, India captain and Player of the Match: It was good and really enjoyed being out there, scoring some runs for the team. Important game with the series on the line but I broke it down to pieces about how I wanted to bat. Longer than T20s and shorter than Tests and I wanted to break it down. I wanted to bat as deep as possible and that was my focus. Looking at the pitch - when you play on black soil, it tends to skid on a bit and you have to show the full face of the bat initially. Then they bowled into the body and kept it on the stumps and that's where I prepared my plan and tried to access the gaps. Got very good support from Gill and Shreyas as well. Enjoy batting with Gill. Very classy player and doesn't seem to get overawed by the situation and the numbers are there as well, if I'm not wrong, for Gill. The middle overs are quite important and that's where the game can go either side. If you squeeze the middle overs, you need not worry much about the death. The middle overs is very crucial and even in Nagpur, we squeezed them and got wickets. When you keep taking wickets, the run-scoring is not easy. We want to keep getting better as well. Nothing specific we want to work on but overall we want to keep getting better as a player and team. That is what we want to do. As long as guys are clear about what they are supposed to do, if they keep doing that not much to think about.

Jos Buttler, England captain: We got into some nice positions with the bat but we need a few of us to catch fire and push us to 350. Another great innings from Rohit; he's been doing it in ODI cricket for a while. Maybe it skidded on a bit and played well but the opposition played well. We tried to get to 330-350, maybe that would have been defendable. Just keep taking steps in the right direction though results are not there but we need to keep going.

Shubman Gill says he was feeling good when he was batting out there. And that batting with Rohit was fun. Today he took on the bowlers. This is how he's been batting in ODIs in the past couple of years. The way he dominated the fast bowlers was a treat to watch. The pitch was good to bat on, the odd ball was skidding (low). The chat between Rohit and me was simple, just play according the ball and once set, try to dominate.

Nachiket: "The other thing India would be really happy with is Jadeja's bowling form in ODIs. He has regained some of his consistency wrt length"

Russ : "England would do well to take a cue from India and be flexible with their batting line up.. There's no way Jos should be batting that low after such a positive start"

Samrat Ahuja: "Jadeja managing to hit the boundary to finish off both the matches in successful run chase in the series!!"

Mustafa Moudi : "Steve Smith in the Morning and Rohit in the Evening - My Day Begins and Ends with a Skipper Winning the Player of the Match !!"

Nazir ahamed : "Has anyone noticed that Axar patel is getting one of the finest all-rounder in all formats."

9.44pm A century for Rohit Sharma. Pretty much top of the pile for things that India needed going into the Champions Trophy. They've also been getting other good news, with Shreyas' form and Axar's versatility with the bat. But seeing their captain back to somewhere close to his best must have put a lot of smiles in a lot of important people's faces. Virat Kohli still needs runs. Jasprit Bumrah's fitness status still needs clearing up. Varun Chakravarthy has put his name up for CT selection. More things going right than wrong for this team.

England, meanwhile, will be wondering whether they're cut out to handle conditions like this. They were strongly placed to score 330-plus with Joe Root scoring a fifty and Jos Buttler looking set. Then Buttler wasn't able to execute his lofted drive and from there the team sunk. The bowling looked ordinary at best. Occasionally Adil Rashid threatened. Occasionally Mark Wood's pace put India on the back foot. The only time India's batters weren't having it their way was during a 30-minute floodlight failure

44.3
4
Root to Jadeja, FOUR, smashes it inside out through cover to seal the series. A hop skip and thump from Jadeja ends the game and becomes the cue for fireworks over the Cuttack stadium
44.2
0
Root to Jadeja, no run, defends a flighted delivery to mid-on
44.2
1w
Root to Jadeja, 1 wide, slides down leg
44.1
1
Root to Patel, 1 run, looks like a seam up short ball, which Axar pulls to deep square leg

END OF OVER:
44 | 7 Runs | IND: 302/6 (3 runs required from 36 balls, RR: 6.86, RRR: 0.50)

  • Axar Patel40 (42b)
  • Ravindra Jadeja7 (5b)
  • Gus Atkinson7-0-65-1
  • Joe Root1-0-9-0
43.6
1
Atkinson to Patel, 1 run, very nearly takes Jadeja's head off with a flat-batted swipe down the ground. Jadeja's got quick reflexes though and ducks underneath the strike. Overthrow from mid-on, largely because the bowler isn't able to gather it right
43.5
0
Atkinson to Patel, no run, shapes to ramp the short ball outside off but can't make contact

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India 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st136RG SharmaShubman Gill
2nd14RG SharmaV Kohli
3rd70RG SharmaSS Iyer
4th38AR PatelSS Iyer
5th17KL RahulAR Patel
6th11AR PatelHH Pandya
7th22RA JadejaAR Patel