Tag Ind-Eng-ODI-2011

Match : India v England, 1st of 5 ODI Natwest series on 2011 India's tour of England.
Venue/Date : Riverside ground in Chester-le-Street.. 3 September 2011.
Debut : Ajinkya Rahane.
Toss : England, elected to field.
Result : no result, rained off.
Man of the match : none.
Umpires : Billy Doctrove (West Indies) + Richard Illingworth (England) with Marais Erasmus (South Africa) as TV (3rd) umpire.

Head to head : 72nd India v England one day match it was. Now, India still leads 38 to 30 with 1 tied and 3 no results. In England, two teams have clashed for the 29 time and home team still leads 15 to 11 with 3 no results. At the venue, India had played once before and that game was no result as well after Sachin Tendulkar century.

Match summary
So close, yet so far. Indians, having lost all four tests and then the one off T20 match, were so close to registering their first win on this England tour but couldn't, thanks to rain. Parthiv Patel made his career best score while Ajinkya Rahane provided him the best of supports before Virat Kohli made sure visitors raised a handsome total on board despite some late hiccups. England were going no where when rain came to their rescue..

India innings (invited in to bat)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Parthiv Patel	c Kieswetter b Anderson	95	107	12	0
Akinkya Rahane	c Patel b Broad	40	44	6	0
Rahul Dravid	c Kieswetter b Broad	2	6	0	0
Virat Kohli	b Patel	55	73	4	0
Rohit Sharma	retired hurt	0	1	0	0
Suresh Raina	c Cook b Dernbach	38	29	2	2
MS Dhoni	c Kieswetter b Bresnan	33	36	2	0
Praveen Kumar	not out	2	2	0	0
R Ashwin	b Bresnan	0	1	0	0
R Vinay Kumar	not out	1	1	0	0
Munaf Patel
Extra :	8 (lbyes=5, wides=3)
Total :	274 runs in 50 overs for 7 wickets at ( 5.48 ) run rate
Fall of wickets : 1-82(Rahane, 16.6ov); 2-87(Dravid, 17.4ov), 3-190(Patel, 36.6ov), 3-191(Sharma rtd, 37.2ov), 4-206(Kohli, 39.3ov), 5-266(Dhoni, 49.3ov), 7-272(Ashwin, 49.4ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
James Anderson	9	0	41	1
Tim Bresnan	10	0	54	2	2 wides
Stuart Broad	10	0	56	2
Jade Dernbach	9	0	62	1
Samit Patel	10	0	42	1
Jonathan Trott	2	0	14	0	1 wide

England innings (target = 275 from 50 overs)
Batsman		R	B	4s	6s
Alastair Cook	b Kumar	4	10	1	0
Craig Kieswetter	lbw b Kumar	6	19	1	0
Jonathan Trott	not out	14	14	3	0
Ian Bell	not out	2	1	0	0
Eoin Morgan
Ben Stokes
Samit Patel
Tim Bresnan
Stuart Broad
James Anderson
Jade Dernbach
Extra :	1 (lbye=1)
Total :	27 runs in 7.2 overs for 2 wickets at ( 3.75 ) run rate
Fall of wickets : 1-6(Cook, 2.4ov), 2-21(Kieswetter, 6.5ov)

Bowler	Overs	Maiden	Runs	W	Extra
Praveen Kumar	4	1	11	2
R Vinay Kumar	3.2	1	15	0