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Big Bash League, 2012/13 / 2nd semi final

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Big Bash League – 2nd semi finalPerth Scorchers vMelbourne StarsPerth Scorchers won by 8 wickets (with 0 balls remaining) (D/L method)

• Twenty20 match | 2012/13 season
• Played at Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, Perth
• 16 January 2013 – day/night (20-over match)

	Melbourne Stars innings (18 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	CL White	c Gibbs b Behrendorff	88	53	9	5	166.03
	LJ Wright	c Thomas b Coulter-Nile	16	12	0	2	133.33
	BJ Hodge	not out	70	43	3	5	162.79
	RJ Quiney	not out	3	3	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(lb 2, w 1, nb 3)	6
	Total	(2 wickets; 18 overs)	183	(10.16 runs per over)

Did not bat PSP Handscomb†, JP Faulkner*, AR Keath, JW Hastings, AD Mascarenhas, JM Bird, SK Warne

Fall of wickets 1-39 (Wright, 4.4 ov), 2-159 (White, 15.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AC Thomas	3	0	27	0	9.00
	JP Behrendorff	4	0	47	1	11.75	(1nb)
	NM Coulter-Nile	4	0	24	1	6.00	(1nb)
	MA Beer	4	0	39	0	9.75	(1w)
	GB Hogg	3	0	44	0	14.66	(1nb)

	Perth Scorchers innings (target: 139 runs from 13 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	SE Marsh	c Hodge b Faulkner	68	40	8	3	170.00
	HH Gibbs	retired hurt	7	5	1	0	140.00
	NM Coulter-Nile	c Hodge b Hastings	0	1	0	0	0.00
	AC Voges	not out	36	21	1	3	171.42
	MEK Hussey†	not out	21	12	1	1	175.00
	Extras	(b 4, lb 3, w 1, nb 2)	10
	Total	(2 wickets; 13 overs)	142	(10.92 runs per over)

Did not bat SM Katich*, MJ North, AC Thomas, GB Hogg, JP Behrendorff, MA Beer

Fall of wickets 0-25* (Gibbs, retired not out), 1-26 (Coulter-Nile, 3.4 ov), 2-101 (Marsh, 9.3 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	JP Faulkner	3	0	25	1	8.33	(1nb, 1w)
	JM Bird	2	0	22	0	11.00
	AD Mascarenhas	3	0	27	0	9.00
	JW Hastings	3	0	22	1	7.33
	AR Keath	1	0	27	0	27.00
	LJ Wright	1	0	12	0	12.00

Match details

Toss Perth Scorchers, who chose to field Series Perth Scorchers advanced

Twenty20 debut AR Keath (Melbourne Stars) Player of the match SE Marsh (Perth Scorchers)

Umpires SD Fry and MD Martell TV umpire GC Joshua Match referee RJ Evans

Match notes

Melbourne Stars innings Rain stopped play: Melbourne Stars 159/1 off 15.2 overs, 2 overs lost CL White: 50 off 41 balls (8×4, 0x6) BJ Hodge: 50 off 28 balls (2×4, 4×6) Perth Scorchers innings Reduced to 13 overs HH Gibbs retired hurt at 25/0 (7, 3.2 ov) SE Marsh: 50 off 29 balls (5×4, 3×6) Crowd: 17,903 (record for Big Bash at WACA) Scorchers prevail in dramatic, rain-hit match   Perth Scorchers 2 for 139 in 13 overs (Marsh 68) beat Melbourne Stars 2 for 183 in 18 overs (White 88, Hodge 70*) Scorecard Michael Hussey celebrates after hitting the winning runs. Enlarge BBL Final Scorchers vs Brisbane Jan 19, 2013 Pomersbach ready to take  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmQQghMqSTU You need more than the Duckworth/Lewis method to work out how the Perth Scorchers won this extraordinary semi-final against Melbourne Stars, and qualified for the Champions League again. Rain reduced the contest from a 20-over affair to an 18-over match at the end of the Stars’ magnificent batting display. Then more rain initially reduced it to a 17-over chase, before a 13-over pursuit of 139 was finally begun. You could talk about the ten runs needed from James Faulkner’s final over, and Jackson Bird’s drop of Michael Hussey from the first ball of the over. But the match, the BBL final, and the Champions League berth all hinged on what appeared to be the last ball of the match. Adam Voges took strike, needing three runs to win, and two to force a one-over eliminator. Faulkner, who was controversially made the stand-in captain for the Stars with both Shane Warne and Cameron White on sanctions for slow over-rates earlier in the tournament, stood at the top of his mark with his actual captain, Warne, and the former acting captain, White, trying to set a field to keep the scoring to two or less. The trio parted ways, all pointing every which way. Faulkner delivered a brilliant wide yorker that Voges missed and despite Hussey running through for a bye the Stars thought they had won the match, until they saw standing umpire Mick Martell’s right arm outstretched to signal a no-ball. The Stars’ three captains had failed to notice they only had three men inside the circle. To rub salt into the wound Faulkner also over-stepped the frontline. Either way the Stars looked at it, the ball needed to be re-bowled and the Scorchers needed just one to win. Hussey, of course, struck the winning runs over mid-on, and the Scorchers booked a home final for Saturday night at the WACA. The Scorchers can thank Shaun Marsh for getting them there. Chasing 139 to win, Marsh produced another astonishing hand. His innings of 68 from 40 balls was the difference in the end. The Scorchers were 1 for 38 after five overs, having lost Herschelle Gibbs to a hamstring strain and Nathan Coulter-Nile to a superb running catch from Brad Hodge. Marsh then targeted debutant Alex Keath, who was called upon for his first over by one of his captains. The left-hander assaulted the youngster, taking 27 from the over. Both a full toss and a half volley landed in the long-on bleachers. Then two elegant cover drives found the cover rope in different ways, one on the bounce, the next along the carpet. The fifth ball went for six again, the sixth Marsh took a single to retain the strike in a commanding display of batting. Off the first ball of the seventh over, Marsh slashed Bird to third man to bring up his fifth half-century of the tournament, and the third in a row. He and Voges continued to find the rope with ease before Marsh holed out with 38 runs still needed. But it only brought Hussey to the crease to hook his second ball for six. His 18 not out from 12 balls was vintage Hussey, but credit must really go to Voges who finished with an unbeaten 36 from 21 deliveries to help the Scorchers to the most remarkable of victories. Given the wet conditions and the shortened match, Warne did not bowl for the first time in the BBL. It was a result that never seemed likely after the Stars’ phenomenal batting display. Simon Katich asked the Stars to bat with one eye on the looming rain clouds. Cameron White was promoted to open and nearly doubled his tournament run tally in 53 balls of brutal hitting. White had managed just 90 runs in seven innings this tournament. His 88 here looked a match-winning effort. After a cautious start the Stars were 1 for 69 through the first ten overs. But then White and Hodge cut loose. They hit 10 sixes between them, each as large as the next. No bowler was spared with the exception of Coulter-Nile who conceded only a run a ball while his colleagues were clubbed to all corners of a packed WACA ground. A rain delay brought about White’s downfall as he picked out long-off first ball after the resumption. It did not stop Hodge though. His unbeaten 70 from 43 deliveries helped the Stars to an imposing total of 2 for 183, which would have certainly been in excess of 200 had they been allowed to bat the 20 overs. Hodge received a life on 40 when the makeshift wicketkeeper Hussey missed a stumping chance. But the gamble of gloving Hussey would pay dividends in the end for the Scorchers. Perth will host the BBL final for the second successive year, and despite the disgrace and disappointment of the 2012 Champions League, they will be there again in 2013.

Big Bash League, 2012/13

Big Bash League, 2012/13 / Scorecard

 

Big Bash League – 1st semi final

Melbourne Renegades vBrisbane Heat

Brisbane Heat won by 15 runs

• Twenty20 match | 2012/13 season
• Played at Docklands Stadium, Melbourne
• 15 January 2013 – day/night (20-over match)

	Brisbane Heat innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	LA Pomersbach	not out	112	70	15	2	160.00
	PJ Forrest	c Sheridan b Pattinson	3	7	0	0	42.85
	JA Burns	c Cooper b Finch	33	28	3	1	117.85
	DT Christian	c Doolan b Muralitharan	11	7	0	1	157.14
	CA Lynn	not out	20	9	2	1	222.22
	Extras	(b 1, w 2, nb 1)	4
	Total	(3 wickets; 20 overs)	183	(9.15 runs per over)

Did not bat CJM Sabburg, BCJ Cutting, CD Hartley*†, NM Hauritz, KAJ Roach, AC McDermott

Fall of wickets 1-17 (Forrest, 2.5 ov), 2-97 (Burns, 13.2 ov), 3-138 (Christian, 16.4 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AW O’Brien	4	0	31	0	7.75
	WD Sheridan	4	0	41	0	10.25	(1w)
	DJ Pattinson	3	0	27	1	9.00
	NJ Rimmington	3	0	25	0	8.33
	M Muralitharan	4	0	35	1	8.75	(1w)
	AJ Finch	2	0	23	1	11.50	(1nb)

	Melbourne Renegades innings (target: 184 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	AJ Finch*	c Sabburg b Lynn	23	23	2	1	100.00
	AD Hales	b Cutting	20	15	3	1	133.33
	AJ Doolan	c Forrest b Hauritz	13	17	1	0	76.47
	BJ Rohrer	c Hauritz b Lynn	42	22	1	3	190.90
	TLW Cooper	b Cutting	14	12	0	1	116.66
	PM Nevill†	run out (Hauritz)	18	13	1	0	138.46
	WD Sheridan	c Hauritz b McDermott	6	4	0	0	150.00
	NJ Rimmington	b Cutting	3	4	0	0	75.00
	AW O’Brien	not out	14	7	1	1	200.00
	DJ Pattinson	c Sabburg b McDermott	3	4	0	0	75.00
	M Muralitharan	not out	0	0	0	0	–
	Extras	(lb 4, w 7, nb 1)	12
	Total	(9 wickets; 20 overs)	168	(8.40 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-35 (Hales, 3.6 ov), 2-63 (Doolan, 8.6 ov), 3-64 (Finch, 9.2 ov), 4-110 (Cooper, 13.4 ov),5-131 (Rohrer, 15.4 ov), 6-141 (Sheridan, 16.4 ov), 7-147 (Nevill, 17.4 ov), 8-150 (Rimmington, 18.2 ov),9-161 (Pattinson, 19.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KAJ Roach	4	0	31	0	7.75	(1w)
	AC McDermott	4	0	31	2	7.75
	BCJ Cutting	4	0	24	3	6.00
	DT Christian	2	0	28	0	14.00	(1nb, 2w)
	NM Hauritz	4	0	35	1	8.75	(3w)
	CA Lynn	2	0	15	2	7.50

Match details

Toss Brisbane Heat, who chose to bat Series Brisbane Heat advanced

Player of the match LA Pomersbach (Brisbane Heat)

Umpires JD Ward and P Wilson TV umpire GA Abood Match referee RW Stratford

Match notes

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England in India ODI Series – 2nd ODI

England in India ODI Series – 2nd ODI

India v England

India won by 127 runs

• ODI no. 3320 | 2012/13 season
• Played at Nehru Stadium, Kochi
• 15 January 2013 – day/night (50-over match)

	India innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	AM Rahane	b Finn	4	23	14	0	0	28.57
	G Gambhir	b Dernbach	8	19	13	1	0	61.53
	V Kohli	c Bell b Woakes	37	86	54	1	1	68.51
	Yuvraj Singh	lbw b Tredwell	32	47	37	5	0	86.48
	SK Raina	b Finn	55	96	78	2	2	70.51
	MS Dhoni*†	c Root b Dernbach	72	117	66	7	2	109.09
	RA Jadeja	not out	61	60	37	8	2	164.86
	R Ashwin	not out	1	4	1	0	0	100.00
	Extras	(lb 5, w 10)	15
	Total	(6 wickets; 50 overs)	285	(5.70 runs per over)

Did not bat B Kumar, I Sharma, Shami Ahmed

Fall of wickets 1-18 (Gambhir, 3.6 ov), 2-18 (Rahane, 4.3 ov), 3-71 (Yuvraj Singh, 15.2 ov), 4-119 (Kohli, 26.2 ov),5-174 (Raina, 39.2 ov), 6-270 (Dhoni, 49.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	ST Finn	10	1	51	2	5.10
	JW Dernbach	9	0	73	2	8.11	(3w)
	CR Woakes	9	0	60	1	6.66	(1w)
	SR Patel	10	0	43	0	4.30	(1w)
	JC Tredwell	10	0	48	1	4.80
	JE Root	2	0	5	0	2.50

	England innings (target: 286 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	A Cook*	lbw b Kumar	17	46	27	3	0	62.96
	IR Bell	c †Dhoni b Shami Ahmed	1	5	6	0	0	16.66
	KP Pietersen	b Kumar	42	58	44	7	0	95.45
	JE Root	b Jadeja	36	78	50	3	0	72.00
	EJG Morgan	c †Dhoni b Kumar	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	C Kieswetter†	c Raina b Ashwin	18	42	38	3	0	47.36
	SR Patel	not out	30	39	29	3	1	103.44
	CR Woakes	lbw b Jadeja	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	JC Tredwell	lbw b Ashwin	1	8	10	0	0	10.00
	ST Finn	c †Dhoni b Ashwin	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
	JW Dernbach	run out (Jadeja/†Dhoni)	2	9	6	0	0	33.33
	Extras	(b 5, lb 2, w 4)	11
	Total	(all out; 36 overs)	158	(4.38 runs per over)

Fall of wickets 1-4 (Bell, 1.2 ov), 2-58 (Cook, 10.1 ov), 3-73 (Pietersen, 14.2 ov), 4-73 (Morgan, 14.4 ov),5-110 (Kieswetter, 25.3 ov), 6-132 (Root, 30.2 ov), 7-132 (Woakes, 30.5 ov), 8-135 (Tredwell, 33.2 ov),9-135 (Finn, 33.3 ov), 10-158 (Dernbach, 35.6 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	B Kumar	10	2	29	3	2.90	(1w)
	Shami Ahmed	4	1	24	1	6.00	(2w)
	I Sharma	4	0	28	0	7.00	(1w)
	RA Jadeja	7	1	12	2	1.71
	Yuvraj Singh	4	0	19	0	4.75
	R Ashwin	7	0	39	3	5.57

Match details

Toss India, who chose to bat Series 5-match series level 1-1

Player of the match RA Jadeja (India)

Umpires SJ Davis (Australia) and VA Kulkarni TV umpire S Asnani Match referee AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) Reserve umpire CK Nandan

Match notes

India innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 44 runs, 2 wickets) India: 50 runs in 11.1 overs (67 balls), Extras 9 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 60 balls (V Kohli 15, Yuvraj Singh 30, Ex 5) Drinks: India – 71/3 in 15.2 overs (V Kohli 16) India: 100 runs in 22.6 overs (138 balls), Extras 12 India: 150 runs in 34.1 overs (205 balls), Extras 14 Drinks: India – 156/4 in 35.0 overs (SK Raina 46, MS Dhoni 15) Powerplay 2: Overs 35.1 – 40.0 (Batting side – 21 runs, 1 wicket) SK Raina: 50 off 66 balls (2 x 4, 2 x 6) 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 68 balls (SK Raina 28, MS Dhoni 20, Ex 2) India: 200 runs in 42.5 overs (257 balls), Extras 14 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 38 balls (MS Dhoni 21, RA Jadeja 30, Ex 0) MS Dhoni: 50 off 56 balls (3 x 4, 2 x 6) India: 250 runs in 47.6 overs (288 balls), Extras 14 RA Jadeja: 50 off 35 balls (7 x 4, 1 x 6) Innings Break: India – 285/6 in 50.0 overs (RA Jadeja 61, R Ashwin 1) England innings Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 – 10.0 (Mandatory – 58 runs, 1 wicket) England: 50 runs in 9.1 overs (55 balls), Extras 6 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 49 balls (AN Cook 16, KP Pietersen 32, Ex 4) Drinks: England – 73/3 in 14.2 overs (JE Root 6) England: 100 runs in 24.1 overs (145 balls), Extras 11 Drinks: England – 135/8 in 33.2 overs (SR Patel 9) Powerplay 2: Overs 34.1 – 39.0 (Batting side – 22 runs, 1 wicket) England: 150 runs in 35.3 overs (213 balls), Extras 11

England admit Broad injury concerns

January 15, 2013

 

 

Stuart Broad went wicketless in his two Tests against India in December

News : Broad ruled out of T20 series   News : Broad suffers recurrence of heel injury   News : Broad’s Test place in the balance   News : Saker admits to Broad concerns  The England national selector, Geoff Miller, has admitted there are concerns over the fitness of Stuart Broad, England’s Twenty20 captain, and that a time may come when he cannot be part of the side in all three formats of the game.

 

Broad, who flew home early from the Test series in India with a heel problem, is due to link up with the England squad ahead of the final two one-day internationals, but is considered unlikely to play either of those matches. A more realistic target for his return is the Twenty20 series in New Zealand, which starts on February 9.

 

That, however, is admittance that Broad’s recovery from the heel problem that plagued him during the Test series in India has not gone as smoothly as hoped. Broad is visiting a kit specialist in Germany this week to be fitted with customised boots aimed to alleviate the problem on his left heel, which takes the brunt of the force during his delivery stride.

 

“The concern is that there have been two or three niggles that have affected his form and availability,” Miller told reporters in India. “Anybody with an injury is a concern to us and we’ve got to manage workloads as best as we can, that’s why we’re continually looking at other players. We will look at it and make sure he’s used in the best possible way for English cricket. He knows that.”

 

The rotation of players during a packed international schedule is now a major talking point, particularly in Australia, and England are currently using such a system during the one-day series in India, with James Anderson and Jonathan Trott also rested. It is likely, too, that certain key players will be given periods off during the upcoming home-and-away Test series against New Zealand.

 

However, ruling a player out of a format completely, unless that is a decision taken by the player concerned, is a drastic option and one that Miller hoped Broad will not have to contemplate.

“At this moment of time we’re not thinking about taking him out of a format because he’s got that sort of quality, but if we reached the stage where his body wasn’t responding to all kinds of cricket then we’re open to that.”

 

Although Broad finished 2012 as the fourth-highest Test wicket-taker among quick bowlers, with 40 wickets at 31.70, his form tailed off in the second half of the year against South Africa and India. He had earlier been rested from the one-day series against South Africa, led England at the World Twenty20 before picking up his heel injury during the warm-up matches in India. The problem then reoccurred towards the end of the tour.

 

Broad’s injury problems began in Australia during the 2010-11 Ashes, when a strained stomach muscle sustained in Adelaide forced him home early. He then suffered a rib injury during the World Cup, which again ended his participation early, and then picked up a shoulder injury late in the 2011 home season.

 

“What we have to do is react to the injury that he has at any one time,” Miller said. “He felt, and we felt, that he had to look after his body so he went away and worked really hard at that. Since then there have been a few niggling injuries, but anybody can get them.”

India v England 2nd ODI 2013

Dhoni helps India draw level with crushing win

January 15, 2013

India 285 for 6 (Dhoni 72, Jadeja 61*) beat England 158 (Pietersen 42, Bhuvneshwar 3-29) by 127 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details

MS Dhoni fired India to a total that proved far too good for England.

Kochi, in tourist terms at least, is the gateway to the backwaters but India, 1-0 down in the ODI series with four to play, were in no mood to take that journey. MS Dhoni, impassioned not just with the bat but just as strikingly in every aspect of his captaincy, made that abundantly clear with every muscle flexed and every order barked and it was England who were sunk without trace in a 127-run defeat.

England’s pursuit of 286 always looked a daunting task and it became an improbable one from the moment that Bhuvneshwar Kumar removed Kevin Pietersen and Eoin Morgan in the space of three balls in an outstanding new-ball spell. There is nothing like a humid evening in Kochi to perk up a swing bowler and Bhuvneshwar, a 22-year-old from Uttar Pradesh playing in only his fifth ODI, also summoned impressive stamina as Dhoni ran his 10-over spell through without interruption and was rewarded with his best international figures of 3 for 29.

But the match had swung India’s way much earlier than that – and it was Dhoni, a captain deemed to be under pressure, and Ravindra Jadeja who were at the heart of it. England had sensed they held an element of control, at the very least, for much of India’s innings but 108 runs from the last 10 overs, 68 from the last five, shook that notion to the core.

As so often, Dhoni was left to plot a route to victory, wresting control from England’s attack with 72 from 66 balls. He creates his own virtuous circle, creating a febrile atmosphere and then feeding off it, in turn causing a crowd of around 70,000 to roar with even greater intensity. He fell four balls from the end of the innings when he sliced Dernbach to Joe Root at deep cover – a suitable end because Dernbach’s unwavering policy of bowling wide to him outside off stump had been England’s most effective counter.

India approached the last 10 overs in unconvincing shape, at 177 for 5, having been confounded in the batting Powerplay by the variations of Dernbach and Steven Finn, which conceded only 21 runs in five overs and dismissed their batting mainstay, Suresh Raina, in the process.

Dhoni had failed to manage India’s run chase in Rajkot, holing out at long-off against Dernbach’s slower ball. He received a near-replica in the closing overs but this time his hands were fast and his brain quicksilver and he muscled it well beyond the boundary rope. It was a statement about how things would be different this time.

What Dhoni stirred, Jadeja delivered, rounding things off by taking 14 from Dernbach’s last three deliveries to finish with an unbeaten 61 from 37 balls. They were impressive statistics for a batsman who had been overshadowed until the last. As for Dernbach, for all his relative success against Dhoni, he still spilled 73 from nine overs.

Smart stats The margin of victory – 127 runs – is the second-highest for India in ODIs against England. England’s score of 158 is their third-lowest all-out totalin ODIs against India. India’s Nos. 5, 6 and 7 all scored half-centuries, only the fifth time this has ever happened in ODIs, and the first such instance for India. The 96-run stand between MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja came at a run-rate of 9.60 per over, the fourth-best rate for a 50-plus stand for India against England. The top three such stands for the sixth wicket for India versus England all involve Dhoni and Jadeja. Jadeja’s strike rate of 164.86 (61 off 37 balls) is thefourth-highest for a 50-plus score by an Indian against England. Since the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni has averaged 83.28 at a strike rate of 92.39, with 11 fifty-plus scores in 27 innings. Dhoni averages 57.78 in 118 ODI innings as captain. His average is the highest among captains who’ve batted at least 15 innings.

For Chris Woakes, who was playing his first ODI in India after his late inclusion for the injured Tim Bresnan, it was an examination far beyond anything he had ever experienced. He thought he had Dhoni caught at the wicket when he had made 6 from nine balls but it was impossible for the umpire Vineet Kulkarni to hear a nick in such a din and normal-speed TV replays, which were all that were shown, made things no clearer.

Raina had made 55 from 78 balls before he dragged on a pull at Finn and departed bashing the peak of his helmet with his bat in frustration, just as Virat Kohil had done earlier when he flayed Woakes to the cover boundary. Raina prospered primarily against the offspin of James Tredwell, two slog sweeps for six representing the highlight of his innings, and ensured that Tredwell, who took four wickets in the opening ODI in Rajkot, did not repeat the mayhem. As for England’s bonus allrounder in the opening match, Joe Root, who bowled nine overs relatively unscathed, there was no encore.

India’s opening pair did not survive long, Gautam Gambhir and Ajinkya Rahane both departing by the fifth over. Finn and Dernbach, also impressive with the new ball, had clamoured for several lbw appeals before they prospered by hitting the stumps.

Dernbach’s nip-backer to bowl Gambhir through the gate was a delivery made to order. There are few more productive, or less convincing, shots in ODIs than Gambhir’s dab through gully for four, bat hanging away from his body and he had played it the previous ball much to the bowler’s frustration. The ball that cut back was the classic retort. Finn also brought a delivery back in his next over, late inswing accounting for Rahane as he shuffled across his crease.

India’s frustration grew when Yuvraj Singh fell to an erroneous lbw decision by Steve Davis, who did not see – and, like Kulkarni in the case of Dhoni, certainly could not hear in such a deafening atmosphere – a deflection off the glove as he swept at Tredwell. With no DRS in use, Yuvraj had to take his punishment, although he did not do so without a stray comment or two.

So, for that matter, did Alastair Cook in England’s reply, with Bhuvneshwar fortunate to win an lbw decision with a delivery that pitched outside leg stump. Cook should have been run out on 17 when Jadeja failed to pick up cleanly at midwicket to take advantage of complete confusion between Pietersen and Cook over a leg-side single. Dhoni’s annoyance was clear, but Bhuvneshwar’s eighth over had an impact on the course of the match and the captain’s mood.

First Pietersen (42 from 44 balls) was bowled by one that jagged back as he sought to run into the off side and two balls later Bhuvneshwar found movement away from the left-handed Morgan from a good length and Dhoni dived to claim one his finest catches against England this winter, in what has been a somewhat troubled wicketkeeping sequence.

England, four down for 74 by the 17th over, had much rebuilding to do. But the ball turned for India’s spinners and it was jerry-built stuff. Craig Kieswetter and Joe Root assessed a while then both got out, Kieswetter unimpressively as he pushed a short ball from R Ashwin to midwicket, Root sliced apart by Jadeja’s arm ball. Woakes’ managed a second-ball duck – another Jadeja arm ball to enhance his excellent match -and England’s tail quickly subsided, in no doubt about the extent of the challenge ahead.

Ravindra Jadeja took 2 for 12 in his seven overs in India’s 127-run win over England in the second ODI in Kochi.

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Shaun Marsh Press Conference

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Shaun Marsh Press Conference Video.