Player of the Match
Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
50 | 10 Runs 2 Wkts | ENG: 321/8 | RR: 6.42

  • Ben Stokes57 (39b)
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar8-0-56-0
  • Jasprit Bumrah10-1-68-1

5.10 pm England got 58 from their last five with Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes making sure the top-order's work against a new ball that swung and seamed rather remarkably for Indian conditions did not go to waste. Still Jason Roy wouldn't be happy to have given his wicket away in the 60s. Sam Billings and Eoin Morgan picked out the only fielder in the region to pop a catch to. But offsetting all that was Jonny Bairstow, playing his first game of the series, hitting a fifty and helping the lower-middle order push on to get 321, which is a good total on this deck.

Vishal says, "a mini presentation happening at the ground - Dhoni being felicitated and presented with a memento by Kapil Dev, on behalf of Cricket Association of Bengal, for his contribution as India captain. They have also named four stands after some of the biggest names from Bengal in cricket - Pankaj Roy, BN Dutt, Jagmohan Dalmiya and Sourav Ganguly"

"The way I started with a couple of boundaries, but I came back well. The pitch was doing something. We bowled pretty well at the start, but they were scoring boundaries as well. It'll be a good contest with the new ball moving around," says Hardik Pandya. "We'll have to wait till the ball stops swinging. When I got the shoulder injury, I was worried, but I did my training and I'm happy to be back. The dew will come, even in the last few overs we asked the curators about it and they said it will come"

Living in the US, far away from the beating heart of the game, an Indian fan wonders how he can get the next generation to fall in love with it: How do I explain cricket to my first-born?

Prozium: "Big focus on rahane as he need to bat aggressive and bat big..People wrongly and harshly blame him for slow batting in last T20 world cup semifinal against windies.."

49.6
W
Kumar to Plunkett, 1 run, OUT, shimmies down the pitch and hammers a full toss to long-off. Plunkett goes for a second run, what does he have to lose, it's the last ball and the single is already in the book. This is good scampering from England. He dives in desperation but the throw from long-off beats him

LE Plunkett run out 1 (1m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100.00

49.5
1
Kumar to Stokes, 1 run, wide yorker, might well have been a wide had he missed it. Only a single to deep third man
49.5
W
Kumar to Woakes, 1 wide, OUT, he's run out at the non-strikers' end. Stokes wants to pinch a single with the ball wandering down leg. Woakes has no chance of making his ground, considering Dhoni had tossed the ball to Bhuvi, to the righ tend and Woakes sacrifices his wicket

CR Woakes run out 34 (35m 19b 4x4 1x6) SR: 178.94

49.4
4
Kumar to Woakes, FOUR, that's outstanding. he shimmies down the track to a very full delivery on leg stump, and somehow slices it to the point boundary. How is he timing them

Three balls, three singles

49.3
1
Kumar to Stokes, 1 run, he is making room for himself and is surprised by the wide yorker well outside off, still ends up with good timing through the covers.
49.2
1
Kumar to Woakes, 1 run, lands it in the blockhole on middle and leg, Woakes pushes it into the covers

Third man and point up. Long-off and long-on back

49.1
1
Kumar to Stokes, 1 run, looks for the wide yorker, it's a full toss though and Stokes lashes it to deep backward point

Bhuvneshwar with the final over, starts around the wicket

END OF OVER:
49 | 16 Runs | ENG: 311/6 | RR: 6.34

  • Chris Woakes29 (17b)
  • Ben Stokes54 (36b)
  • Jasprit Bumrah10-1-68-1
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar7-0-46-0
48.6
0
Bumrah to Woakes, no run, full and wide outside off, Woakes tries a square drive, but he can't connect

A series full of runs

2090

Runs scored in the series, the highest ever in a three-match ODI series. The previous highest was 1892, in the Afro-Asia Cup in 2007

In-form captain

17

Innings for Kohli to reach 1000 ODI runs as captain, the fastest ever. The earlier record was 18 innings, by AB de Villiers

Making a habit of it

3

300-plus totals for England in this series; only once have they passed 300 more times in a bilateral ODI series - 4, v NZ in 2015

Stokes' quick fifties

34

Balls for Ben Stokes' 50, the 2nd-fastest for England in ODIs v India. The fastest is also by Stokes, off 33 balls in the 1st ODI of this series

Roy's series

220

Jason Roy's series aggregate. His scores in the series have been 73, 82 and 65, giving him an average of 73.33 at a strike rate of 115.78

A bat-first ground?

4-0

Win-loss stats for the team batting first in the last four day-night ODIs in Kolkata. The margins were huge too: 153, 85, 95, and 131 runs