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India vs England Live Cricket score, 4th ODI at Edgbaston: Jadeja dismisses Morgan
Sep 2, 2014
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Gone. The wide leg-slip (or call it short fineleg) has worked. Morgan tries to work one away off his hips and hits it straight in to the hands of an alert Suresh Raina. He doesn’t make any mistake and India get a breakthrough. Though the partnership had stabilised England, the run-rate was still slow. Time for new man Jos Buttler to up the ante.But he starts off cautiously playing out four dot deliveries.
OUT! E Morgan c Raina b Jadeja 32(58)
England finally manage to reach the three-figure mark. Raina starts off with a wide. The batsmen steal a single too. Root then sweeps square for two more. Some intent from the two batsmen to push the scoring rate. But nothing more than singles or twos.
Jadeja has got more turn than Ashwin on this pitch. After a single on the first ball. Morgan then tries to reverse sweep to a ball that spun towards the leg, misses it completely, was inches away from the stumps. Singles on the last three deliveries.
Suresh Raina gives Ashwin a break. Morgan sweeps the first ball and manages to add one. Some good fielding prevents the easy single to Root. Three singles on the last three deliveries.
Jadeja continues. Root punches the first one to long-on for a single. Morgan adds two on the third ball with one going past leg-slip. Jadeja has this habit of darting the ball in one area, but this time around he misses his line, bowls one down the leg-side conceding a wide. Morgan adds one to his account with a single on the last ball of the over.
Single for Root on the second ball. Morgan then plays a dot ball before playing a neat lofted shot over covers for four. A sweep shot on the next ball gives him two more. 50 partnership between the two.
England batsmen are content milking the spinners for singles. Though the run-rate isn’t looking good but they haven’t conceded any wickets.Their partnership has gone unnoticed considering the pace of their batting. Three runs from that Jadeja over.
Single on the first ball for Morgan. Root then plays out the next two defensively before getting one more. Morgan plaes the fifth towards long-off for one more. Root adds one to his kitty to end the over.
Dhoni finally gets Jadeja. Spin from both ends now. First ball from Jadeja pitches outside off and spins in to Morgan. The batsman had walked across trying to place it towards midwicket, gets hit on the pads. Morgan gets a single on the third ball placing towards long-on. Two more singles on the next two deliveries. Root then places nicely on the leg for a couple.
Ashwin starts off with two wides. Root then again struggles to work it away, even gets hit on the helmet tying to reverse sweep. Finally milks away towards long-on for single. Morgan on the last ball pushes to long-on for one more.
Poor over from Shami. He sprayed the ball all around and more significantly allowed Morgan to ease the pressure off him. The second ball was short on the leg and pulled away for four. The next one pitched up and Morgan hammers it for four. Rayudu makes a valiant effort but third umpire rules it in favour of England.
Time for the spinners to trouble England. Ravichandran Ashwin starts off. Morgan defends two deliveries and guides the third for single. Root struggles to work Ashwin away in the gaps. Bot the batsmen need to have a look at their strike rate! Root 50, Morgan 25.
That’s MS Dhoni the clever played for you. The first ball was played by Root fines towards thirdman and was attempting the second run. Dhoni sensing Root will fall short just guided the ball with a deliberate deflection off his glove. Nevertheless, no harm done. Couple on the first two deliveries. Those are the only runs in the over. Morgan still stranded on a 22-ball three.
Dhawal has often bowled that one loose deliveries. Started off with two on the off-stump and allows Root to work away the third ball for an easy couple.Gets one more on the fifth ball. Morgan though continues his rusty stay failing to connect a wild cut shot.
India’s fielding has been excellent when it comes to limited overs. After Raina, Rahane, it’s the third R, Rayudu pulling off a dive and saving two runs on the first ball of the over by Bhuvneshwar, The batsmen sprint for a single on the second delivery. Morgan plays out for dot deliveries. Just three from the over.
Morgan gets a couple on the third ball of the over from Dhawal. Flicks on the legside and sprints for two. A wide on the fifth ball. Dhawal has been on and off target but England have looked circumspect so getting away with the occasional loose deliveries.
Seventh over on the trot from Bhuvneshwar. Yet there has been no let off in his intensity. Finds the edge of Root and it runs past the slips for four. Root then struggles against the pacer. seven overs three wickets for 11 – Bhuvneshwar’s bowling figures.
Dhawal Kulkarni comes back to bowl from the same end where he started off. The first one s touch short and Morgan forcefully plays it towards thirdman for a single. Root quickly adds one more to the kitty. Kulkarni then bowls a probing line to Morgan and even beats him once.
Root finally gets off the mark with a four. Pitched up, comes forward and punches it back past the bowler for four. Still a good over from Bhuvneshwar. The last two deliveries were a touch wide but Root failed to seize the opportunity. Only four from the over.
Morgan has been under pressure for his dry run with the bat. He has averaged under 16 in his last five innings. Starts cautiously against Shami. Gets two leg-byes thanks to a wayward delivery from Shami. The pacer then gets past his outside edge. Finishes off the over playing back to the bowler. End of mandatory powerplay
Bhuvneshwar continues his accuracy and bowls his third maiden over. Joe Root has faced nine balls and yet to get off the mark.
First ball from Shami is pitched up and Ballance drives it past the bowler for four. Looked in complete control of that straight drive. He fails to find a single on the leg-side next ball. On the fourth delivery, Ballance goes for a big drive but misses it completely. The fifth one is middled off the bat but straight to fielder. Ballance tries to play across the line on the last ball and gets a leading edge, the ball balloons in the air, a simple catch for Rahane at covers.
OUT! G Ballance c Rahane b Shami
Ballance has preferred to let go off three away swingers and then plays one rustily towards cover. Ballance finally manages to rotate strike with a single. Bhuvneshwar bowls a wide outside off and then finishes off with a dot ball. Bhuvneshwar has conceded only three in his first four overs.
A nervous Dhawal Kulkarni has been replaced by Mohammed Shami. Maintains a good length outside off and Ballance can do nothing more than being watchful. He finally manages to play softly towards mid-off on the last ball of the over and sets off for a quick single.
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