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India beats England in 3rd ODI series

India once again gained victory over England by 7 runs in a thrilling one-day international on Sunday in Pune at Maharashtra cricket association stadium and win the series 2-1.
England won the toss again and decided to field. India gave splendid commence in batting, top order’s Rohit Sharma played 37 deliveries scored 37 runs with 6 fours and Shikhar Dhawan made his half-century in 56 balls scored 67 runs including 10 fours. Both had a partnership of 103 runs for the first wicket. But England’s spinners expeditely took 4 wickets and the score was 157 runs. 
After that Rishab pant and Hardik Pandya smashed the England bowlers with their knock and made half-centuries. Rishab scored 78 runs in 62 balls whereas Hardik made 66 runs in just 44 deliveries. Both of them smashed 5 fours and 4 sixes. They had a partnership of  99 runs in 70 balls and handled the situation. Indian skipper Virat Kohli and KL Rahul were failed to add runs for the team. Other than that krunal Pandya (25), Shardul (30)scored runs. India had thrown down the gauntlet for England of 329 runs (all-out ) in 48.2 over out of fifty overs.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar gave India a good start by picking up 3 wickets, gave 42 runs and dismissed the England openers Jason Roy (14) and Jonny Bairstow (1). England captain Jos Buttler(15) was out by Thakur and was continuously flopped in three matches. Liam Livingstone scored 36 runs in 31 balls with 4 fours, 1six and Dawid Malan scored 50 runs in 50 deliveries including 6 fours. As Malan was endeavoring to undertake the situation, Shardul Thakur took the wickets of Livingstone and Malan and sent them back to pavilion. Bhuvneshwar Kumar took the wicket of Moeen Ali(25 balls 29 runs), Natarajan took only 1 wicket of Ben Stokes by giving 73 runs. Sam Curran(Not Out) was unbeatable he knocked 95 runs in just 88 deliveries with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes. He had a partnership with Adil Rashid(19) of 57 runs but Adil Rashid was dismissed by Shardul Thakur. After that, Mark wood(14) had a partnership with Curran of 60 runs which made the match thrilling but England couldn’t reach the target and made 322/9 in fifty overs. The man of the match was Sam Curran and the man of the series is Jonny Bairstow.

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