Match Facts
India vs. England 2017 ODI Series, 3rd ODI
Match date and time: 22nd January 2017, 1:30 PM
Match venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
India vs. England 2017, 3rd ODI in Kolkata Scorecard
Toss was won by Virat Kohli, who opted to field first
Match scores: England 321/8 (50 overs); India 316/9 (50 overs)
Match result: England won the 3rd ODI in Kolkata by 5 runs, albeit the series had already been won by India. England’s Ben Stokes was awarded the man-of-the-match award for his 57* (39) and 3-63 (10 overs), while the man-of-the-series award went to Kedar Jadhav for accruing 232 runs in three ODIs at an average of 77.33
| England Innings | |||||
| Batsmen and dismissal | Runs scored | No. of 4s | No. of 6s | Strike rate | |
| Jason Roy
bowled Jadeja |
65 (56) | 10 | 1 | 116.07 | |
| Sam Billings
caught Bumrah, bowled Jadeja |
35 (58) | 5 | 0 | 60.34 | |
| Jonny Bairstow
caught Jadeja, bowled Pandya |
56 (64) | 5 | 1 | 87.50 | |
| Eoin Morgan (C)
caught Bumrah, bowled Pandya |
43 (44) | 2 | 3 | 97.72 | |
| Jos Buttler (WK)
caught KL Rahul, bowled Pandya |
11 (15) | 1 | 0 | 73.33 | |
| Ben Stokes
not out |
57 (39) | 4 | 2 | 146.15 | |
| Moeen Ali
caught Jadeja, bowled Bumrah |
2 (5) | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| Chris Woakes
run out Bhuvneshwar |
34 (19) | 4 | 1 | 178.94 | |
| Liam Plunkett
run out Manish Pandey (sub) |
1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Didn’t bat | David Willey and Jake Ball | ||||
| Extras | 17 (7 wides, 1 no ball, 8 leg byes, and 1 bye) | ||||
| England’s total | 321 for the fall of 8 wickets in 50 overs | ||||
| England’s fall of wickets | 98/1 (Billings, 17.2), 110/2 (Roy, 19.4), 194/3 (Morgan, 33.4), 212/4 (Buttler, 37.6), 237/5 (Bairstow, 41.3), 246/6 (Ali, 42.6), 319/7 (Woakes, 49.4), and 321/8 (Plunkett, 49.6) |
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| Indian bowling | |||||
| Bowlers | Overs | Maidens bowled | Runs conceded |
Wickets taken |
Economy rate |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 8 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 7.00 |
| Hardik Pandya | 10 | 1 | 49 | 3 | 4.90 |
| Jasprit Bumrah | 10 | 1 | 68 | 1 | 6.80 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 5.66 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 10 | 0 | 62 | 2 | 6.20 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 9 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 6.66 |
| Indian innings (target: 322) | |||||
| Batsmen and dismissal | Runs scored | No. of 4s | No. of 6s | Strike rate | |
| Ajinkya Rahane
bowled Willey |
1 (6) | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| Lokesh Rahul
caught Buttler, bowled Ball |
11 (11) | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| Virat Kohli (C)
caught Buttler, bowled Stokes |
55 (63) | 8 | 0 | 87.30 | |
| Yuvraj Singh
caught Billings, bowled Plunkett |
45 (57) | 5 | 1 | 78.94 | |
| MS Dhoni (WK)
caught Buttler, bowled Ball |
25 (36) | 1 | 1 | 69.44 | |
| Kedar Jadhav
caught Billings, bowled Woakes |
90 (75) | 12 | 1 | 120.00 | |
| Hardik Pandya
bowled Stokes |
56 (43) | 4 | 2 | 130.23 | |
| Ravindra Jadeja
caught Bairstow, bowled Stokes |
10 (6) | 2 | 0 | 166.66 | |
| Ravichandran Ashwin
caught Woakes, bowled Stokes |
1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar
not out |
0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Jasprit Bumrah
not out |
0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | 22 (13 wides, 1 no ball and 8 leg byes) | ||||
| India’s total | 316 for the fall of 9 wickets in 50 overs | ||||
| India’s fall of wickets | 13/1 (Rahane, 1.4), 37/2 (Rahul, 5.6), 102/3 (Kohli, 19.4), 133/4 (Yuvraj, 25.3), 173/5 (Dhoni, 31.4), 277/6 (Pandya, 45.3), 291/7 (Jadeja, 46.5), 297/8 (Ashwin, 47.5), and 316/9 (Jadhav, 49.5) |
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| England bowling | |||||
| Bowlers | Overs | Maidens bowled | Runs conceded |
Wickets taken |
Economy rate |
| Chris Woakes | 10 | 0 | 75 | 2 | 7.50 |
| David Willey | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 |
| Jake Ball | 10 | 0 | 56 | 2 | 5.60 |
| Liam Plunkett | 10 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 6.50 |
| Ben Stokes | 10 | 0 | 63 | 3 | 6.30 |
| Moeen Ali | 8 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 5.12 |
Match Summary
The 3rd ODI between India and England was nothing like a dead rubber. Both teams played to win, made only a few changes in personnel in the name of experimentation and served up a thriller at one of the iconic cricket grounds in the world, the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
India brought in Ajinkya Rahane for Shikhar Dhawan, while England replaced the injured Alex Hales with Sam Billings and brought in Jonny Bairstow for Joe Root.
In the end, India lost the Kolkata ODI by only five runs and failed to whitewash England, who held their nerve to get off the mark in India after seven matches (five Tests and two ODIs). Kedar Jadhav very nearly broke England’s hearts again, as his 75-ball 90 kept India on course for a thrilling victory which would have been far sweeter than the win in Pune. India were, as you can see in the scorecard, 173/5 in the 32nd over, with MS Dhoni being dismissed and the incoming of Pandya, and India needing a further 149 runs for victory.
But the Jadhav-Pandya stand didn’t show any nerves whatsoever and rode their luck to keep the game in the balance. England, though, didn’t help themselves by not being consistent with their lines and lengths and allowing Jadhav and Pandya a free swing of their bats.
Mind you, there was no Kohli or Dhoni here, and the pitch was lively and provided plenty of incentives for good bowling, throughout the 100 overs, which is why this victory, if India had gotten over the line, would have been sweeter. Jadhav was playing a lone hand after Pandya was dismissed for a 43-ball 56, as he didn’t take singles while he had Ravichandran Ashwin and Bhuvneshwar Kumar with him. Needing 16 off the last over, Jadhav hit a six and a four off the first two deliveries to bring the equation down to six required off four. But this is where Chris Woakes and England showed character and held their nerve to not concede any more runs, to win the 3rd ODI by five runs.
Earlier in the day, Kohli won the toss and chose to bowl first on a newly-laid Eden Gardens pitch that assisted the fast bowlers, thanks to the conspicuous grass covering.
Jason Roy (65) provided England a good start once again and Sam Billings played a good hand, too, albeit he lacked rhythm. After scoring his third half-century in the series, Ravindra Jadeja dismissed Roy for the third straight time and in identical fashion to how he scalped the England opener in Cuttack.
England’s innings had sizeable partnerships throughout, but arguably the most important one was that between Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes, who, by way of their 73-run stand for the seventh wicket, helped England reach 321/8.
The marquee difference between the 3rd ODI and the first and second one-dayers, was England’s ability to keep getting wickets after they had dismissed the Indian openers cheaply. In Pune and Cuttack, despite having India at 63/4 and 25/3 respectively, their bowlers could not make further inroads into the Indian batting line-up, which, however, thrived when they were pushed into tight corners. In Kolkata, though, the English bowlers took wickets at regular intervals and we can say that they exploited the prevalent conditions well.
The Kolkata ODI capped off what had been a high-scoring and hugely entertaining three-ODI series, which saw a whopping 2090 runs be scored combinedly by India and England.