Ind vs Eng 1st ODI: Rohit's century helps India crush England by 8 wickets

Rohit Sharma scored his 18th ODI century and turned the match into a one-sided affair.

5:41 PM

Over 8: Siddarth Kaul to Bairstow, drives it to mid-on for a sharp single. Roy takes a single off the next ball. DOT ball. Bairstow smashed the 4th ball for six. Fifty up for England. DOT ball. Bairstow drives the last ball to sweeper cover for a single to end the over. England: 56/0

5:33 PM

Over 7: Umesh Yadav to Roy, opens the face of the bat to steer the ball for four in the point region followed by another four. Roy took a single off the 3rd ball. Bairstow too take a single off the next ball. Roy plays a defensive shot for no run. Umesh Yadav bowls a yorker length ball squeezed for no run. England: 47/0

5:30 PM

Over 6: Siddhartha Kaul continues from the other end Roy advancing out of the crease for a clip to mid-on, one run taken. DOT ball. Bairstow plays a on the rise shot for four in the cover shot followed for another confident looking shot for a single in the mid-off region. Jason Roy smashed the 4th ball for four in the extra cover region for four, the ball is in the air but away from the fielder. Roy took a single of the last ball to keep the strike. England: 37/0

5:25 PM

Over 5: Umesh Yadav to Jason Roy, DOT ball. Roy punched the 2nd ball to long-off. Umesh Yadav bowling a wicket to wicket line not giving space to free the arms, another DOT ball. Roy puched the 4th ball straight to bowler, Umesh drops the a hard catch. Roy take a single from the long-off region. Bairstow flicks off the pad for four in the fine leg region for four. England: 26/0

5:19 PM

Over 4: Siddhartha Kaul to Jason Roy, inswinger played straight to on fielder. Roy get an outside edge as he tries to play the ball in the legside for no run. Another defensive shot to point region for no run. DOT ball. Roy take a quick single off the 4th ball. Bairstow tries to play on the up but played straigth to short extra cover. Bairstow plays a good looking defensive shot straight to mid off to end the over. England: 21

5:15 PM

Over 3: Umesh Yadav continues from the other end, Jason Roy played a defensive shot for no run followed by a single in the third man region. Bairstow plays a classic straight drive for four followed by another four thanks to a brilliant cover drive. Umesh came back brilliantly conceding no run. England: 20

5:10 PM

Over 2

Siddhartha Kaul to Jason roy, one run taken. Bairstow plays a defensive shot for no run. Bairstow failed to score of the next 2 balls. A short ball by Kaul pulled away for four in the deep square leg region. Bairstow plays a defensive shot for no run to end the over. England: 11/0

5:07 PM

England innings

Over 1: Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow open the innings for England while Umesh Yadav came to bowl the first over. Umesh first ball got the outside edge of Roy ball and went for four. Umesh bowled brilliantly to concede only 2 runs in remaining 5 balls. England: 6/0

4:53 PM

Stats to lookout in the first ODI

• Post the Champions Trophy, starting from June last year, India have played 27 ODIs against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, both at home and away and at least one wrist spinner has featured in all these games.
• Kuldeep (39 wickets in 20 ODIs at average 20.02) and Chahal (43 wickets in 23 ODIs at average 21.83) have proved their worth since making debuts but their ultimate test will be against England.

4:49 PM

India vs England head to head in ODIs

 

Total Matches: 96

India: 52

England: 39

Tie: 2

No-result: 3

4:38 PM

India vs England Toss

Indian captain Virat Kohli win the toss and elect to bowl first.  Alex has done his side. Joe Root goes up to 3. Stokes at 5. Ben coming in has given us an extra option with the ball, says Eoin Morgan after the toss.

India playing 11: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Siddarth Kaul, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav

England playing 11: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan(c), Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler(w), Moeen Ali, David Willey, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

4:26 PM

Pitch report 

 

"The Trent Bridge pitch yields more runs per over than any other pitch in the world. It's a good surface that's very even with no cracks at all on it. Appears a lovely surface that the batsmen should enjoy. A flawless surface.' reckon Alan Wilkins and Sanjay Manjrekar during pitch report.

4:18 PM

Here are the playing 11 probables of both teams:

 

India: Virat Kohli, K L Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, M S Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Yuzuvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Siddhartha Kaul

 

England: Jason Roy, Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Adil Rashid, Jake Ball, Liam Plunkett, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Alex Hales

4:16 PM

What Rohit Sharma said about India batting line on the eve of first ODI

KL Rahul has made a case for himself in the shorter formats with a string of good scores but his batting position against England in the three-match ODI series will primarily depend on where skipper Virat Kohli wants to bat, said Indian team's vice captain Rohit Sharma. Read more

 

4:13 PM

What will be the batting order of India?

K L Rahul's stupendous form has been a happy headache for the team management and he might get chance to bat ahead of Captain Virat Kohli