India Vs England 2021: India won first ODI Match against England | Debutantes Krunal Pandya & Prasidh Krishna Shines
India has won the first ODI against England by 66 runs. The star of the show here with 2 debutantes. Krunal Pandya did what he did with the bat to hit a 31 ball unbeaten 58 runs. Right-Arm Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna got India back in the game with a dream performance with the ball to pick four wickets and help India bundle up England all out for 251.
Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were slow off the gloves but somehow survived the first hour. It seemed that these 2 batsmen had done the initial hard work and make cash in. Rohit edged a wide delivery from Ben Stokes. Indian Captain Virat Kohli joined Dhawan and the run rate picked up.
Shikhar was the first to reach his half-century and soon Virat also joined him. Indian Captain looked excited for his 71st International century, but it wasn’t to be and he was dismissed for a 60 ball 56 runs. Dhawan also lost Shreyas Iyer soon after, and couldn’t get much off strike for quite some time, spending a lot of time in the 90s eventually missing out on 100 by just a couple of runs.
Krunal Pandya got a well-deserved half-century off 27 deliveries fastest by any batsman on debut in ODI and then KL Rahul also got to his 50 to get himself back in form. Their unbroken 112 runs stand for the sixth wicket took India to 317 runs for 5 wickets.
England came out all guns blazing with Jonny Bairstow in his beast mode and they had 100 on the board in the 12th over. Prasidh Krishna who took a major beating in his first spell came back strongly to give India their first breakthrough with a wicket of Jason Roy.
In the next over he had Ben Stokes, and it could have been another wicket off the very next delivery but Virat dropped the catch. Shardul Thakur also got into the act of removing the dangerous Jonny Bairstow, six short of his century. And then in the very next over he had Eoin Morgan and Jos Buttler to leave England at 176 for five wickets.
Once again when a partnership was developing Prasidh Krishna broke it, dismissing Sam Billings, with England still needing 101 runs. England had the run rate under control but it was the wickets that India targeted and eventually got the job done to beat the world champions in their own game.
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