Rashid beats Iyer with a dipping leg-break that turns extravagantly past the edge. England may turn to Liam Livingstone at some stage because there’s a bit in this pitch for the spinners.
With Rohit on 95, England bring the field for Rashid’s last delivery. Rohit offers no stroke to a big legbreak and is not impressed when the umpire doesn’t call wide.
At this stage England were 135-2.
Wood replaces Overton. He’d like a crack at the new batter Shreyas Iyer but for now he has Rohit on strike. After four very good dot balls, Rohit mows a big six over wide long on. My word. He’s one blow away from his 32nd ODI hundred.
An otherwise good over from Rashid is spoiled by a slightly loose delivery that Rohit sweeps fine for four. He’s closing in on one of the most cathartic centuries of his career.
Iyer cuffs a short ball from Overton round the corner for four. India continue to go hard even though they are well ahead of the required rate. They need 147 from 174 balls.
The ball before his dismissal, Kohli was hit by a throw from Buttler, who was angry after a potential missed run-out chance the previous ball. Buttler’s apology was accepted immediately by Kohli and I doubt it had any impact on his dismissal – it was just a beautiful bit of bowling from Rashid. The ball turned a long way to brush the outside edge.
England strike immediately after the drinks break. Virat Kohli stretches for a lovely legbreak from Rashid that ends up in the hands of Phil Salt. He whips the bails off to cover all bases but he’s convinced there was an outside edge. It’s given not out on the field but England review and UltraEdge shows a thin tickle.
A good second over from Overton, who is hitting the bat extremely hard. Just three from it; time for drinks.
Gus Atkinson is having a tough time out there. Rohit flicks him off the hip and past the diving fine leg for four; then Kohli gets off the mark with a gorgeous on-drive for four. Atkinson has figures of 5-0-48-0; he looks out of sorts.
Virat Kohli, probably the greatest run-chaser in ODI history, is the new batter.
Well bowled Jamie Overton! After being hit for two fours by Gill he produced a marvellous yorker that sneaked under the bat to peg back Gill’s off stump. A brilliant delivery to end a delightful innings of 60 from 52 balls.
Atkinson replaces Wood, so still no sign of Jamie Overton. Rohit jumps across to hook sweetly round the corner for four, then picks a slower ball and launches it over long leg for six. This is now Rohit’s highest score in international cricket since the T20 World Cup last summer.
Gill threads two gorgeous extra-cover drives for four to move to 49, then takes a single to reach a beautiful fifty from only 45 balls. England’s best hope might be another floodlight failure because India are romping towards their target.
Gil flick-pulls Wood sweetly for four to bring up the hundred partnership. It was in the air, and the England fielders were briefly excited, but he placed it perfectly.
Rohit then runs down the pitch – imagine charging somebody bowling 93mph – and larrups Wood through extra cover for four. Stunning batting.
A rare poor ball from Rashid is battered past backward point for four by Rohit. This is looking really ominous for England. Rohit is beaten by the last ball, trying to sweep, but his back foot stays at home so there’s no stumping chance.
Gill flicks Wood elegantly for four more. Wood is bowling sharply, though, and almost forces one through to hit Rohit in front. He’s saved by a late inside edge.
The first Powerplay is done but runs continue to flow, with Gill sweeping Rashid flat and hard for six. I wonder whether Jos Buttler is regretting the decision to bat first because the ball seems to be coming onto the bat nicely under lights.
A rapid over from Wood, who is bowling at around 93mph, goes for just three. Gill looked slightly hurried at the start of the over but had adjusted to the pace by the time he pushed the last ball stylishly to mid-on.
Adil Rashid rarely bowls in the Powerplay but England are in trouble and have decided to gamble. It doesn’t work: Rohit sweeps a boundary and then cuts another to bring up a blistering fifty from just 30 balls.
Rohit Sharma captain of India bats during the 2nd ODI India and England at Barabati Stadium on February 9, 2025 in Cuttack, India.
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Wow. Rohit responds to that LBW review with a devastating, wristy punch over long-on. That’s Rohit’s fourth six, the same as England managed in their whole innings.
Mark Wood, playing his first ODI since the 2023 World Cup, comes into the attack. He immediately has a big LBW appeal against Rohit that is turned down. I thought there were two noises but England are going for the review.
Here we go… it’s not out. I was wrong about the two noises but it was umpire’s call on height. England will feel a bit hard done by there as it was hitting a fair bit of the leg bail.
Rohit picks up where he left off, flicking Mahmood off the hip and past short fine leg for four. After all the misery of the past few months, as batsman and captain, this feels like a cathartic innings for Rohit.
There’s another, mercifully shorter delay because Billie Jean by Michael Jackson is blaring out of the tannoy. Rohit Sharma shakes his head with a smile and eventually somebody turns the music off.
A faulty generator has been fixed, all six floodlight towers are working and the game is about to resume. No overs haven been lost so India need 257 from 263 balls.
The word is that it will take around 15 minutes to fix the floodlight problem, so hopefully play will resume at around 1.15pm GMT.
The players are leaving the field while the problem is sorted out. It looked like the Indian batters were happy to continue, England’s bowlers perhaps less so.
Mahmood is able to bowl one ball of his fourth over before the floodlight starts flickering again. If it was completely off it would probably be okay but the way it’s flickering would put the players off.
Theer’s a problem with one of the floodlights, so the players take an impromptu drinks break while it is sorted. It might be good for England to have a few minutes to regroup and reassess.
Gill tries to flick Atkinson to leg and gets a big leading edge that flies for a one-bounce four to third man. It almost went for six, which is absurd given where he was aiming.
Rohit gets his third six with an imperious drive over long-off. Saqib Mahmood has no answer at the moment; nor do the rest of the England team.
Rashid at short fine leg misses a run-out chance with Gill out of his ground after a mix-up. Gill salts the wound with a boundary through midwicket and then survives a hopeful LBW appeal from Atkinson. It was straight enough but there was a thick inside edge onto the pad.
Rohit drives Mahmood devastatingly over extra cover for six more. This is looking a bit ominous for England. Gill gets off the mark later in the over with a leisurely flick-pull for four. England desperately need some early wickets.
Gus Atkinson shares the new ball. His first delivery is a wide but then he produces a couple of excellent nipbackers that hit Rohit on the body. Rohit doesn’t fancy being a punchbag: he runs down the pitch and slashes high over backward point for four. The next shot is even better, a glorious chip over midwicket for six. Rohit has had a dreadful run recently but he looked like his old self there.
Rohit is understandably aggrieved when Mahmood’s second ball isn’t call wide. It’s a cautious start from Rohit and Shubman Gill, who want to assess the pitch before going on the attack.
Saqib Mahmood will open the bowling to Rohit Sharma.
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“It felt like a pretty good surface. The odd ball is keeping low so it’ll be interesting to see whether the dew takes hold and it gets better for batting. Hopefully for us it spins more and gets worse.
Most of the time I feel like [Phil Salt] is the one who’ll get us off to a flyer and I can play second fiddle. But we’re learning about each other and he was very smart today – he saw that I was finding things a bit easier and he tried to get me back on strike. I’m really looking forward to that partnership moving forward.
When you get 300 it’s always a decent total. This is a quick-scoring ground so hopefully for us it spins more towards the back end like it did the other night.”
That’s a good effort from England on a slightly awkward, two-paced pitch. India’s batsmen are good enough to chase anything but England are certainly in this game. The top six all got starts – Phil Salt’s 24 was the lowest score, Joe Root’s 69 the highest – and Adil Rashid played a jaunty cameo of 14 from 5 balls to help England past 300.
We’ll be back shortly for the run chase.
Now Mark Wood is run out, trying to steal a bye to the keeper. England have been bowled out with a ball remaining.
Livingstone muscles England past 300 with a ferocious straight drive for four. He’s dropped by Gill, an exceptionally tough chance, but is run out trying to steal a second run to keep the strike. It was the right idea. Two balls remaining.
He blasted four straight down the ground, was dropped by Gill – an exceptionally tough chance –
Wood fails to score off his first delivery, which at least means Livingstone will be on strike for the last over.
Adil Rashid is run out after superb work from Jadeja in the deep. Livingstone, knowing it was Jadeja, wisely sent Rashid back. No matter, Rashid played a very useful cameo of 14 from 5 balls.
Livingstone picks Harshit’s slower ball and bulldozes it over long on for his second six.
Adil Rashid, always such an inventive lower-order hitter, clubs successive boundaries over mid-off and mid-on. “Get him up the order!” barks Graeme Swann on TNT Sports.
Make that three in a row! He backs away to flash four more through extra cover and move to 13 from four balls. A 300+ score is well within England’s reach now.
Atkinson smears Shami to long on to end his short stay at the crease.
Livingstone tries to launch Harshit into outer space, misses and almost knocks himself off his feet. This doesn’t look the easiest pitch on which to hit boundaries, particularly as the ball gets older. But he nails the stroke next ball, flicking mightily over backward square leg for six. Brilliant shot. Livingstone has such fast hands.
The two main spinners are done but Axar Patel still has over in the bank. He returns and concedes only three runs from an over that includes three dot balls to Atkinson.
Jadeja ends a fabulous spell with figures of 10-1-35-3, including the vital wickets of Duckett and Root.
Gill completes a hat-trick of catches when Overton slogs Jadeja’s last delivery miles in the air. That wasn’t the greatest shot in the circumstances.
Livingstone and Overton are happy to milk six runs from Chakvarathy’s final over. He finishes his ODI debut with figures of 10-0-54-1; England played him pretty well.
England’s hopes now rest on Liam Livingstone and the bowlers. They still have every chance of making 300.
England continue to lose wickets at really bad times. The ball after Livingstone was dropped, a tough chance to the keeper, Root chipped Jadeja straight to long-off. That’s a frustrating end to an excellent innings. All of England’s top five had made a start without going on to a match-defining score.
Chakravarthy returns for his penultimate over. Livingstone stop-edges a sweep that plops safely on the leg side, then Root slashes a wide quicker ball past short third man for four. That was a terrific adjustment from Root.
A loose ball from Hardik is tickled fine for four by Root, a typically classy stroke. Hardik pulls the over back quite well after that, conceding only four more from the last five deliveries.
A lovely yorker from Shami is edged for a single by Livingstone. That could easily have made a mess of his stumps. But again England score from every delivery, with seven from the over in total.
Ten overs remaining; England need seven an over to get to 300.
Liam Livingstone gets off the mark with a vicious back cut for four. One frustration for England is that three of the top five – Salt, Brook and Buttler – have been dismissed between 26 and 34.
Ach, this is a big blow to England. Buttler pumps a slower ball from Hardik towards mid-off, where Gill swoops forward to take an excellent low catch. He swishes his bat in frustration as he walks off, knowing that could be a decisive moment in the game.
Root square drives Hardik for a single to reach a classy half-century from 60 balls. He survived two LBW reviews that weren’t out and one non-review that would have been out, but he has played with the usual skill and intelligence. We’ve been blessed to watch him for the past 12 years.
Buttler whips a single to bring up the fifty partnership from 52 balls.
Mohammed Shami returns to the attack. No boundaries but England score at least one off every ball; they’ll take that for the rest of the innings.
Hardik delays England’s charge with a good over that costs three runs.
England again take five singles form Jadeja’s over. That’s excellent batting against arguably India’s most dangerous bowler.
Buttler plays a majestic back-foot drive for four off Hardik. Shreyas Iyer made a terrific sliding stop but his momentum took him in to the boundary rope while he was still touching the ball; he immediately signalled that it was four. Buttler looks in good touch and has sped to 22 from 20 balls.
Jadeja returns after the drinks break and is milked safely for five singles. England have laid a really good platform here and will fancy their chances of reaching 300.
There’s an LBW review against Root, who missed a reverse sweep off Chakravarthy and was hit in the chest. This looks perilously close – but UltraEdge shows that the ball just brushed the glove on its way through. That touch saved Root; it also means India are out of reviews.
Root moves into the forties with another reverse sweep that beats short third man and runs away for four.
Oof, that’s a jaffa from Harshit, snapping off the seam to beat Buttler all ends up. It’s the first of four successive dot balls. It should have been five but Harshit gave away four overthrows with a gratuitous throw at the stumps when Buttler was clearly in his ground. Rohit Sharma gives Harshit an appreciable rollocking.
Chakravarthy returns and is cracked through the covers for four by Buttler. That’s his first boundary; England will hope it isn’t the last.
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Jos Buttler is the new batsman.
Harry Brook falls to a stunning catch from Shubman Gill! He carted a slower ball from Harshit back over the bowler’s head, miles in the air. It looked like it would land safely but Gill sprinted back from mid-off to take a brilliantly judged catch as the ball dropped over his shoulder.
Root rocks back to pull Axar for another boundary through midwicket. England are starting to go through the gears, with 27 runs coming from the last four overs. Before that they had scored 36 in nine.
A change of pace as Harshit replaces Jadeja. Brook times a delightful boundary through extra cover, then runs down the track to flat-bat a savage one-bounce four to the same area. “He is some player when he hits it like this,” says Kevin Pietersen on TNT Sports. “Ridiculous talent, that guy.” It takes one to know one.
Root pulls Axar over midwicket for four, a fine shot from a ball that was only fractionally short. The next delivery keeps low and almost bowls Root, who adjusts superbly to keep it out.
Hang on, replays show Root would have been out had India reviewed in the previous over! The impact was just in line and it was going on to hit the stumps.
This is a better over for England against Jadeja, with five low-risk singles. They are laying a platform for an assault later in the innings.
Axar goes up for LBW when Root misses a sweep. The impact was outside the line and Rohit Sharma is right not to risk/waste India’s last review. Root drives two and then works a single; he has been more adept at rotating the strike than Brook – in fact Brook has scored of 26 per cent of his deliveries to Root’s 54.
Excellent work from Jadeja, who bowls the first maiden of the innings to Brook. The entire over took just 73 seconds.
Root gets his first boundary, dragging a reverse sweep for four off Axar. Although the last 10 overs have been a bit of a struggle, it feels like England are in a pretty good position.
Brook breaks the shackles with a cracking cut for four off Jadeja. But he almost loses his partner when Root is surprised by a delivery that turns sharply and bounces over middle stump. In fact I think there might have been a slight inside edge before the ball was dropped by the unsighted KL Rahul behind the stumps.
Axar Patel comes on for Varun Chakravarthy and spears four wides down the leg side. England will take any bonus runs because at the moment they are struggling to rotate strike as much as they would like.
Jadeja rushes through another economical over, with just a single apiece to Root and Brook.
Wow! After a slow start, 3 from 11 balls, Brook dances down to drive Chakravarthy inside out over extra cover for six. Amazing shot.
The squeeze is on, with only 13 runs conceded in the last four overs.
Chakravarthy goes up for LBW against Brook, who is beaten by another lovely googly. India decide not to risk their last review. It’s another superb over from Chakravarthy, though, including four successive dot balls to Brook.
So far the spinners have combined figures of 5-0-20-2. The seamers? 11-0-81-0.
Ravindra Jadeja strikes in his first over. Duckett slog-sweeps straight to long on, where Hardik takes a comfortable catch. Duckett has again failed to convert and England are in danger of another collapse against spin.
Chakravarthy continues to keep the England batters quiet. Time for the drinks break.
A fine delivery from Harshit cramps Duckett for room and bounces just over the stumps via the face of the bat. That could easily have bowled him. Duckett, who is struggling to access the off side from such a tight line, improvises to whip wristily over midwicket for four. “What a shot that is!” says Kevin Pietersen on TNT Sports.
Another good over from Chakravarthy, just three from it. England are wary against him, always on the lookout for booby traps.
If Duckett has a weakness, it’s his conversation rate across all formats. He almost falls again between 50 and 99 when an uppercut off Harshit lands fractionally short of Shreyas Iyer running in from the boundary. Shreyas was slightly slow to react and that lost second was crucial.
Earlier in the over Duckett worked a single to reach a terrific, businesslike half-century from 36 balls.
Nope, it was turning past leg stump. That’s a fine bit of umpiring because it looked out to the naked eye.
This could be a golden duck for Joe Root, who pushed forward cautiously and was beaten on the inside by a lovely googly. This looks worryingly close for England.
The end of a slightly laborious innings from Phil Salt. He slog-sweeps Chakravarthy miles in the air and is easily caught by Jadeja at mid-on.
Salt picks Hardik’s slower ball and launches it over long on for the first six of the day. A ferocious cut is half stopped by Jadeja, saving two runs. That’s the end of a very good Powerplay for England – but now it’s time for another trial by spin.
Time for the mystery man Varun Chakravarthy, making his ODI debut at the age of 33. We’re still in the Powerplay but England decide it’s too risky to go after him straight away; just four singles from the over. Even so, this has been a brilliant start for England on what looks a slightly two-paced pitch.
The commentators, Ravi Shastri and Kevin Pietersen, have been very critical of India’s bowling so far. “Short, wide, short, wide, short, wide,” says KP. Hardik overcompensates by drifting onto the pads of Duckett, who puts him away with the minimum of fuss. He has raced to 45 from 30 balls.
Salt gets his second boundary with a cracking drive through mid-off; then Duckett brings up the fifty partnership by flashing Shami through backward point for four more. That’s Salt and Duckett’s third fifty partnership in a row; as an opening partnership they complement each other very nicely.
Hardik replaces Harshit and is crashed past backward point for four by Duckett, who is batting beautifully. Salt, by contrast, hasn’t got going and has just been dropped by Axar Patel. Salt tried to uppercut Hardik but steered it straight to deep backward point, where Axar put down a straightforward chance. That’s incredible. It was so easy that he must have lost concentration.
Shami has an LBW appeal against Salt turned down by the umpire. The ball kept low but would have gone past leg stump. Later in the over Duckett leathers – or rather willows – a thrilling boundary through the covers.
Duckett carries on his merry way, slugging a short ball from Harshit through midwicket for four more. Duckett must be a nightmare to bowl to, especially in the Powerplay, because he’s relentlessly aggressive and can find pretty much any part of the boundary. He has 22 from 15 balls, Salt 6 from 9.
Duckett flails Shami over slip for four before being beaten by some more low bounce. The boundaries are very short in Cuttack and Duckett gets his fourth four with a beautifully timed push off the pads.
Harshit’s loosener is pulled for four by Duckett, who gets lucky next ball when an inside edge beats everything and everyone on its way to the boundary. The rest of the over belongs to the bowler, including a back-of-a-length inducker that hits Salt on the body.
Mohammed Shami opens up for India. Ben Duckett edges his first ball wide of slip for a single, then Phil Salt misses a slap at a wider delivery that bounces twice on its way through to the keeper. He nails the shot next ball, blasting it over cover for four.
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England Salt (wk), Duckett, Root, Brook, Buttler (c), Livingstone, Overton, Atkinson, Rashid, Wood, Mahmood.
India Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Mohammed Shami, Varun Chakravarthy.
This is a blow for England ahead of the Champions Trophy: Jacob Bethell, who played so nicely in the first ODI, misses today’s game with a hamstring injury. We don’t yet know how serious it is, but he must be a doubt for the Champions Trophy; England’s opening game is only 13 days away. Somerset’s Tom Banton has been called into the squad as cover.
England are doubling down on pace. Mark Wood, Jamie Overton and Gus Atkinson all come into the team; they replace Jacob Bethell, who has a hamstring injury, Jofra Archer and Brydon Carse.
Virat Kohli returns for India. The mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy also makes his ODI debut at the age of 33. His List A record is scary: 59 wickets at an average of 14. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Kuldeep Yadav drop out.
Jos Buttler calls correctly and England’s batsmen will have first use of a dry Cuttack pitch. Jos Buttler says England have been pushing in the right direction and need to “play better for longer”.
Former England wicketkeeper Matt Prior was very impressed with Jacob Bethell, who made a composed 51 in the first One Day International, and saw comparisons with Joe Root at the start of his career.
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Hello and welcome to live coverage of the second One Day International between India and England in Cuttack. England need to win to keep the series alive after a deceptively heavy four-wicket defeat in the first game in Nagpur. India reached their target of 251 with 68 balls to spare.
The bigger picture for England is the upcoming Champions Trophy. With that in mind, they would love to see Joe Root, Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone get some runs today. We’ll have the toss and team news shortly.
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