After defeating England in the T20 series at home, India won the ODI series as well.
India won the T20 series after defeating England by 5 wickets in the last ODI of the three-match series on Sunday.

India won the toss in Manchester and sent England into bat. Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root both departed before opening their personal tally of 12 runs for the team. After opener Jason Roy and Test captain Ben Stokes formed a partnership of 54 runs for the third wicket. However, Hardik Pandya did not let this pair go too far. He took the wickets of Roy (41) and Stokes (27) respectively in England’s 66 and 73 runs.

England captain Jos Buttler tried to build resistance with Moeen Ali in the fifth wicket partnership. However, Moeen was caught at the back of the wicket by Ravindra Jadeja for a personal 34 runs that resistance effort also went down the drain. After this, Buttler made another partnership of 49 runs with Liam Livingstone, but it was not enough to set a big target in front of India. The English captain was the victim of Pandya’s team-high 60 runs. Livingstone (27) also made his way to Sajghar thanks to pace bowling all-rounder Pandya.

England, who lost 7 wickets for 199 runs, managed to put up a respectable score in front of India thanks to Craig Overton’s innings of 32 runs from 33 balls. They scored 259 runs on the scoreboard before being all out in 45 overs. Hardik picked up 4 wickets for only 24 runs by bowling 7 overs for India. Apart from this, Yuzvendra Chahal took 3 wickets and Mohammed Siraj took 2 wickets.

Chasing 260 runs, India lost 3 wickets in just 38 runs. The first three batsmen of the tourists, Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli, were recognized by English pacer Reece Topley. However, Rishabh Pant’s 113-ball 125 runs in the fourth and Pandya’s 55-ball 71 runs in the sixth innings helped India reach the target with 47 balls in hand.

Pant was the player of the match and Pandya was the player of the series.