Gill leads the best way with a chic century as India routs England within the third ODI

Shubman Gill hammered his seventh century as India thrashed England within the third and remaining ODI in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
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The Indian workforce celebrates the collection win.
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VIJAY SONEJI

Notion issues. It’s not nearly profitable matches but additionally the way you win them. On Wednesday on the Narendra Modi Stadium, India confirmed, but once more, how this was finished with a masterful 142-run thrashing of England within the third and remaining ODI.

If a settled batting unit led by the chic Shubman Gill (112, 102b, 14×4, 3×6) placed on a mammoth 356, a rejigged bowling line-up – Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav and Arshdeep Singh coming in for Varun Chakaravarthy (sore calf), Ravindra Jadeja and Mohammed Shami (each rested) – dismissed England for a paltry 214 to finish a 3-0 whitewash forward of the Champions Trophy.

For a 3rd straight time this collection, England was off to a racy begin with Ben Duckett (34, 22b, 8×4) and Phil Salt (23, 21b, 4×4) scoring at 10 runs an over within the first six. However Arshdeep excised each batters in successive overs with wonderful slower deliveries.

Tom Banton (38, 41b, 4×4, 2×6) and Joe Root (24, 29b, 2×4) resisted, with the previous taking part in a few audacious reverse sweeps. However Kuldeep had Banton edge behind a flighted mistaken’un earlier than Axar Patel pressured Root to cut one on. When frontline pacer Harshit Rana returned to ship again Jos Buttler and Harry Brook, it was throughout.

After being put into bat, India rode on Gill’s seventh ODI ton. It appeared like he knew the Modi Stadium just like the again of his hand, for he has now scored a whole lot in all three codecs right here. And this mirrored in the best way the 25-year-old explored each space of the bottom, driving, flicking, jabbing and even late-cutting his manner by means of.

Initially, Gill routinely stepped out to negate the considerable seam motion. And as soon as he settled, he blossomed. Speedster Gus Atkinson was straight-driven and lofted over his head whereas spinners Liam Livingstone and Adil Rashid have been whipped, steered and milked all around the floor. Such was Gill’s onslaught that 77 of the 112 runs he scored got here off the trio.

If a sweetly pushed boundary to the extra-cover fence off Rashid introduced Gill his fifty, the hundred was had with an impressive flick to the mid-wicket fence off Mark Wooden. Virat Kohli (52, 55b, 7×4, 1×6) and Shreyas Iyer (78, 64b, 8×4, 2×6) supported their vice-captain nicely, combining for 116 second-wicket runs and 104 for the third respectively.

Kohli was not at his imperious greatest however he’s at a stage the place he’ll take runs whichever manner they arrive. However he did execute a few pleasing drives and a trademark whip within the mid-wicket area. Shreyas’ greatest strokes have been the pick-up photographs he hit behind sq. on the leg-side.

Rashid was England’s most threatening bowler (4/64), however he was removed from regular, zoning out and in. He bowled magic deliveries to have Kohli caught-behind and Hardik Pandya bowled but additionally landed rank unhealthy half-volleys and quick balls that have been deservedly flogged.

The guests did pull issues again within the remaining 15 overs by limiting India to 356 after the latter was 226 for 2 within the thirty fifth over. However with one other below-par batting effort, they shot themselves within the foot.