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The high-octane ODI series between England and India has finally come to its culmination, with the hosts pulling off a come-from-behind 2-1 win in the three-match series. India put on a complete performance to win by six wickets in the series opener in Birmingham, bowling England out for 258 and chasing it down with relative ease. The hosts responded with a thrilling four-wicket victory, where they bundled the visitors out for 233.
The series finale took place at Lord’s, where England edged India in a high-scoring affair, putting on 387 for 3 before defending it by just 27 runs, with India also putting on a stellar batting display. It has been the batters that have shone in this series, putting their teams on their backs, and here we take a look at those that contributed consistently for their teams, above others.
Here are the top three run-scorers from the ENG vs IND ODI series:
Ben Duckett has been the constant presence at the top of the order for England in Tests and ODIs in the recent past under McCullum. While he has seen five different opening partners, with Jacob Bethell being the latest addition to the list, Duckett has carried on as the enforcer at the top. He scored a brilliant 43 off 45 balls in the first game, with his dismissal triggering a significant collapse. He was dismissed first ball in the second game, but followed that up with a magnificent 141 at Lord’s, the highest-ever ODI score at the venue for a men’s batter. His knock was laced with 18 fours and a six, and formed the platform for England’s mammoth 387-run total.
India’s skipper Shubman Gill has become one of the team’s most reliable batters and has stepped up with performances across the series. Gill returned to Edgbaston for the first ODI, where he scored a whopping 430 runs across two innings in the previous year’s Test series, and scored an unbeaten 80 before being forced off with cramps. The second game saw him score 31 before falling, while he scored a brilliant 77 in the third match of the series. Gill has evolved into a run-machine, often leading by example with the bat in hand, and has been in the runs across the series.
The ease with which England’s talisman scored runs in this series almost made it seem the cricket outside was completely independent of Joe Root’s batting bubble. Root finished as the outright top-scorer of this series, recording unbeaten half-centuries in all games. He scored a run-a-ball 76 in the opener to rescue England from 107 for 6 to a competitive score of 258. He followed that up with an unbeaten 99 as he brilliantly paced a tricky chase of 233 on a Cardiff pitch difficult to bat on. He displayed the other gears of his batting with an unbeaten 48-ball 74 at Lord’s. Root has remained unbeaten in his last ODI innings, scoring 360 runs since the last time he was dismissed. Root is the fulcrum around which the England batting lineup thrives, and he has executed his role to perfection throughout this series.
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