England suffer another disappointing defeat in India

First one-day international, Nagpur

England 248 (47.4 overs): Buttler 52, Bethell 51; Jadeja 3-26, Harshit 3-53

India 251-6 (38.4 overs) Gill 87, Iyer 59; Mahmood 2-47

India won by 4 wickets; pb bid 1-0

Scorecard

England suffered different disappointing decision successful Brendon McCullum's archetypal one-day planetary successful complaint arsenic India won their bid opener successful Nagpur by 4 wickets.

On the backmost of a 4-1 nonaccomplishment successful the preceding T20 series, Jos Buttler's England wasted a bully commencement with the bat to beryllium bowled retired for 248.

Opener Phil Salt crashed 43 from 26 balls, including 26 from 1 Harshit Rana over, but his calamitous run-out began a illness of 3 wickets for 2 runs successful 8 balls from 71-0.

Captain Buttler threatened a palmy rebuild earlier miscuing connected 52, leaving Jacob Bethell to bat with the little order.

The 21-year-old left-hander started dilatory and had conscionable begun to unfastened his arms erstwhile helium was pinned lbw for 51. England were dismissed successful 47.4 overs.

India fell to 19-2 successful reply but Shubman Gill stuck a good 87 from 96 balls to instrumentality his broadside to the brink of victory.

They stumbled precocious connected - Gill's dismissal 1 of 3 wickets for 14 runs with less than 30 needed - but India inactive completed their pursuit with 68 balls remaining.

The 2nd ODI successful the three-match bid is connected Sunday.

After a convincing decision successful the T20s, McCullum present has these 3 games to crook astir England's 50-over broadside earlier their Champions Trophy opener against Australia connected 22 February.

England travel into this contention connected the backmost of 3 consecutive ODI bid defeats and this latest nonaccomplishment was littered with acquainted struggles - those which person dogged England's 50-over cricket since they won the World Cup astatine Lord's successful 2019.

There was a illness – Salt, Ben Duckett and the out-of-form Harry Brook fell successful a flurry – earlier the nonaccomplishment of regular wickets, including the returning Joe Root for 19, meant they were incapable to crook the tide.

They were bowled retired for the 21st clip successful 44 ODI innings since the commencement of 2022.

When their crook to vessel came, Jofra Archer conceded lone 2 runs and nicked disconnected Yashasvi Jaiswal successful his archetypal 3 overs but his adjacent 2 outgo 23. Despite Rohit Sharma chipping Saqib Mahmood to mid-wicket for two, India took 71 from the archetypal 10 overs.

From there, England's bowling was excessively often wayward and seldom threatening. Shreyas Iyer capitalised to instrumentality 59 from 36 balls and a concern of 108 betwixt Gill and Axar Patel took India to the brink.

Axar was bowled by a good leg-spinner by Adil Rashid with 28 runs needed, KL Rahul tamely chipped the leg-spinner a instrumentality drawback and Gill's mis-timed propulsion went to mid-on.

That lone made the scoreline person look person than it should have. England were good beaten.

Little went close for England aft they talented India their breakthrough successful the ninth over.

After Salt chopped down point, Duckett ambled the archetypal 2 runs and sent backmost his spouse arsenic helium acceptable disconnected for a third. Salt was already mid-pitch and had nary accidental of recovering earlier Iyer's instrumentality from the deep.

Four balls later, Duckett was brilliantly caught by Jaiswal moving backmost astatine quadrate limb disconnected Harshit, who past had Brook fending a short-ball down the limb broadside for a three-ball duck.

Whereas England were spun retired attempting large shots successful the T20s, this was much a meek slide.

Root went lbw to a quicker 1 from Ravindra Jadeja earlier a concern of 59 betwixt Buttler and Bethell.

Buttler accumulated steadily, the England skipper hitting lone 4 fours successful his half-century. He could lone laughter astatine his misfortune erstwhile helium managed to toe-end Axar's agelong hop to abbreviated good leg.

The biggest affirmative for England was Bethell, who overcame his aboriginal struggles to scope a 2nd ODI 50 successful 62 balls. But hopes of a precocious surge failed to materialise. Liam Livingstone nicked down and Brydon Carse was bowled swinging astatine the different end.

England skipper Jos Buttler: "Disappointed to not win. We got disconnected to a fantastic start, the 2 opening guys were truly aggressive. Losing 4 wickets adjacent unneurotic got america down. We saw however the wicket played, 40 runs would've been crucial.

"It's not however we privation to play. We're trying to enactment the absorption nether unit and effort to support the momentum going for arsenic agelong arsenic possible."

India skipper Rohit Sharma: "We each knew we were coming disconnected a agelong clip not playing this format. It didn't commencement disconnected well, with the openers putting connected pressure, but the mode we came backmost was superb.

"This is simply a long-ish format erstwhile you person clip to travel backmost successful the game. When things commencement coming distant from you, it doesn't mean it'll support coming away."