As rightly predicted by Dhoni after losing the toss, bad light did come into play and India won by Duckworth-Lewis method. Even otherwise, India would have won easily as they needed 43 from 9 overs with 5 more wickets in hand when bad light stopped play.
After losing the toss, Dhoni said to Ravi Shastri, that in one-way it is good to lose the toss because towards the end of the day, the light may fade and bad light may come into play. As righly guessed by Dhoni, umpires awarded the light in favor of the batsman at the end of 40 overs when India were 198 for 5. India needed 182 at that stage as per Duckwork-Lewis method.
India made one change with Ishanth replacing RP Singh. England brought in off spinner Swann in place of Harmison.
Winning the toss in a delayed start match, England decided to bat first. The match was delayed due to bad weather and was reduced to 49-overs. The start was slow in the first six overs, but Bell and Bopara took it to more than 5 runs an over in 13 overs. Bell was out in the 15th over caught behind off Munaf when tried to steer the ball to third man.
Harbhajan picked 3 wickets including a beautiful doosra which deceived Collingwood. He was short of his crease and Dhoni stumped him quickly. When he dismissed Shah caught by Zaheer Khan, he reached the milestone of 200 wickets in ODI. He recently touched the 300 wicket mark in Test Cricket against Australia when he clean bowled Ricky Ponting in the fourth test.
England were all out for 240 in the last over. The start was not that good with Gambhir getting out for 14 when the score was 31. Raina once again failed, bowled by Broad for 1. An important innings is expected from Rohit Sharma to save his place in the side, but he got out for 28. He played well, looked solid, but edged the ball when tried to cut the short ball of Swann.
Yuvaraj Singh scored 38 with one six and got out Flintoff. India were 177 for 5 and needed 54 runs 13 overs. Dhoni and Yusuf Pathan added unbeaten 21 when bad light stopped play.
During the last few overs before play was stopped, India was ahead always in the D/L method. At the end of 40 overs, with 5 wickets lost, India should have scored 182 and they were ahead by 16 runs.
Kevin Pietersen was not happy and was seen discussing with the umpires. Finally he shook hands and moved away conceding defeat.
Harbhajan was adjudged as man of the match for his spell of 10-2-31-3.
Scoreboard:
Match: 3rd ODI
Venue: Green Park, Kanput
Teams: India and England
Captains: MS Dhoni and Kevin Pietersen
Toss: England won the toss and decided to bat
Match Result: India won by 16 runs by D/L method
Series Result: India leading by 3-0
Man of the Match: Harbhajan Singh (India)
Overs: Start delayed due to bad weather; match started with 49-overs a side
England 240 all out in 48.4 overs (Bopara 60, Bell 46, Pietersen 13, Collingwood 1, Flintoff 26, Shah 40, Patel 26, Prior 5, Swann 5 not out, Broad 0, Anderson 1, Extras--17 (lb 3, w 9, nb 5), Zaheer Khan 10-0-45-1, Munaf Patel 6.4-0-36-2, I Shrama 9-0-60-2, Yuvaraj Singh 10-0-54-1, Harbhajan Singh 10-2-31-3, Yousuf Pathan 2-0-7-1, Sehwag 1-0-4-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-79 (Bell, 14.3 ov), 2-102 (Pietersen, 19.1 ov), 3-106 (Collingwood, 21.2 ov), 4-133 (Bopara, 28.5 ov), 5-167 (Flintoff, 36.2 ov), 6-203 (Shah, 43.4 ov), 7-231 (Patel, 46.4 ov), 8-231 (Prior, 46.5 ov), 9-235 (Broad, 47.5 ov), 10-240 (Anderson, 48.4 ov)
India 198 for 5 in 40 overs (India won by D/L Method: Target 182 in 40 overs) (Gambhir 14, Sehwag 68, Raina 1, Rohit Sharma 28, Yuvaraj 38, MS Dhoni 29 not out, Y Pathan 12 not out, Extras--8 (lb 5, w 3), Anderson 6-0-47-0, Broad 9-2-36-1, Flintoff 9-0-31-3, Swann 10-0-47-1, Patel 3-0-18-0, Pietersen 3-0-14-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-31 (Gambhir, 6.5 ov), 2-34 (Raina, 9.1 ov), 3-107 (RG Sharma, 22.4 ov), 4-125 (Sehwag, 25.2 ov), 5-177 (Yuvraj Singh, 35.6 ov)
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