India's sixth consecutive victory

India has given a target of 230 runs to England in the 29th match of the World Cup 2023. In reply, England has scored 122 runs for 9 wickets in 34 overs. David Willey and Adil Rashid are at the crease.

Liam Livingston was out after scoring 27 runs. He was declared LBW by Kuldeep Yadav. This is Kuldeep's second wicket. He also dismissed Jos Buttler (10 runs).

Earlier, Chris Woakes (10 runs) became the victim of Ravindra Jadeja. He was caught by wicketkeeper KL Rahul.

Earlier, Moeen Ali (15 runs) was dismissed by Mohammed Shami. He also bowled Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes.

Jasprit Bumrah took the wickets of Joe Root (0 runs) and David Malan (16 runs). Root and Stokes are out on zero for the first time in the World Cup.

Scorecard of India-England match

After a good start, England lost 4 wickets in the powerplay, Root-Stokes' duck
The English team, which set out to chase the target of 230 runs, had a good start. The team had scored 26 runs in 4 overs, Mohammad Siraj scored 18 runs in 2 overs. But in the 5th over, Jasprit Bumrah gave India a break-through by taking the wickets of David Malan and Joe Root on consecutive balls.

After Bumrah, Mohammed Shami came to bowl in the very next over. He gave 3 runs in the over, the next over was maiden. Shami, who was continuing the spell, bowled Ben Stokes on the last ball of the 8th over. In the 9th over, Bumrah again bowled a maiden and on the first ball of the 10th over, Shami bowled Jonny Bairstow.

From 26/0 in 4 overs, England's score became 4 wickets for 40 runs in 10 overs. Shami and Bumrah both took 2-2 wickets. Bairstow scored 14 runs and Malan scored 16 runs, while Root and Stokes could not even open the account.

Indian innings from here

India gave England the smallest target in the World Cup, Rohit's fifty
The Indian team, after losing the toss and batting first, scored 229 runs for 9 wickets in 50 overs. This is the Indian team's smallest score in the first innings against England in the World Cup. Earlier in 1999, the team had scored 232 runs for 8 wickets at Birmingham ground.

At the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow, defending champions England won the toss and decided to field. Captain Rohit Sharma scored the highest 87 runs from the Indian team. KL Rahul played an inning of 39 runs. Before him, Shubman Gill was out after scoring 9 runs, Virat Kohli 0 and Shreyas Iyer after scoring 4 runs. David Willey took three wickets from the English team. Adil Rashid and Mark Wood took 2-2 wickets.

Rohit Sharma completes 18 thousand runs
Indian captain Rohit Sharma has completed 18 thousand runs in international cricket. Rohit has achieved this achievement in his 457th innings. He joined the top-5 players who scored the most runs for India. The names of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly are in this club.

Rohit-Rahul took over the Indian innings, Iyer out on a bad shot; Rohit saved from DRS
After losing 2 wickets in the powerplay, Indian captain Rohit Sharma batted cautiously. The team scored 96 runs in the middle 20 overs and also lost the wicket of Shreyas Iyer. Indian batting in the middle overs for further 3 points...

Iyer trapped in Woakes' trap, out after scoring 4 runs: Shreyas Iyer was out after scoring 4 runs on the 5th ball of the 12th over. Chris Woakes bowled him a short pitch ball, which hit the top edge of Iyer's bat and was caught by Mark Wood. Before this ball, the bowler had asked the captain to get the field changed. That means Woakes had already made up his mind to bowl the short pitch ball. Even after seeing this, Iyer played a pull shot on this ball.
Rohit Sharma saved by DRS, third umpire overturned the decision: Indian captain Rohit Sharma almost got out in the 16th over. The field umpire gave him LBW on the ball of Mark Wood. In such a situation, Rohit demanded DRS. Later, after watching the video, the third umpire overturned the field umpire's decision.
Rohit's Fifty: Indian captain Rohit Sharma completed his fifty in the 24th over. He made a partnership of 91 runs with KL Rahul on 111 balls. This partnership handled India's scattered innings.

India had a bad start in the powerplay, Gill-Kohli returned cheaply.
The Indian team, which came to bat first after losing the toss, had a bad start. The team lost the wickets of Shubman Gill and Virat Kohli in scoring 35 runs in the first 10 overs. Gill was out on 9 and Kohli on zero. After losing two wickets for 27 runs, England's bowlers continued to put pressure on the team.

Interesting facts of India-England match

• KL Rahul has completed 25 hundred runs. He remained second after Shikhar Dhawan (60 innings) in the list of Indian batsmen who scored 2500 runs in the fewest innings.
• Rohit Sharma became the highest run scorer for India in the current World Cup. He left behind Virat Kohli (354 runs).
• Rohit Sharma has completed one thousand runs this year. Rohit became the sixth captain to score 1000+ runs in a year as captain. Kohli has done this thrice (2017, 2018, 2019). Dhoni (2008, 2009) and Sourav Ganguly (2000, 2002) have done this twice. Sachin Tendulkar (1997) and Azharuddin (1998) have achieved this feat one after the other.
• Kohli has been out on zero for the first time in his 32-match World Cup career. He was never out on zero even in the T-20 World Cup.
• Gill was out after scoring 9 runs. This happened for the first time in 4 matches of this World Cup, when Gill could not reach double digit score.
• Rohit has become the batsman who has hit the most sixes in the World Cup 2023. He left David Warner behind. Rohit has 20 sixes in his name, while Warner has 19 sixes. Rohit hit 3 sixes in his innings.
• Rohit played his 100th international match while captaining India. He has won 73 out of 99 matches played under his captaincy, while losing 23. Rohit has become the 7th captain of India to captain Team India in 100 or more matches. MS Dhoni has captained the maximum number of 332 matches.

Average score of first innings in Ekana 260 runs
India is batting first for the first time in the current season of the World Cup. Rohit has lost the fourth toss out of the last 6, while the coin has fallen in his favor twice. The average score of first batting in this stadium is 260 runs. Here in the very first match, South Africa had scored the maximum of 311 runs, while Sri Lanka and Australia had scored the least of 209 runs. Team India could score only 229 runs here.

Both teams entered without changes
On Sunday, both the teams took the field in Lucknow without any changes. The Indian team came with 3 pacers and 2 spinners, while England played Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali as 2 spinners.

Playing-11 of both the teams

India: Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj.

England: Jos Buttler (captain and wicketkeeper), Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Liam Livingston, Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, David Willey, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood.