LONDON: Jasprit Bumrah routed the top order as India thrashed 50-over world champions England by 10 wickets in the first One-day International here at The Oval on Tuesday.

Fast bowler Bumrah took a career-best 6-19 as the hosts were dismissed for just 110 in 25.2 overs.

India captain Rohit Sharma, who won a good toss, then made an unbeaten 76 before Shikhar Dhawan (31 not out) cut Brydon Carse for four as the tourists finished on 114-0 with more than 31 overs to spare.

The victory gave 2023 World Cup hosts India a 1-0 lead in a three-match series that continues at Lord’s on Thursday.

Bumrah produced an opening burst of 4-9 in five overs against an England side featuring arguably their strongest batting line-up at this level since their 2019 World Cup final triumph.

England avoided the embarrassment of being dismissed for less than their record low completed ODI score of 86 all out against Australia at Old Trafford in 2001.

But an innings featuring four ducks in the tops six — Jason Roy, Joe Root, Ben Stokes and Liam Livingstone were all out for nought — saw England bowled out with nearly half of their 50 overs remaining.

Bumrah, 28, returned to clean up Brydon Carse and David Willey to surpass his only other five-wicket haul of his 71 match ODI career — 5-27 against Sri Lanka at Pallekelle five years ago.

Mohammed Shami took 3-31 in seven overs as he became the fastest Indian and joint-third fastest to 150 ODI wickets in matches played on his 80th appearance.

England’s innings boasted just four double-figure contributions, captain Jos Buttler top-scoring with 30 and Willey managing 21.

This was England’s sixth ODI defeat by 10 wickets and their heaviest defeat at home when batting first.

Buttler has now lost three out of four games since succeeding Eoin Morgan as England’s full-time white-ball skipper.

The tone was set when Roy played on trying to drive Bumrah’s fourth ball of the day.

Two balls later, Root was undone by a Bumrah delivery that lifted off a good length.

And in the next over Test captain Stokes fell for a golden duck when an inside edge off Shami was brilliantly caught by diving wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant.

Jonny Bairstow, fresh from two hundreds in England’s seven-wicket win in the Covid-delayed fifth Test against India at Edgbaston, then fell for seven, caught behind off Bumrah.

Bairstow, Root and Stokes all missed the recent T20 series which India won 2-1.

This was the first time the star trio had played a 50-over international together since England’s World Cup final win over New Zealand three years ago.

They managed just seven runs between them.

England were 26-5 in the eighth over when Livingstone, walking across his crease, was clean bowled leg-stump by Bumrah.

Buttler tried to turn the tide, hitting six fours, only to hoist Shami to deep square leg, where Suryakumar Yadav held a well-judged catch just inside the rope.

No. 11 Reece Topley drove leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for England’s lone six but two balls later the innings was over when Bumrah bowled Willey with a thunderbolt yorker.

Rohit was quickly into his stride and went to fifty in style when he hooked Carse for a third six in just 49 balls faced.

Scoreboard

ENGLAND:

J. Roy b Bumrah 0

J. Bairstow c Pant b Bumrah 7

J. Root c Pant b Bumrah 0

B. Stokes c Pant b Shami 0

J. Buttler c Yadav b Shami 30

L. Livingstone b Bumrah 0

Moeen Ali c & b Krishna 14

D. Willey b Bumrah 21

C. Overton b Shami 8

B. Carse b Bumrah 15

R. Topley not out 6

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-7) 9

TOTAL (all out, 25.2 overs) 110

FALL OF WICKETS: 1-6 (Roy), 2-6 (Root), 3-7 (Stokes), 4-17 (Bairstow), 5-26 (Livingstone), 6-53 (Moeen Ali), 7-59 (Buttler), 8-68 (Overton), 9-103 (Carse)

BOWLING Mohammed Shami 7-0-31-3 (1w),Bumrah 7.2-3-19-6 (2w), Pandya 4-0-22-0, Krishna 5-0-26-1, Chahal 2-0-10-0

INDIA:

R. Sharma not out 76

S. Dhawan not out 31

EXTRAS (LB-2, W-5) 7

TOTAL (for no wicket, 18.4 overs) 114

DID NOT BAT: Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna

BOWLING :Willey 3-0-8-0, Topley 5-3-22-0 (1w),Overton 4-0-34-0 (3w), Carse 3.4-0-38-0 (1w), Stokes 1-0-1-0, Moeen Ali 2-0-9-0

Published in Dawn, July 13th, 2022