India win fourth ODI, take unbeatable lead

SCOREBOARD

Fourth one-day international, India vs. England, Nehru Stadium, Kochi, April 6

England:

Andrew Strauss lbw b Pathan 7
Matt Prior c Dhoni b Sreesanth 14
Kevin Pietersen c Yuvraj b Harbhajan 77
Paul Collingwood c & b Yuvraj 36
Andrew Flintoff c Dravid b Yuvraj 12
Vikram Solanki b Powar 12
Geraint Jones run out (Agarkar) 49
Ian Blackwell c and b Sehwag 6
Gareth Batty lbw b Sehwag 2
Matthew Hoggard run out (Agarkar) 7
JM Anderson not out 1 2 0 0
Extras: (leg byes 11, wides 1, no balls 2) 14
Total: (all out in 48.4 overs) 237

Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Strauss, 2.5 overs), 2-26 (Prior, 5.2), 3-117 (Collingwood, 21.2), 4-153 (Pietersen, 28.3), 5-155 (Flintoff, 29.4), 6-172 (Solanki, 33.6), (Blackwell, 40.1), 8-203 (Batty, 42.2), 9-231 (Hoggard, 47.3)

Bowling:

Irfan Pathan 4.4 0 27 1 (1nb)
Sreesanth 5 0 29 1
Ajit Agarkar 5 0 28 0
Harbhajan Singh 10 1 36 1
Ramesh Powar 10 0 41 1
Yuvraj Singh 8 1 34 2
Virender Sehwag 6 0 31 2 (1nb, 1w)

India:

Virender Sehwag c Solanki b Blackwell 26
Rahul Dravid c Hoggard b Flintoff 65
Ifran Pathan st Prior b Blackwell 46
Mohammed Kaif c Anderson b Flintoff 5
Yuvraj Singh c Prior b Anderson 48
Suresh Raina c Blackwell b Anderson 21
Mahendra Singh Dhoni not out 10
Ramesh Powar not out 2
Extras: (lb 1, w 7, nb 7) 15
Total: (for six wickets in 47.2 overs) 238

Fall of wickets: 1-54 (Sehwag, 10.4 overs), 2-130 (Dravid, 24.1), 3-152 (Pathan, 27.4), 4-152 (Kaif, 28.3), 5-224 (Raina, 43.1), 6-224 (Yuvraj, 43.3)

Bowling:

James Anderson 10 1 53 2
Matthew Hoggard 9 0 59 0 (3nb, 4w)
Andrew Flintoff 8 0 33 2 (3nb, 1w)
Ian Blackwell 10 1 42 2
Gareth Batty 8.2 0 41 0 (1nb, 2w)
Paul Collingwood 2 0 10 0

Result: India won by four wickets
Toss: England
Umpires: K. Hariharan (India) and Rudi Kurtzen (South Africa)
Third/TV umpire: A.V. Jayaprakash (India).
Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka).

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