Ind Vs Eng: England Elect To Bowl Against India

NEW DELHI: England captain Alastair Cook won the toss and elected to field in the fifth and final one-day international against India at Sophia Gardens on Friday.

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Rain delayed the start of the match as it started 30 minutes late from the allotted time.

The hosts look to complete a miserable tour for India by wrapping up a 3-0 one-day series victory over the tourists.

India are seeking to restore some pride in the final one-day international after what has been a dispiriting summer.

They lost the Test series 4-0 and have been decimated by injuries with eight players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Yuvraj Singh being invalided out of the tour.

By contrast England, already ranked the number one Test team in the world have emphasised their desire to get to the same status in one-day cricket.

Dravid, who has amassed 10,820 runs in 343 ODIs at an average of 39, has announced his retirement from one-day cricket after this series and he would be keen to go on a high, more so since the first four games of the series have only yielded 51 runs to him.

The 38-year-old right-hander, nicknamed 'The Wall' for his rock solid defence and consistency, has scored 12 hundreds and 82 fifties in the ODIs and he would look to notch up a big knock to make his swan song appearance memorable.

Aside from this, the match is of academic interest only as England have already won the series. The hosts are leading 2-0 after one match was rained out and another ended in a tie also due to rain interruptions.

But Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men would be keen to get at least a consolation win on what has been a massively disappointing series.

Teams

England: AN Cook (captain), JM Bairstow, IR Bell, RS Bopara, TT Bresnan, JW Dernbach, ST Finn, C Kieswetter (wk), SR Patel, GP Swann, IJL Trott

India: MS Dhoni (capt/wk), SK Raina, R Ashwin, R Dravid, RA Jadeja, V Kohli, MM Patel, PA Patel, AM Rahane, RP Singh, R Vinay Kumar

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