Dharamsala: After half an hour delayed start of the fifth and final ODI, England won the toss and put India to bat first. Cook judged the pitch very well and to make the good use of early moisture in the pitch, he chose to bowl first. His decision paid dividend from the third over when Indian opener Rohit Sharma departed while trying to play an outside off-stump bowl and got caught in slips and to add worries to Indian dressing room, Virat Kohli committed the same mistake and James Tredwell took the catch to give Bresnan two wickets in two balls.

After the early loss of wickets, Yuvraj came in to bat with Gambhir who was looking in very good touch and scored five crisp boundaries but his Innings didn’t lasted too long and James Tredwell picked wicket in his first over of the match. On the other hand, Yuvraj who was looking uncomfortable from the start didn’t do quite well and was back into the pavilion very soon.

After the debacle of top order, it was Suresh Raina who did well to steady the Indian innings. He played a matured innings and showed he can bat on any occasion and his two straight sixes were enough to show that he will not allow a fifth bowler to settle down. He did this quite well along-side Ravindra Jadeja who played good aggressive innings of 39 runs before getting out to Tredwell.

Raina kept building his innings by adding valuable runs and kept picking singles and tried to keep the scoreboard ticking. Raina scored eight boundaries and two sixes in his knock of 83 off 98 balls before he was caught at mid-wicket by Ian Bell while trying to pull the ball.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ravichandran Ashwin did well in the end by getting some boundaries and sixes to surpass the total of 200. Bhuvneshwar Kumar played a cameo of 31 runs in the last five overs and made sure it will not be a cakewalk for England.

Tim Bresnan bowled really well to be the leading wicket taker for England and took four wickets. Steven Finn and James Tredwell managed to pick-up two wickets each and did bowl really well in the middle overs to restrict India to a low score of 226.