England V India 2nd ODI Live Score And Updates: England Canter To Easy Win

Vinay Kumar pulls things back a tad for the Indians, conceding only five runs in the over, but it is Praveen Kumar who goes for the runs off Bopara and Cook. Both help themselves to easy boundaries as the Indian body language resembles the one that the fans had attuned themselves to seeing in the Test matches.

The asking rate has come down to less than six and it is a matter of completing the last rites now.

England 156/2 in 17 overs

So as Munaf Patel continues to lumber through to the crease and releasing the balls at speeds less than what most club cricketers would bowl at, the English batsmen look to finish the game off in a hurry. Six runs coming from the over even as the there is deafening silence on the field of play...

England 162/2 in 18 overs

...a silence is broken only with the wicket of Bopara, caught after failing to read the carom-ball and miscuing it into the air. Five more in the over anyway and most Indians would have gone off to their respective beds – it is a working day tomorrow and it is 3 in the night. Or the early morning depending on which side of the bed you get out from.

England 167/3 in 19 overs

Seriously, is Munaf Patel carrying an injury or has he been speaking lately to Venkatesh Prasad. Six successive slower balls – rather everyone was waiting for that elusive quicker ball but Prasad was having none of it. 12 needed off 18 as Cook moves on to 75. A captain’s innings obviously.

England 176/3 in 20 overs

Seven more from Praveen Kumar to get the side closer before England tie the score off the bowling of the slower-than-ever Munaf Patel. Seven played, six lost and one abandoned. Whatever is wrong with the Indian cricket has all come this tour.

England 187/3 in 22 overs

Win. Off the first ball of the last over. The way they batted, even 200 looked chaseable.

The two sides now move to the Oval for the third ODI to be played on Friday.

England 188/3 in 22.1 overs