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[Cricket]England's Tour to India; Next match: 18th February
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Mar 20 2006, 07:49 PM
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I'll finish of the updates here in the same way I did the England v Pakistan Tour thread
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Mar 20 2006, 09:08 PM
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if ur gonna do it on here, then do it on ea sports forums as well.
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India v England :: Third Test, Mumbai :: Day 4 of 5
 India: 279ao and 18-1 England: 400ao and 191ao
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England have their sights on a win in Mumbai to tie the series after setting India a massive 313 in the third Test.
Stand-in opener Irfan Pathan fell to James Anderson in an eight-over period before stumps to leave India on 18-1.
Andrew Flintoff hit 50, sharing a stand of 66 with Paul Collingwood (32), as England totalled 191 in their second innings after refusing to declare.
Spinner Anil Kumble bowled 28 overs in the day and had Flintoff stumped on his way to figures of 4-49.
Only four sides have won a Test batting fourth at the Wankhede Stadium, with the 163 attained by South Africa six years ago the highest target achieved.
No team has ever scored more than 276 to win a Test in India and the home side's chances did not look good when Pathan played on to an Anderson full toss.
He was pushed up the order because opener Virender Sehwag can bat no higher than seven after spending most of the day off the field with back trouble.
England had little thought of giving India any sight of victory, though, batting for much of the day with barely an attacking shot.
India looked to contain and frustrate for the most part, with Kumble employed mainly around the wicket and pace bowlers using packed off-side fields.
England opted to grit it out for most of the day after overnight duo Shaun Udal and Owais Shah batted out the first hour.
Night-watchman Udal - dropped on two the previous evening - continued his charmed life for an hour, the inside edge apparently his favourite scoring stroke.
But India controlled Shah, who was only able to hit two more boundaries against a packed off-side field, with two catchers out for the hook.
Pathan finally made the breakthrough, over an hour into the morning session, when Udal edged low to second slip for 14.
Kevin Pietersen was caught and bowled by Kumble, his leading edge eliciting a surprising show of acrobatics from the 35-year-old spinner.
And Shah, on 38, was punished for not backing up far enough in the first over after lunch when Sachin Tendulkar ran round to short third man and scored with a direct hit.
India looked to attack for a short period, but they were soon back to their negative plan.
Flintoff and Collingwood were in attritional mood, aiming to make sure the home side's best hope was to draw the match.
England captain Flintoff was dropped before he had scored then survived three chances in the same over from Kumble, which he started on 14.
Mahendra Dhoni fumbled a stumping chance and a glove down the leg side, and Kumble could not lunge far enough to take his second return chance.
Only when batting with the tail, though, did Flintoff cut loose.
He smashed Harbhajan Singh for six over mid-wicket to take the lead past 300 before being stumped going down the track to Kumble.
Collingwood had occasionally tried to take on the spinners, hoisting Harbhajan over mid-wicket twice for four before offering a return catch to the leaping bowler.
Eight overs later, with only six more runs on the board, the off-spinner was celebrating again as Geraint Jones top-edged a pull to square leg for three.
That may have prompted England's caution, or they may have been looking to keep a shine on the new ball for more helpful conditions on day five.
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India v England :: Third Test, Mumbai :: Day 5 of 5
 India: 279 and 100 England: 400 and 191
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England took seven wickets in just 16 overs after lunch on the final day to clinch their first Test win in India for 21 years, winning by 212 runs.
India slumped from 75-3 to 100 all out, Shaun Udal taking 4-14 and Andrew Flintoff 3-14 as the series ended 1-1.
Sachin Tendulkar made his best score of the series - and the best of India's innings - with 34 before being caught by Ian Bell at short leg off Udal.
When skipper Flintoff ousted opposite number Rahul Dravid, India imploded.
Given their horrendous luck with injuries during this tour, England's victory ranks alongside some of their best in the past two years.
They travelled without first-choice spinner Ashley Giles and then lost captain Michael Vaughan, Marcus Trescothick and Simon Jones within the first fortnight.
The team had to be chopped and changed for each Test, with fast bowler Steve Harmison and opening batsman Alastair Cook joining the list of casualties ahead of the final showdown in Mumbai.
But they overcame adversity in fine style and were naturally ebullient when the final Indian wicket fell.
Flintoff, who led the team brilliantly after being installed as a makeshift captain, was named both man of the match and man of the series.
India began the final day on 18-1 needing 313 to win only for England to take the early advantage with two quick wickets.
Nightwatchman Anil Kumble departed to Matthew Hoggard while Wasim Jaffer was trapped by Flintoff after being given a torrid time by the England skipper.
Umpire Simon Taufel was in the thick of the action, giving both those batsmen out lbw, but also rejecting three other close shouts.
India recovered, with Dravid and Tendulkar taking them to 75-3 at lunch.
But Flintoff removed Dravid with the third ball after the interval, prompting the start of a dramatic collapse.
Udal also struck in his first over after lunch, Ian Bell leaping acrobatically to his left to snaffle a catch off Tendulkar.
Virender Sehwag, who was badly troubled by a back injury, was trapped in front by Anderson for a duck.
Then Udal claimed wickets seven and eight, the first after a comedy of errors when Monty Panesar blew a gilt-edged chance to remove Mahendra Dhoni.
Panesar, who had bowled poorly before lunch, looked set to take an easy catch at mid-off after Dhoni had lofted the ball high into the air off Udal.
But, apparently blinded by the sun, the spinner ducked out of the catch to let Dhoni off the hook, the ball bouncing harmlessly, yards away from the bemused fielder.
Panesar was given the chance to make amends just three balls later when Dhoni tried a similar shot.
And this time he duly obliged, holding his nerve and the catch, to leave India seven wickets down and in disarray.
Harbhajan Singh was next out, slogging Udal to deep square leg, and was followed by Yuvraj Singh, who edged Flintoff to third slip.
England needed one wicket for victory - and they did not have to wait long for it.
After bringing up the 100 for India, Munaf Patel tried to hit the wily Udal out of the ground and was caught by Hoggard at deep square leg.
With the Barmy Army preparing for one massive party, coach Duncan Fletcher embraced every member of his team as they returned to the pavilion.
The players then embarked on a lap of honour with the Indian fans wondering how it had all gone so horribly wrong.
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Presidents XI v England :: Tour Match, Jaipur :: One Day
 Presidents XI: 260-6 England: 255ao Presidents XI win by 5 runs
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Mohammad Kaif's 119 made the difference as England lost a thrilling one-day series warm-up game against a Rajasthan President's XI by five runs in Jaipur.
Kaif hit two sixes and 11 fours to see the home side to a total of 260-6 after England skipper Vikram Solanki won the toss and opted to field first.
Ian Bell (71) and Matt Prior (55) kept England in with a fighting chance.
But needing six off the final ball for victory, they came up short on 255 when last man James Anderson was run out.
England went into the game with a much-changed team following their tremendous win in the third Test against India with regular skipper Andrew Flintoff at home visiting his family and Andrew Strauss, Geraint Jones and Matthew Hoggard all rested.
Paul Collingwood was due to take the day off but was pressed into service when pace bowler Sajid Mahmood had to leave the field after bowling three overs because of an upset stomach.
Home skipper Ajay Jadeja agreed to Collingwood being used as a full substitute, effectively turning the game into a 12-a-side contest.
During his brief stint in the middle, Mahmood did manage an initial breakthrough by removing Jaidev Shah for 10 and Anderson followed up with the wicket of Gautam Gambhir for five.
But Kaif was determined to prove a point after being dropped from India's Test side despite scoring 91 in the opening game at Nagpur and he and Suresh Rainia stabilised the innings with a stand of 72.
Teenager Raina collected 10 fours in reaching 49 off 46 balls to highlight what England will be up against when the serious one-day business gets under way in Delhi on Tuesday.
He squandered his chance of a fifty when he hoisted Collingwood to a diving Owais Shah at deep square leg, and the Durham all-rounder then knocked out Venugopal Rao's leg stump via the inside edge for figures of 2-28.
Despite the double setback, Kaif lifted the tempo with the support of Parthiv Patel (25) and reached a deserved hundred as 87 came off the last 10 overs.
England were soon in trouble in reply as Solanki departed for a seven-ball duck and Shah managed only two before being caught behind off RP Singh.
Kevin Pietersen made a subdued 28 off 43 balls before becoming the first of four run out victims in the innings and Prior's downfall after hitting 10 fours, caught off Ramesh Powar, left England on 97-4.
Collingwood (34 off 37) helped Bell put on 66 and Ian Blackwell contributed a useful 23 to keep them in touching distance of the asking rate.
Both were run out as the pressure increased and the crucial wicket fell in the 47th over when Bell, with spinners operating at both ends, was caught by Kaif off Raina.
Liam Plunkett followed for one in the next over, but England were not finished while Kabir Ali remained at the crease.
Requiring 15 to win off the final over, he struck a six off spinner Rao to being the equation down to six needed off one delivery.
But Rao kept his head to deny Kabir and in the confusion Kaif returned the ball to him to run out non-striker Anderson and end England's innings.
President's XI: G Gambhir, P A Patel, S K Raina, M Kaif, Y V Rao, A Jadeja, J N Shah, R R Powar, V R Singh, Piyush Chawla, R P Singh, S Gill (sub) England: V S Solanki, M J Prior, O A Shah, K P Pietersen, I R Bell, I D Blackwell, L E Plunkett, G J Gareth Batty - Worcestershire and England spin bowler, Kabir Ali, J M Anderson, S I Mahmood, P D Collingwood (sub)
Umpires: S L Shastri, R Subramanian Scorecard
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Mar 28 2006, 03:11 PM
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First One Day International versus India (28th March)
India: 203 All Out England: 164 All Out
So after winning the last test, we were on a high. Could we carry on?
The Teams
England
Strauss Prior Shah Pietersen Flintoff Collingwood G Jones Blackwell Plunkett Kabir Ali Anderson
India
Gambhir Sehwag Dravid Yuvraj Singh Kaif Raina Pathan Dhoni Harbhajan Singh R Singh Sreesanth

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Harbhajan Singh triggered an England collapse to snatch the opening one-day match for India by 39 runs in Delhi.
Chasing 204 to win, the tourists crashed from 117-3 to 164 all out, Harbhajan taking a career-best 5-31 after top-scoring with just 37.
Kevin Pietersen (46) and Andrew Flintoff (41) put on 60 in eight overs as England recovered from 4-2 but their cavalier shots sparked the tumble.
Earlier, Kabir Ali took 4-45 and made a run out as India were all out cheaply.
But England's confidence soon evaporated as Irfan Pathan found some early swing to dismiss Andrew Strauss and Owais Shah in the first over of the reply.
Strauss edged a swinging ball behind and Shah, in his first ODI for three years, only had time to drive a boundary before he was trapped lbw.
Pietersen took 14 balls to get his feet moving before striking the first of nine boundaries, all but two of which came on the leg side.
Opener Matt Prior allowed Pietersen centre stage in a stand of 53 but became the first of five England batsmen to fall to the sweep, four of which came against Harbhajan.
England were preparing to celebrate as Flintoff hit Sri Sreesanth for two sixes and a four in a single over, the first hitting the second tier of the stand at long off.
India were allowed back into the game, though, as Flintoff and Pietersen fell with the score on 117.
Pietersen was caught in the deep, slog-sweeping a full toss from occasional spinner Yuvraj Singh in search of his 50, after the hosts brought their fielders in for their second powerplay.
Flintoff was lbw trying to sweep Harbhajan in the next over as what should have been a celebration in his first match as one-day captain turned into a nightmare.
Harbhajan has taken five wickets in an ODI only once before, also against England in 2002.
He has struggled to recover form after finger surgery a year ago, taking just eight wickets in the recent Test series.
A last-wicket stand of 18 between Liam Plunkett and James Anderson only delayed the inevitable for seven overs.
The two young bowlers had prospered earlier, with two wickets each, as India struggled for much of their innings on a pitch offering variable bounce and seam movement.
There was also a sterling performance from spinner Ian Blackwell, who bowled straight through for figures of 1-24, his cheapest ever 10-over return.
Only when Gautam Gambhir and captain Rahul Dravid were together did India look like their usual dominating selves, the first 50 runs coming at almost a run a ball.
Virender Sehwag had already perished for seven, falling again for England's short-ball plan and top-edging a pull off Anderson.
Dravid, dropped on nought, hit four boundaries off the next three overs, but was stopped on 34 when Plunkett jagged a delivery through the gate.
Ali, only playing because Sajid Mahmood suffered a finger injury, missed a sharp return chance with Gambhir on 13 but had him caught pushing away from his body for 25.
Yuvraj Singh was cavalier as he flashed a loose drive to his sixth ball and got an inside edge onto his stumps.
And even though he was then rested from the attack, Ali was again in action as he threw from long on, punishing Mohammad Kaif's slow response to Dravid's call for a single.
Suresh Raina and Irfan Pathan looked assured together in a stand of 58, surprisingly bettering by 27 the sixth-wicket record for this ground, but failed to capitalise.
Blackwell was stiflingly accurate and broke the burgeoning partnership through frustration as Raina lost his head and miscued an attempted drive to mid-on.
Harbhajan dominated an eighth-wicket partnership with Mahendra Dhoni, who cut to point looking to overcome a subdued start.
Ali completed his haul with the wickets of Harbhajan and last man Sreesanth with successive deliveries in the following over, the 47th.
But Indian desperation turned to celebration as England imploded.
I thought we were past the middle order collapses?
Scorecards
India Innings
Gambhir----25 Sehwag----7 Dravid----34 Yuvraj Singh----1 Kaif----4 Raina----24 Pathan----28 Dhoni----20 Harbhajan Singh----37 R Singh----2 Sreesanth----0 Extras----21 (3nb, 15w, 3lb)
England Bowling
Anderson----2-41 Kabir Ali----4-45 Flintoff----0-31 Plunkett----2-42 Collingwood----0-17 Blackwell----1-24
England Innings
Strauss----0 Prior----22 Shah----4 Pietersen----46 Flintoff----41 Collingwood----8 G Jones----0 Blackwell----10 Plunkett----14 Kabir Ali----0 Anderson----12 Extras----7 (2nb, 1w, 4lb)
India Bowling
Pathan----3-21 Sreesanth----0-39 Singh----0-32 Harbhajan Singh----5-31 Yuvraj Singh----2-32 Sehwag----0-5
Ouch. The next game is on Friday in Faridabad.
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I'm getting my Dad to text me the 2nd ODI score because I'm in Berlin from Thursday!
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Second One Day International versus India
So after the debacle of the first ODI, could we win? Here were the teams:
England
Strauss Prior Shah Pietersen Flintoff Collingwood G Jones Blackwell Plunkett Kabir Ali Anderson
India
Sehwag Gambhir Dravid Yuvraj Singh Kaif Raina Dhoni Pathan Harbhajan Singh Powar Sreesanth

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Youngster Suresh Raina hit a career-best unbeaten 81 to take India to a four-wicket win over England and a 2-0 lead in the one-day series.
Chasing 227 for victory, the hosts lost five wickets for 31 runs before Raina was joined by Mahendra Dhoni, who hit a patient 38 in a partnership of 108.
Earlier, Kevin Pietersen (71) passed 1,000 career runs in just his 21st innings, to tie Viv Richards' record.
Andrew Strauss hit 61 but England lost six wickets in the last 10 overs.
On a slow wicket in Faridabad, the home side got their reply off to a blazing start, chasing an England total that appeared under par.
Virender Sehwag (26) and Gautam Gambhir (29) punished some indiscipline from opening duo Kabir Ali and James Anderson to take 50 off the first 10 overs.
But spinner Ian Blackwell saw Sehwag play onto his stumps, sparking the collapse, and 60 runs were still required from the final 10 overs.
Raina, 19, and wicket-keeper Dhoni, 24, refused to be flustered, though.
Dhoni ignored the chanting of the crowd to go 78 minutes before his first boundary.
Raina, who saw Anderson put down a difficult return chance when he had made 20, thrashed three fours from the 45th over, bowled by Ali, to turn the tide.
After Dhoni fell to England skipper Andrew Flintoff, Irfan Pathan helped him finish the job with four off Anderson.
Pietersen, who was widely blamed for England's opening defeat, played a patient innings but got out just as the tourists were beginning to build a competitive total.
India used all their spin options, with Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj and even Gautam Gambhir - whose first ever international over cost 13 runs - all helping out.
The pick of the attack, though, was Ramesh Powar, recalled in place of seamer Rudra Pratap Singh after missing the opening victory in Delhi on Tuesday
He dismissed key men Strauss and Flintoff, as well as Owais Shah for a duck, gloving a catch to diving wicket-keeper Dhoni.
That dismissal came soon after Matt Prior was lbw to Harbhajan Singh for 33, ending an opening stand of 66, and could easily have sparked a collapse.
Pietersen was put down on three by Raina as he looked to launch Powar over long on.
And it provided a salutary lesson as he went 64 deliveries without scoring a boundary.
Instead he and Strauss manipulated the ball into gaps all around the wicket, making good use of the paddle-sweep, a gentler version of the shot that caused his demise in Delhi.
The pressure was building, though, to convert a steady start into a competitive total as Strauss was bowled though the gate as he went down the pitch to Powar.
Flintoff started fluently but went on the attack to the 14th ball faced, was beaten with drift and stumped - a poor way to mark his 100th ODI.
Then Pietersen went on the offensive, with four fours and two sixes in seven overs.
He lofted Yuvraj for a straight six to reach the 1,000 mark but then got out next ball, flicking to midwicket, and England's lower order were unable to step up.
The third match in the series of seven is in Goa on Monday.
Scorecards
England Innings
Strauss----61 Prior----33 Shah----0 Pietersen----71 Flintoff----5 Collingwood----5 G Jones----22 Blackwell----9 Plunkett----4 Kabir Ali----1 Anderson----2 Extras----13 (4nb, 2w, 4b, 3lb)
India Bowling
Pathan----1-29 Sreesanth----3-40 Harbhajan Singh----1-43 Powar----3-34 Sehwag----0-21 Yuvraj Singh----1-39 Gambhir----0-13
India Innings
Sehwag----26 Gambhir----29 Dravid----5 Yuvraj Singh----18 Kaif----0 Raina----81 NOT OUT Dhoni----38 Pathan----12 NOT OUT Extras----21 (1nb, 16w, 4lb) Did Not Bat: Harbhajan Singh, Powar, Sreesanth
England Bowling
Anderson----1-60 Kabir Ali----0-50 Flintoff----1-29 Blackwell----2-39 Plunkett----1-29 Collingwood----0-19
So onwards and hopefully upwards to Goa, where we play on Monday 3rd of April.
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Fletcher Leaves Tour of India

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Coach Duncan Fletcher has left England's tour of India temporarily to accompany his ill wife Marina back to their home in South Africa. England's next match is Monday's third one-day international against India in Goa, with Fletcher expected to return to the side hours before the start.
His wife's condition was not immediately clear but the couple flew on Saturday from Delhi to Cape Town.
Assistant coach Matthew Maynard will be in charge for Sunday's practice.
Team spokesman James Avery said of Fletcher: "He will immediately return and aims to join the team in Goa on Monday."
Families of the England touring party have been in India for the past fortnight of the nine-week tour, which has been blighted by disruption.
Captain Michael Vaughan, opening batsman Marcus Trescothick, Simon Jones and Steve Harmison have all returned home for differing reasons.
England, who fought back to tie the Test series 1-1, are 2-0 down in the seven-match one-day series after the four-wicket defeat in Faridabad on Friday.
Spinner Ian Blackwell said preparation would carry on as normal for Monday's match.
"The coach is going to be off for a couple of days but we are not too worried about that. The ship's going to run as normal," he said.
Tendulkar making rapid recovery

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Sachin Tendulkar's surgeon believes his most famous patient could be fit for the tour of the West Indies after undergoing shoulder surgery in London. The 32-year-old was ruled out of the seven match one-day series against England after suffering a tear.
But Andrew Wallace, who operated on him, told Test Match Special: "Surgery was fairly straightforward.
"He's made an excellent recovery. I expect he will be back for India some time in the very near future."
India's first one-day international in the West Indies is on 18 May - and the tour goes into July.
Tendulkar was in poor form with the bat in the recent home Tests against England, but Wallace said he had only ever been in discomfort when throwing.
"His batting was not affected and most of the shoulder does not take too much of the force when bowling.
"It's a common injury in baseball pitchers and tennis players - anyone who is doing a lot of overhead throwing.
"The rim of the socket had become a little bit frayed so the ball was sliding out the back of the joint a little bit.
"It opened up a small tear in the labrum. A little bit of fluid was escaping through that tear and created a cyst.
"The main reason for operating was that th cyst was slowly enlarging so we felt it was timely to do it now before we felt there was any danger."
While under the knife, Tendulkar also had his left elbow examined - an older injury which is no longer troubling him. Wallace was happy with its condition.
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Third One Day International versus India
India: 294-6 England: 245 All Out
So it was the third ODI yesterday. Yet again we got a hiding. The teams were:
England
Strauss Prior Blackwell Shah Flintoff Collingwood Solanki G Jones Plunkett Mahmood Anderson
India
Sehwag Dravid Pathan Yuvraj Singh Kaif Raina Dhoni Powar Agarkar Harbhajan Singh Patel

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Yuvraj Singh's 103 condemned England to an eighth defeat in their last 10 one-day internationals as India took a 3-0 lead in the seven-match series.
Paul Collingwood hit a defiant 93 after England had slid to 100-6 but Irfan Pathan took 4-51 as India ended up winning by 49 runs in the 49th over.
India batted first, making a ground record 294-6, Suresh Raina (61) putting on 142 in partnership with Yuvraj.
Kevin Pietersen was out with a stomach bug so England lacked some firepower.
India's score was the best total achieved in six matches played at the Nehru Stadium in Margao, which attracted a fair few England fans from the nearby beaches of Goa.
England coach Duncan Fletcher made it back from South Africa just before the toss, and the tourists made two changes from the line-up who lost in Faridabad.
Sajid Mahmood replaced Kabir Ali while Vikram Solanki came in for Pietersen.
For India, captain Rahul Dravid moved up to open the innings with Gautam Gambhir dropped.
Ajit Agarkar and Munaf Patel (on debut) made their first appearances of the series.
The wicket immediately looked unappetising for batsmen and it was no surprise when James Anderson struck in his fourth over, bowling Virender Sehwag through the gate.
The surface was slow and dry, and with the sun baking down began to crumble from the off - with any score over 200 would have been a decent effort.
But Dravid (46) played with typical intelligence and seemed set for a long innings before Collingwood bowled him off the inside edge.
That ended a more than useful 78-run partnership between the skipper and pinch-hitting number three Pathan (36).
Pathan, who had hit one big six off Ian Blackwell, also fell when tamely giving point a catch off Flintoff.
Almost immediately, Liam Plunkett then had the out-of-sorts Mohammad Kaif caught behind for a duck and India had to adjust their ambitions momentarily with the score on 131-4.
There then came a major let-off for the hosts when Geraint Jones missed a chance to stump Raina off Ian Blackwell for 13.
That would have made it 151-5, but instead Yuvraj and Raina made England pay.
Yuvraj was going at better than a run a ball and after reaching his fifty he swept Blackwell for a big six.
England's tactics went haywire in the heat. Mahmood - with no match practice and still struggling for fitness - was asked to bowl eight overs.
The last of those was smashed for 22.
Yuvraj, who faced just 76 balls, and Raina both fell to Flintoff in the final dash for runs in which Mahendra Dhoni finished with a cameo 13 not out.
England needed everything to go their way when they batted just to make a match of it.
But Pathan's slower balls and cutters saw the innings unravel immediately, with Andrew Strauss, Blackwell and Owais Shah all deceived by the left-arm seamer leaving England 47-3 in the 11th over.
Matt Prior played some nice shots but was then run out after a terrible mix-up with Flintoff, who promptly slogged Ramesh Powar's second ball to deep mid-wicket.
After Solanki had perished to Harbhajan Singh, Collingwood and Jones put on 105 for the seventh wicket, and both played some excellent shots.
The wicket appeared to have flattened down a little and for a short while the two right-handers were scoring at around 11 runs an over, the required rate.
But when each man was caught in the deep trying to hit sixes the fun was over for the day.
Scorecards
India Innings
Sehwag----15 Dravid----46 Pathan----36 Yuvraj Singh----103 Kaif----0 Raina----61 Dhoni----13 Powar----1 Extras----19 (2nb, 14w, 3lb) Did Not Bat: Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh, Patel
England Bowling
Anderson----1-40 Mahmood----0-66 Flintoff----3-56 Plunkett----1-39 Blackwell----0-42 Collingwood----1-31 Solanki----0-17
England Innings
Strauss----7 Prior----37 Blackwell----9 Shah----7 Flintoff----15 Collingwood----93 Solanki----10 G Jones----32 Plunkett----18 Mahmood----8 Anderson----2 Extras----7 (2nb, 3w, 2lb)
India Bowling
Pathan----4-51 Patel----0-47 Agarkar----2-34 Harbhajan Singh----2-47 Powar----1-45 Yuvraj Singh----0-19
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Fourth One Day International versus India
England: 237 All Out India: 238-6
So this was the 4th of 7 ODIs on this tour. A win, and we would be back in the series. A loss would hand the series to India. The teams were:
England
Strauss Prior Pietersen Collingwood Flintoff Solanki G Jones Blackwell Gareth Batty - Worcestershire and England spin bowler Hoggard Anderson
India
Sehwag Dravid Pathan Kaif Yuvraj Singh Raina Dhoni Powar Harbhajan Singh Agarkar Sreesanth

Scorecards
England Innings
Strauss----7 Prior----14 Pietersen----77 Collingwood----36 Flintoff----12 Solanki----12 G Jones----49 Blackwell----6 Gareth Batty - Worcestershire and England spin bowler----2 Hoggard----7 Anderson----1 Extras----14 (2nb, 1w, 11lb)
India Bowling
Pathan----1-27 Sreesanth----1-29 Agarkar----0-28 Harbhajan Singh----1-36 Powar----1-41 Yuvraj Singh----2-34 Sehwag----2-31
India Innings
Sehwag----26 Dravid----65 Pathan----46 Kaif----5 Yuvraj Singh----48 Raina----21 Dhoni----10 Powar----2 Extras----15 (7nb, 7w, 1lb) Did Not Bat: Harbhajan Singh, Agarkar, Sreesanth
England Bowling
Anderson----2-53 Hoggard----0-59 Flintoff----2-33 Blackwell----2-41 Gareth Batty - Worcestershire and England spin bowler----0-41 Collingwood----0-10
So that's the series gone. Our next game is on Sunday in Guwahati.
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Damn it, lost the series. Do you think England and India will rest key players now? Or not?
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i reckon india might. its unlikely for england to rest anyone. panesar and cook should have been kept for the one dayers rather than discarded after doing so well in the tests
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Panesar is more of a Test player like Hoggard (although the latter is in the ODI squad <_<)
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