India's Virat Kohli walks off dejected after being bowled by England's Mark Wood and caught by Moeen Ali. Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas
Pune, India: Fast bowler Mark Wood grabbed three wickets for three runs as England came back strongly to bowl out India for 329 in the third and final one-day international on Sunday.
Rishabh Pant scored his second successive half century to top score with 78 while Shikhar Dhawan (67) and Hardik Pandya (64) also made useful contributions before India lost its way and was dismissed in 48.2 overs, losing the last four wickets for eight runs in 15 balls.
Wood, who replaced Tom Curran in the playing XI, folded India's innings quickly and finished with 3-34 as the home side appeared to be well set to go beyond the 350-run mark when Pandya and Pant batted together.
Both batsmen helped India recover from a middle-order collapse with a 99-run fifth wicket stand off 70 balls.
Dhawan and Rohit Sharma (37) had provided India with a whirwind opening stand of 103 runs after captain Virat Kohli lost his third successive toss and England opted to field for the third match in a row.
But England spinners Adil Rashid (2-81), Liam Livingstone (1-20) and Moeen Ali (1-39) grabbed four wickets to reduce India to 157-4 before Pandya and Pant revived the innings.
Rashid clean bowled Sharma and then held on to a brilliant return catch off Dhawan’s leading edge in his successive overs before Kohli went for an ambitious swipe against offspinner Ali and his leg stump was knocked back.
Lokesh Rahul, who had scored a century in the second game, was caught at short fine leg when he missed a juicy full toss from left-arm spinner Livingstone.
Pant and Pandya both hit four sixes each and five boundaries apiece before England struck through its seamers.
Stand-in captain Jos Buttler plucked a brilliant left-handed catch off Pant behind the wicket off Curran’s full-pitched delivery and Pandya had shuffled too far across allowing Ben Stokes to clean bowl him round the legs.
Shardul Thakur (30) and Krunal Pandya (25) combined in a 46-run stand before Wood returned and ended India’s hopes of crossing the 350-run mark with three quick wickets. Reece Topley ensured all seven England bowlers were among the wickets when he picked up the last of Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
