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Live Cricket Score India vs England, 3rd ODI at Kolkata: England win by 5 runs

India have already won the series after winning the first ODI at Pune and following it up with yet another win at Cuttack

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India take on England in the third and final One-Day International (ODI) at the iconic Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Sunday. I am Kaustubh S. Mayekar, and I will be bringing you all the updates of this encounter. India have already won the series, after emerging victorious in the first ODI at Pune and following it up with yet another triumph at Cuttack. This will be India’s final ODI ahead of the Champions Trophy, which is scheduled to begin from June 1 in England. Meanwhile, England will look to win this match and register their first win of the tour. Ahead of this match, it was announced that the Sourav Ganguly and Jagmohan Dalmiya stands will be unveiled before the start of the third ODI.

Ganguly, a former Indian captain, is also the current president of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). Dalmiya, on the other hand, served for many years as the president of BCCI, before he passed away in September 2015. England suffered a major blow when they learnt that their opening batsman Alex Hales has been ruled out for the remainder of the tour. In his absence, Sam Billings is likely to open along with Jason Roy.

However, Jonny Bairstow has been named as Hales’ replacement for the upcoming T20 International (T20I) series. Both games in the series, so far, have produced 350 or more runs from both sides. In the first game at Pune, England scored 350; but India, courtesy tons from Virat Kohli and Kedar Jadhav, chased the total down with 3 wickets to spare. In the second match at Cuttack, India batted first and put up 381 for 6, after they found themselves in trouble at 25 for 3. MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh added  over 250 runs for the fourth wicket to help India reach a gigantic score. Yuvraj and Dhoni also struck centuries. Despite a superb ton from England captain Eoin Morgan, his side fell 15 runs short.

There is a shadow of doubt over India opener Shikhar Dhawan’s participation in this match. Dhawan was admitted in a private hospital in Kolkata as soon as Team India landed. If Dhawan is unavailable, Ajinkya Rahane is most likely to take his place, which will be his first match of the series. The openers have failed to get India off to a good start in both the matches so far. But the middle-order has, on both occasions, pulled them out of trouble.

Squads:

India: Virat Kohli (c), Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Shikhar Dhawan, MS Dhoni (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Amit Mishra, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Ajinkya Rahane, Lokesh Rahul, Umesh Yadav, Yuvraj Singh

England: Eoin Morgan (c), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler (wk), Liam Dawson, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Chris Woakes

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