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Match facts
September 16, Cardiff
Start time 1400 (1300 GMT)
Big Picture
One
more match, 100 overs of effort at best, and India's dreadful tour can
finally be consigned to history. Cardiff was the scene of England's
first match of an eventful 2011 summer, against Sri Lanka back in May,
and now it is preparing to lower the curtain on the season as well. Two
ad-hoc Twenty20s remain to be completed against West Indies next week,
but to all intents and purposes, with the midpoint of September already
passed, this contest possesses a true air of finality.
India
achieved a victory of sorts at Lord's last week, insofar as they managed
not to lose the fourth ODI - a match that was decreed to be a tie by
Messrs Duckworth and Lewis after rain wrote off the final seven
deliveries of the match. As had been the case with the wash-out in
Durham, the arrival of rain probably did India a disservice at that
particular moment in time, given that with Stuart Broad injured, England
would have struggled to rustle up 11 more runs with one fit tail-ender
still in hand.
Given the vast improvement in their performances in
this one-day leg of the tour, it is perhaps a pity that India do not
have at least a share of the series to fight for on Friday, not least
for the sake of the hardy Welsh souls who will brave the autumnal
conditions in Cardiff - and with any luck there will be more than 922
punters in the ground, which was the number that turned out to watch
England's astonishing victory over Sri Lanka four months ago.
Nevertheless,
all throughout this summer, England have proven the more resourceful at
the critical moments of each contest, and the prospect of sending the
World Champions home without so much as a consolation victory in ten
international fixtures ought to be more than enough incentive to keep
the intensity levels topped up for one more day.
Whether India are
quite so motivated remains to be seen. Certainly the team's failure to
attend the ICC Awards in Mayfair on Monday night - despite staying at a
hotel less than ten minutes down the road - gave the impression of a
squad that has mentally checked out of this tour. With the likes of
Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni finding some late form with the bat, they
should have the weapons to give England a battle, but realistically, all
attention is now shifting to the rematch in India, starting on October
14. To win in your own seaming conditions is one thing, but to beat the
World Champions in their own lair would be something else entirely.
Form guide
(Completed matches, most recent first)
England TWWWW
IndiaTLLLL
In the spotlight
At
Lord's on Sunday, poor old Ravi Bopara came as close as he ever has
done to cracking international cricket. For 96 runs and 111 deliveries,
he produced his finest performance in England colours, but then - with
the rain pouring, wickets falling and overs running out - he clobbered
Munaf Patel to deep midwicket from what proved to be the final ball of
the match, and so left England with a share of the spoils instead of
what could have been a one-run win on D/L. Still, he could hardly be
blamed in the circumstances, and his final score far exceeded his
previous best of 60 in 62 previous matches. In the absence of Eoin
Morgan, Bopara has a big chance to prove his true one-day worth in the
coming weeks.
It's been a pretty bleak tour for MS Dhoni, whose
previously unimpeachable status as India's captain has come under
serious scrutiny while his team has staggered from one disaster to the
next. On a personal note, however, he is just beginning to rediscover
his best form as the summer winds to an end, and after digging India out
of a massive hole at The Oval, he combined with Suresh Raina at Lord's
in a record partnership of 169. His personal share was 78 from 71 balls,
and stands him in good stead for the return series next month, let
alone a shot at that elusive consolation prize in Cardiff.
Team news
Stuart
Broad sustained a torn muscle in his shoulder while bowling his final
over at Lord's, and so misses the rest of the English season as well as
the tour of India next month. England's injury list grew further after
Ben Stokes suffered a finger injury during England's practice session on
Thursday. Yorkshire's Jonny Bairstow and Somerset's Jos Buttler have
been called up as cover, although with two spinners likely in India,
Samit Patel could slot into the vacancy.
England
(probable): 1 Craig Kieswetter (wk), 2 Alastair Cook (capt), 3 Jonathan
Trott, 4 Ian Bell, 5 Ravi Bopara, 6 Samit Patel, 7 Tim Bresnan, 8
Graeme Swann, 9 James Anderson, 10 Steven Finn, 11 Jade Dernbach
Through
the arrival of Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane at the top of the
order, and the revival of Raina and Dhoni lower down, India's batting
has acquired a relative degree of solidity in the latter stages of the
tour. As ever it is their bowling that has struggled to contain
England's ambitions. RP Singh put in a shift with the new ball at Lord's
but still ended up going at nearly seven an over, while Munaf Patel's
important over at the death didn't quite mask his previous frailties.
Maybe the time has come to blood the speedy Varun Aaron? They don't have
much to lose.
India (probable): 1 Ajinkya
Rahane, 2 Parthiv Patel, 3 Rahul Dravid, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Suresh Raina, 6
MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 R Ashwin, 9 Praveen Kumar, 10
and 11 two out of Munaf Patel, RP Singh and Varun Aaron
Pitch and conditions
The
weather is expected to be clear for the evening of the match, though
Wales in September is no time or place for making assumptions. When
asked how the wicket looked, Cook replied, helpfully: "22 yards long!"
However, he did concede that two spinners was in his mind.
Stats and trivia
- The
four-wicket victory against Australia at Cardiff last year was the
first time in three attempts that England had completed an ODI match at
the venue, after washouts against Pakistan in 2006 and South Africa in
2008.
- India is the only Test team yet to play an international
fixture in Wales. Each of the first five matches at the ground were
neutral ODIs involving Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa,
Zimbabwe, West Indies and Bangladesh, while the Test in May was the
first time Sri Lanka had visited.
- Suresh Raina needs 22 more runs to reach 3000 in ODIs.
Quotes
"Obviously
I will not be playing any more one-day cricket which I thought I would
not be playing two years ago. I do not think really it is any different
in this game, but it is a nice time to reflect back on what I think was a
pretty pleasing and satisfying one-day career."
Rahul Dravid, a surprise recall to India's limited-overs squad for this trip, is preparing to play his 344th and last ODI
"You
get judged on the results and we've won both series. It's an
encouraging start but I think the good thing is, in the last two games,
we've not really played that well, but we managed to get the result
which bodes well."
England's captain, Alastair Cook gives a cautious appraisal of his first season as ODI captain.
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