PUNE: Team India rode on century knock by skipper Virat Kohli and middle order batsman Kedar Jadhav registered emphatic win against England here at Maharashtra Cricket Ground near Pune. India took a 1-0 lead in the three match ODI series.

After losing four quick wickets including wicket of MS Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh at 63 runs, Kohli and Jadhav pull off miraculous chase for India by a fantastic 200-run partnership between them as they got total by 6 wickets with 11 balls remaining. Kedhar Jadhav was the man of the match.

A match that aggregated more than 700 runs was finally settled in India's favour with the 23rd six of the night.

Earlier, India had won the toss and Virat Kohli decided to let England bat first stating that he would like to take advantage of the dew that expected in the evening. Visitors posted mammoth 350 on board in a stipulated 50 overs losing seven wickets.

BRIEF SCORES

ENGLAND 350 for 7 in 50 overs (Root 78, Roy 73, Stokes 62) beaten by INDIA 356 for 7 in 48.1 overs (Kohli 122, Jadhav 120) by three wickets.

STATS AT A GLANCE

• Virat Kohli is level with Sachin Tendulkar for number of hundreds scored batting second in ODIs. His 17th second-innings ton matches the record of Sachin Tendulkar, in 136 fewer knocks, while his average when India successfully pursue a score is 90.90.
• India pulled off the joint-fourth-highest run chase of all time, their joint second best and the largest by anyone against England.
• This is the second-fastest successful chase of a total of more than 350 in ODI history.
• Since the beginning of 2016, Virat Kohli has played 11 ODI innings, scoring four hundreds and four half-centuries, averaging 95.66 with a strike-rate of 102.01.
• Ben Stokes' 33-ball fifty beat the 35-ball efforts of Andrew Flintoff and Owais Shah to become the fastest by an England batsman against India.
• The 105 added by England in the final eight overs of the innings is their second highest in an away ODI.
• Joe Root has passed 50 in six of his past eight ODI innings and has made nine 50-plus scores in his past 15 innings.

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