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Match report
The player of the match, sure enough, is Reece Topley. He’s the second England bowler ever to take an ODI six-for, after Chris Woakes, who has done it twice – but not as thriftily as Topley, who grabbed six for 24. “It means a lot,” he says. “It makes it all worthwhile, to be honest. It was just over that stand that I had surgery three years ago,” he adds, waving towards the Wellington Hospital. “It’s everyone’s dream to play for England and I just want to pull on the shirt as often as I can.” He’s a bit tongue-tied in the spotlight, but that doesn’t matter because his bowling did the talking today. He made fabulous use of the bounce in a sporting pitch, and his delight, as you’ll see if you scroll down, made some great pictures. A word, though, for Yuzvendra Chahal, the player of the first half of the match. He didn’t deserve to finish on the wrong end of a drubbing. That’s it from us. Thanks for your company and correspondence, and do join us at 11am on Sunday for the final episode of this fast-moving drama. Updated at 20.42 BST And here’s Jos Buttler. “I’m delighted with the response from the guys,” he says. “We didn’t bat at our best but we still put together a score, and the way the guys bowled, I thought, was outstanding. The two guys [Topley and Willey] set the tone.” Has someone dared him to say “guys” in every sentence? “Traditionally it has been a bat-first pitch here,” he adds, “so it was hard to know what to do at the toss, though I would have bowled first too.” Among the batters, he picks out David Willey and Moeen Ali, who “put together a great partnership”. Tis true: this was the kind of game that can be won with a stand of 62. And a guy who grabs a six-for. Updated at 20.48 BST Here’s Rohit Sharma. “We bowled pretty well,” he reckons, “to restrict a team like that to under 250 was a good effort. But we didn’t bat well. When conditions are challenging, we need to adapt.” “For years,” says Tom van der Gucht, “the ODI team was treated as an international training ground for the Test team. Then Morgan happened… Since then, they are virtually two distinct entities. But, I’d love it if Topley used his recent short-form, er, form to force his way into the Test team as a much-needed point of difference in the bowling attack.” Yes, they could do with a leftie. But the two sides are suddenly looking much more alike, aren’t they? Except that the Test team score faster. It’s also very good for the series – in fact vital. England, who were staring down the barrel of another 2-0 when they sank to 102 for five, have bounced back to make it 1-1. The decider is on Sunday at Old Trafford. The player of the match will be Reece Topley, but had he not grabbed all those wickets, it might have been David Willey, who made a fighting 41, removed Virat Kohli and could easily have had a three-for. So England follow a ten-wicket defeat with a resounding 100-run victory. It’s a triumph not just for Topley, who will grab all the headlines, but for Jos Buttler, whose every bowling change turned to gold; for Matthew Mott, who refused to change a losing side; and for Moeen Ali. His determined innings of 47 was worth twice that on a day when nobody else reached 40 and no Indian managed 30. Updated at 20.20 BST
England win by 100 runs!
Wicket! Krishna c Buttler b Topley 0 (India 146 all out) It’s all over. Topley has six! And not just that – he’s got the best figures ever achieved by an England bowler in 51 years of ODIs. Six for 24. He leads the team off the field, having the best day of his life. Topley takes his bow. Photograph: Gareth Copley/ECB/Getty Images Updated at 20.44 BST
WICKET! Chahal b Topley 3 (India 145-9)
Topley gets that five-for! His yorker is far too good for Chahal, and Topley’s tall frame is now topped with a broad smile. He brandishes the white ball, savouring the moment, as well he may after fighting back from some miserable injuries. What a performance from Topley. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Updated at 20.44 BST 38th over: India 145-8 (Bumrah 2, Chahal 3) Livingstone has a retort to Gary Naylor’s one-liner: he bowls a leg-break to Bumrah that turns enough to take the edge, though it lands safely in the covers. 37th over: India 141-8 (Bumrah 1, Chahal 0) Topley continues, bowling his ninth over. He keeps it tight but can’t get that fifth wicket – something no England bowler has done in an ODI at Lord’s since 1997, Mike Atherton says, and he should know as he was England captain then. It was Darren Gough who did it, in the match against Australia that is better remembered for Ben Hollioake’s first fine carefree fifty. “Liam Livingstone is so versatile,” says Gary Naylor on Twitter. “Against right handers, he fails to turn his leg break and against left handers, he fails to turn his off break.” Good line! 36th over: India 140-8 (Bumrah 0, Chahal 0) So Livingstone starts with a wicket maiden, and Buttler has a smile on his face that is almost as wide as he one he had this time three years ago.
WICKET! Jadeja b Livingstone 28 (India 140-8)
One brings two! Liam Livingstone’s first ball is a yorker that startles Jadeja and rattles the timbers. Liam Livingstone clean-bowls Ravi Jadeja. Photograph: Ashley Western/Colorsport/Shutterstock Updated at 20.44 BST 35th over: India 140-7 (Jadeja 29, Bumrah 0) So Topley is still the top gun: he now has four for 22, his best in ODIs. Updated at 19.58 BST
WICKET! Shami c Stokes b Topley 23 (India 140-7)
The breakthrough! Back comes Topley and off goes Shami. This time the slower ball does bamboozle him: he takes it on the full and just plops it up in the air, like Pant, but more so. Stokes has some ground to cover running in from deep mid-on but he manages it with aplomb. Topley does it again! Photograph: Andrew Couldridge/Action Images/Reuters Updated at 19.59 BST 34th over: India 138-6 (Jadeja 28, Shami 22) Carse bowls Shami a classy slower ball that is also a yorker. Shami, rather to my surprise, is equal to it, adding a dead bat to his repertoire. England’s last five wickets yielded more runs than their first five (144 to 102), and India’s are close to emulating them (65 to 73). It’s the battle of the reversible batting orders. 33rd over: India 136-6 (Jadeja 27, Shami 21) Shami launches Willey so high in the air that the ball may well show up on that fancy new telescope. When it comes down again, it lands safely in the deep, and another two are added to the tally. Shami reckons he can win this. “So,” says Brendan Large, “if you go by the old adage that you take the score after 30 overs and double it…we’re going to a Super Over! Yay!” We would be, if there was a Super Over in the regs for this game. Perhaps the so-called Super League couldn’t cope with the competition. Updated at 19.44 BST 32nd over: India 131-6 (Jadeja 25, Shami 18) Although most of the batters have got in today, only two have managed a fifty partnership – Moeen and David Willey, who added 62 for England’s seventh wicket. I have a feeling Jadeja and Shami might do it too. They’re on 30 already and Carse has just dropped Shami – a tricky caught-and-bowled chance, low to his left. 31st over: India 128-6 (Jadeja 23, Shami 17) Off goes Overton (7-0-22-0) and back comes Willey, who goes for five singles. “What does one make of this obsession with willies?” asks Kim Thonger. “Thatcher: ‘every prime minister needs a Willie’. Penny Mordaunt: ‘I think it was Margaret Thatcher who said that every Prime Minister needs a willy. A woman like me doesn’t have one.’ Buttler, very likely, in his post-match interview this evening: ‘every England captain needs a Willey’.” 30th over: India 123-6 (Jadeja 20, Shami 15) Jadeja works Moeen around, cannily. Shami’s not inclined to follow suit: he goes on the charge and lofts an off-drive for six. After 30 overs, India are just about halfway, which is how things used to be done circa 1986. 29th over: India 112-6 (Jadeja 16, Shami 8) Overton bangs it in to Shami, who throws the bat and gets a top edge for four. The next ball, slightly fuller, brings a great big air shot. If you went to a gig with Shami, I suspect you’d witness a fair amount of air guitar. But you’d have some fun too. 28th over: India 105-6 (Jadeja 15, Shami 4) … But Mohammed Shami has other ideas. It was largely thanks to him that last time we saw the Indian tail in action at Lord’s, in the Test last summer, England had a nightmare. He opens his account here with more of the same – an off-blast for four. But Moeen won’t mind that: he has the crucial wicket of Pandya. Updated at 19.23 BST
WICKET! Pandya c Livingstone b Moeen 29 (India 101-6)
Big moment! Pandya tries to swing Moeen for six but, unlike Jadeja, he’s aiming for the long boundary, out towards the Grandstand. Livingstone makes no mistake and that should be curtains for India. That should be that: Moeen removes Pandya for 29. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images Updated at 20.45 BST 27th over: India 101-5 (Pandya 29, Jadeja 15) After that blow to his figures from the four off the periscope, Overton goes back to his happy place, dots and singles. He hasn’t taken wickets like Topley and Willey, but he has matched their parsimony – they’ve all gone for fewer than three runs an over. 26th over: India 99-5 (Pandya 28, Jadeja 14) That pat on the hat may have woken Jadeja up. He swings Moeen into the Mound stand for six with no apparent effort, handing him a dose of his own medicine. 25th over: India 91-5 (Pandya 27, Jadeja 7) Topley (7-2-20-3) hands over to Overton, who isn’t allowing any boundaries – except by fluke. Jadeja, ducking a bouncer, leaves his bat up like a periscope and gets four as the ball hits his helmet, then the bat, and evades Buttler’s leap. They all count. At the halfway stage, India have…
