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“Kedar’s batting performance in the 1st ODI”, said Kohli, who added 200 runs with Jadhav for the fifth wicket during India’s chase of 351. The duo share a brisk 65 run partnership during which Kohli completed his half-century.

Stokes was declared man of the match while Jadhav won the player of the series award. But he’s a guy with great character, he’s always fighting to win games for England.

For the third time in the series Roy passed fifty and for the third time he was outdone by Jadeja, who skidded the ball as the Surrey batsman tried to make room for himself.

Despite conceding 10 runs from the first two deliveries, Woakes held his nerves to pick up Jadhav’s wicket in the fifth ball of the final over and silence a sell-out crowd of 60,000 at the Eden Gardens to clinch a five-run win. Morgan and Jonny Bairstow then compiled a partnership, with the England captain continuing from where he left off in Cuttack, where his century took his team close to chasing 382.

The T20 games between the two countries take place on 26 and 29 January, and 1 February. Hardik Pandya finished with figures of 3-49 in 10 overs. “We weren’t at our best today with the ball and to bowl to Dhoni and Yuvraj with the bats these days and the five men inside the circle is never easy”, he said. Billings’ departure in the 18th over, to Ravindra Jadeja, gave India hope of curbing the tempo. It was painful at times, not least when at the other end Roy seemed to be playing another game, driving and pulling with savage, whip-crack power. Another reason for Jadeja to be included in this list is because he boasts the bets economy in the series of 5.23.

It was another 300-plus affair as the three-match series went into the record books with a total of 2090 runs that eclipsed the 1892 scored in the Afro-Asia Cup in 2007. We’ve backed him over the a year ago, he hasn’t had many games, but he is coming into his own, he gives Yuvi and Dhoni the chance to bat higher and he reads the game well, its priceless and Hardik is coming into his own as an all-rounder as well. The small boundaries at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune and Cuttack’s Barabati Stadium helped the big-hitting batsmen such as Yuvraj Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni to regularly clear the ropes.

Stokes not only made the difference with the bat with a quickfire 57 not out from 39 balls, he emerged as the wrecker-in-chief with his 3/63 that included the Indian skipper Virat Kohli (55) and a well set Hardik Pandya who got out for a career-best 56. Yuvraj and MS Dhoni struggled to find fluency and scored at just 5.5 in their 31-run stand.