
विक्रांत सिंह शेखावत
- भारत,
- 12-Feb-2025,
- (अपडेटेड 12-Feb-2025 08:58 PM IST)
IND vs ENG: Continuing its excellent performance against England, the Indian cricket team registered a spectacular victory by 142 runs in the third ODI played in Ahmedabad. With this win, Team India defeated England 3-0 and clean swept the ODI series. Earlier, the Indian team had defeated England in a one-sided manner in Nagpur and Cuttack as well. This was the first time after 14 years that India clean swept England in an ODI series.Gill and Iyer laid a strong foundationShubman Gill and Shreyas Iyer played an important role in this victory of Team India. Gill batted brilliantly and played a brilliant innings of 112 runs, in which he hit 14 fours and 3 sixes. Along with him, Shreyas Iyer also played an important innings of 78 runs. Captain Virat Kohli also returned to his form and scored 52 runs. This was his first half-century in ODI cricket after 451 days.Dominance of Indian bowlersThe Indian bowlers also performed well and bowed down to the pressure of a big target on England. Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel took 2-2 wickets each. At the same time, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav also got one success each.England's batting flopped badlyThe England team looked completely under pressure while chasing the big target. Phil Salt (23), Ben Duckett (34), Tom Banton (38), Joe Root (24), and Harry Brook (19) got a good start, but they could not convert it into a big innings. Captain Jos Buttler was out after scoring just 6 runs, while Liam Livingstone scored only 9 runs in 23 balls. England's weak batting was also the reason for their defeat in the T20 series, where they had to face a 1-4 defeat.Team India's historic winThe Indian team achieved the biggest ODI win against England in the last 11 years. This is India's second biggest win against England in terms of runs. In 2008, India defeated England by 158 runs in the Rajkot ODI, while this time India won by 142 runs in Ahmedabad.Rohit Sharma created a new recordThis was the fourth bilateral series clean sweep win for Indian captain Rohit Sharma. He left behind former captains Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Virat Kohli, who had achieved this feat three times each.