England end visit duck in last over thriller

Chris Woakes came back astoundingly in the final after conceding a 10 off the first two balls in a 16-run defence as England
ended their tour drought with a consolation five-run victory in the third and final One-Day International (ODI) to stun a near-capacity Eden Gardens crowd into silence. Kedar Jadhav, who scored a heroic 75-ball 90, couldn't find it in himself to close out the game, holing out at deep extra cover off the penultimate ball. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's wild swing met with the chilly Kolkata air giving Eoin Morgan and Co. a belated but much-deserved victory in a tightly-contested battle.

Every once in a while you get days like these in professional sport. Days of never-ending momentum swings and logic-defying occurences. It was a Saturday when the overwhelming favourite and reigning top seed crashed out of the Australian open in the fourth round. A 35-year-old former champion, his best days supposedly behind him, found juice in his post-op knee to progress after a five-setter.

 A few hours after the fact, when Virat Kohli left halfway in a 300+ pursue, you really wanted to quietly wonder about the instability of game. At that point Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni fell, leaving a pursuit of 321 to the moderately unpracticed heads of Jadhav and Hadrik Pandya. In any case, Pandya was amidst a nonsensical day himself - a day when a rank loosener down the leg side got him a wicket and the outside edge of his bat was set up to do all his offering - as India endeavored to invert the center overs stifle. In the long run, even his 3 for 45 and a 56 of 43 couldn't keep India from going down. Since Pandya's fortune met an imposing enemy in Feeds' steadiness.

Also, the Durham every single rounder wa at the heart of everything that went well for Britain, beginning with the guests scoring 58 off the last five, a cheeky penultimate over in the second innings and the early flight of Kohli in the pursuit.

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