Rahul Dravid wins the toss for India and the tourists choose to bowl first at a sunny but slightly chilly Edgbaston Alastair Cook makes steady progress alongside fellow opener Matt Prior as England reach 48-0 from 10 overs The openers build a solid platform before Prior slices Munaf Patel to backward-point for 34 with England 76-1 India's spinners come on and Ramesh Powar removes Cook for 40 before Kevin Pietersen is stumped off Piyush Chawla Chawla celebrates the crucial wicket of Pietersen as India put the brakes on with England at 118-3 in the 24th over Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell regroup but England's captain falls for 44 when a reverse sweep spoons to short third-man Bell reaches his third successive one-day 50 and Owais Shah enjoys a fiery duel with Yuvraj Singh before departing for 19 Bell is caught for 79 but cameos from Stuart Broad, Chris Tremlett and Ravi Bopara lift England to 281-8 after 50 overs Sourav Ganguly opens with a flurry of fours but Sachin Tendulkar cuts James Anderson to Collingwood for eight India then slump to 36-2 when Dinesh Karthik punches a short and wide delivery from Broad straight to Cook at cover Ganguly looks in good touch and is joined by Dravid as some wayward bowling from Chris Tremlett keeps India in the hunt Both batsmen pass 50 and look well set until Dravid inside edges Tremlett onto his stumps to leave India at 140-3 A lifting delivery from Tremlett has Ganguly well caught by Prior for 72 and leaves MS Dhoni and Yuvraj with work to do India look poised for the chase but Dhoni smacks Anderson straight to Collingwood to make it 190-5 in the 39th over And two catches from Bell account for Powar and Chawla, although Yuvraj still looks threatening at the other end But when more good work from Bell means Yuvraj is run out on 45, the game is up for India at 214-8 in the 44th over Zaheer Khan then falls to Monty Panesar and Anderson bowls Patel to seal a 42-run win and 2-1 series lead for England
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