India field after winning the toss as the first of seven one-day internationals against England starts at Hampshire's Rose Bowl Alastair Cook and Matt Prior open the innings and negotiate the opening overs at a run-rate hovering around four Yuvraj Singh receives a nasty blow to his hand but his fine stop from a Prior cut helps keep the pressure on the batsmen Prior responds by lofting Zaheer Khan for six, but he holes out to Rahul Dravid attempting a similar shot and England are 43-1 Cook continues to nudge the Indian bowling around the field and completes his first ODI half century in the 23rd over Ian Bell meanwhile is bounding along at a run-a-ball as he records his 15th ODI half ton and England are 155-1 after 31 Cook hits his eighth boundary before bringing up his century as England move on to 210-1 with 10 overs remaining The second-wicket partnership reaches a record 178 off 185 balls before Cook is bowled by Rudra Pratap Singh for 102 Bell, who is joined by Kevin Pietersen for the final onslaught, completes his maiden ODI century and ends 126 not out But, despite Pietersen's 33 off 25 balls, England are restricted to just 108 off the last 15 overs and close on 288-2 India's chase gets off to a shaky start when Sourav Ganguly is run out for two following a mix-up with Sachin Tendulkar And Gautam Gambhir departs for three after feathering James Anderson to Prior and India are in trouble at 19-2 England are completely on top and Stuart Broad has two leg before shouts against Tendulkar in the same over rejected But the Little Master becomes Anderson's 101st ODI victim when he clips a leg-side delivery to Ravi Bopara on 17 And Yuvraj becomes Anderson's 102nd wicket four balls later - Cook holds a fantastic slip catch to leave India 34-4 Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Dravid put on 68 in 19 overs before Dhoni gloves a short Andrew Flintoff delivery to Prior on 19 Dravid follows in the next over after sweeping Dimitri Mascarenhas into Prior's gloves on 46 to leave India 105-6 More poor calling sees the run outs of Ajit Agarkar and Piyush Chawla as India stagger and stumble their way to 145-8 Anderson ends with 4-23 after bowling Zaheer and RP Singh is cleaned up by Panesar as England record a 104-run victory
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