A crow eyes up the start of England's final warm-up match against Mumbai President's XI before the seven-match one-day series in India England win the toss at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium, but Sushant Marathe hits a fine 65 in 98 balls before falling to Steve Harmison Paul Collingwood celebrates his only wicket - Wilkin Mota - and finishes with figures of 1-22 off his four overs Harmison gets increasingly agitated as the hosts continue to impress at the crease before finishing on 222-7 off their 50 overs It's a shocking start. England are immediately on the back foot with Ian Bell falling to seamer Kshemal Waingankar for just six runs Not a great show from the skipper either with a third-ball duck for Kevin Pietersen. England lose their first five batsmen inside 12 overs After his century at the same venue on Sunday expectations were high for Andrew Flintoff. Just five this time in nine balls It's not that bad is it captain? With the first one-dayer against India on Friday, Pietersen has much to think about Mumbai smell victory and with just one previous first-class cap, Waingankar bowls Luke Wright to grab his fifth wicket of the game And that's that. England are 124 runs short, all out for 98 after 25 overs. The Mumbai players celebrate, easily seeing off the visitors Not a great day for England, although they finish with a 20 from James Anderson and an unbeaten quick-fire 24 from Graeme Swann Where's that calculator gone? The scorers rub salt into England's wounds and leave their total eight runs shy of the 98 they finish on
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