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LONDON - India beat England by two wickets to level their one-day series at the Oval today, reaching a daunting target of 317 with two balls to spare.
In a nailbiting finale India edged home when the inspired Robin Uthappa scored the 10 runs required off the last over, striking the winning boundary off Stuart Broad to finish on 47 not out.
The teams now go into the seventh match at Lord's on Sunday (NZ time) locked at 3-3.
England won the toss and elected to bat and recovered from a poor start to smash 114 off the last 10 overs of their innings, Owais Shah scoring an unbeaten 107 and Dimitri Mascarenhas belting five consecutive sixes in the last over.
India made a great start to their replay with Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly putting on 150 for the first wicket. Tendulkar fell six runs short of his century.
SCOREBOARD
England
A Cook c Dhoni b Zaheer 0
M Prior lbw b Agarkar 6
I Bell b Chawla 49
K Pietersen run out 53
P Collingwood run out 1
O Shah not out 107
L Wright run out 50
D Mascarenhas not out 36
Extras (1b, 7lb, 6w) 14
Total (6wkts, per cent0 overs) 316
Fall: 0 20 79 83 137 243
Bowling: Z Khan 10-0-43-1, A Agarkar 8-0-63-1, S Ganguly
7-0-43-0, P Chawla 10-1-44-1, R Powar 9-0-44-0, Yuvraj Singh 5-0-59-0, S Tendulkar 1-0-12-0
India
S Ganguly c Pietersen b Broad 53
S Tendulkar c Collingwood b Panesar 94
G Gambhir c Panesar b Mascarenhas 47
Y Singh c & b Mascarenhas 18
R Dravid c Collingwood b Shah 4
M Dhoni b Broad 35
R Uthappa not out 47
A Agarkar run out 1
Z Khan run out 0
R Powar not out 0
Extras (9lb, 9w) 18
Total (8wkts, 49.4 overs) 317
Fall: 150, 156, 209, 216, 234, 294, 307, 309.
Bowling: C Broad 9.4-1-46-2, J Anderson 8-0-79-0, A Mascarenhas
10-0-55-2, P Collingwood 8-0-54-0, M Panesar 10-0-55-1, O Shah 4-0-19-1
Result: India win by two wickets with two balls to spare.
- REUTERS
