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Mumbai (Maharashtra): The all round performance of Abhishek Sharma in the match guided the hosts India to a historic victory over England in the fifth and final match of the series at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
With this victory, India sealed the five-match series 4-1 after having already sealed the series.
Chasing a massive total of 248, the English side was bundled out for 97 runs in just 10.3 overs of the second innings.
Opener Philip Salt was the highest scorer for the side who slammed 55 runs off 23 balls, an innings laced with seven boundaries and three maximums. The wicketkeeper-batter smashed runs at a strike rate of 239.13.
The second-highest run-getter for the visitors was Jacob Bethell who scored 10 runs for his side. All other batters including Jos Buttler, Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone failed to make their mark in the last match of the series. All of them were unable to touch a double-digit mark.
For India, three wickets were snapped by Mohammed Shami ( 3/25 in 2.3 overs) and two wickets each were grabbed by Varun Chakravarthy (2//25 in 2 overs), Shivam Dube (2/11 in 2 overs). Abhishek Sharma, who bowled just one over also grabbed two wickets for just three runs, effectively sealing the fate of the game. Ravi Bishnoi also took one wicket in his one over where he conceded nine runs.
Brief score: India 247/9 (Abhishek Sharma 135, Shivam Dube 30, Tilak Varma 24; Brydon Carse 3/38) beat England 97 (Philip Salt 55, Jacob Bethell 10, Liam Livingstone 9; Abhishek Sharma 2/3).
