IND vs ENG: Team India defeated England by 7 runs in the third ODI and gave a gift of Holi to the fans. With this, the Indian team won the 3-ODI series played 2–1 in Pune. In February, the English team, which visited India, was defeated in all three formats in 52 days. Won 3–1 in the 4 Test series played from 5 February and then 3–2 in the 5 T20 series.Batting first after losing the toss in the decider, the Indian team was all out for 329 runs in 48.2 overs. In response, the English team could only manage 322 runs after losing 9 wickets. David Malan scored 50 off 50 balls for England. Beside him Liam Livingstow scored 36 and Ben Stokes scored 35.
Pant and Hardik are hero in Indian battingDuring the batting, Team India had lost 4 wickets for 157 runs at a time. Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya handled the team from here. Both scored 99 runs for 73 balls for the 5th wicket. Pant scored the highest 78 off 62 balls. Apart from these, Dhawan scored 67 off 56 balls and Hardik scored 64 off 44 balls. This was the third in Pant's career, Dhawan's 32nd and Hardik's 7th Fifty. Finally, Shardul Thakur scored 30 off 21 balls. The Indian innings totaled 11 sixes, with Pant and Hardik hitting 4-4 sixes. Shardul hit 3 sixes.
England's poor start, Shardul demolishes middle order with 4 wickets- England had a poor start to the series for the first time. For the first time, the team lost wickets in the initial 10 overs. Chasing a target of 330 runs, England had lost 2 wickets for 28 runs.
- Fast bowler Bhuvneshwar sent both openers Jason Roy and Johnny Bairstow to the pavilion. Roy was bowled clean scoring 14 runs in the first over of the innings.
- Bhuvi lbw Johnny Bairstow in his second and third over of the innings. Bairstow, who scored a century in the last ODI, could only score 1 run in this match.
- Fast bowler Natarajan gave England the third blow on the score of 68 runs. He sent Ben Stokes to the pavilion for 35 runs. Stokes caught by Shikhar Dhawan.
- England team was trying to recover that Shardul gave the fourth blow on the score of 95. He LBWed English captain Jose Butler for 15 runs.
- The first umpire gave Butler not out. Indian captain Kohli took DRS (Decision Review System). Under this, the third umpire dismissed Butler.
- Half of England's team returned to the pavilion for 155 runs. Shardul played Liam Livingstone (36 runs), playing his second ODI. Liam partnered 60 runs off 54 balls for the 5th wicket with Malan.
- Shardul continued to dominate the English batsmen and delivered the sixth blow for 168 runs. He demolished England's middle order by sending a pavilion to Malan, who was playing Fifty.
- Sam Karan finally tried to win the match with Moin Ali and Adil Rashid, but failed. Bhuvi first sent Moeen to the pavilion. After this Shardul made Rashid a victim.
- Karan partnered 57 runs off 53 balls for the 8th wicket with Rashid and tried to bring the team closer to victory. Rashid was also dismissed at a score of 257. The team could not make a comeback from here.