5 best India-England ODIs since 2000

#4 Honours even, Bangalore, 2011 World Cup

A run-feast featuring 676 runs, yet a winner couldn’t be decided at Bangalore, where India and England battled out during their group stage World Cup game. Batting first, India rode on the back of Sachin Tendulkar’s 47th ODI hundred, but a familiar sight of the middle order failing halted them on 338. Still big for a World Cup game.

Andrew Strauss, however, had different plans, playing the innings of his life to thwart the Indian bowlers’ ideas. Dhoni pulled out a rabbit out of his hat, giving the ball to Zaheer Khan, who took two wickets in the same over to send the English team reeling. The middle order tried their best, but crumbled under pressure to fall a solitary run short of their target.

Take out Andrew Strauss’ 158, and the rest of the English batsman could only contribute 180 more, highlighting the inconsistency in their line-up.