5 best India-England ODIs since 2000

#2 Ganguly’s men choke, Wankhede, 2002

The catalyst for Sourav Ganguly’s ecstatic balcony celebration at Lord’s was Andrew Flintoff’s own rendition at the Wankhede earlier that year. England desperately needed a win to bring the series on even terms. Marcus Trescothick gave them the perfect start, but the rest of the team couldn’t contribute as well. Eventually, they reached 255.

A steady start suddenly turned nightmarish when the middle order crumbled like a soggy biscuit in tea, leaving the hosts with eleven runs to get from the last six balls. Flintoff picked up wickets of the third and fourth delivery of the final over, leaving the hosts short by five runs and running around half naked, twirling his jersey around and leaving Sourav Ganguly gutted.