England vs India 2018: 5 reasons why India lost the second ODI

Inability to contain England at the death overs

Willey brought up his maiden ODI fifty in the second ODI

228/5 at 40 overs isn't a great score when you are looking to finish with a flourish. At 240/6 from 42 overs, England looked as though they would struggle to get past 300 even with a well-set Joe Root on the verge of scoring a century.

But instead of stifling the England lower order, India let them run riot as David Willey brought up his maiden ODI fifty off just 30 balls and the hosts plundered 82 runs for the loss of just a solitary wicket off the last eight overs.

While it is true that India don't have the death bowling exploits of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah but conceding more than 10 rpo in the last eight overs when you have already picked up six wickets is just criminal. And that final flourish helped the hosts get the momentum going into the second innings.