India win England in one-day thriller.

Mohali, October 20 : Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni shattered two fours in the final over as India hit England by five wickets on Thursday to win a decisive 3-0 lead in the five-match one-day series.

Youthful batsman AjinkyaRahane top-scored with 91 and Gautam Gambhir hit 58 as the world champion surpass England's not easy 298-4 with four balls to extra in a thrilling day-night match. India were under attack at 235-5 in the 42nd over before Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja steered the hosts home with a winning 65-run stand for the 6th wicket.

With 17 runs needed off the last two over’s, the pair take 10 runs in the 49th bowled by emerald Dernbach, before Dhoni shattered the first two balls of the final over from Tim Bresnan for limits to clinch victory.Dhoni returned winning on 35 and Jadeja was on 26 as the new-look Indians, without seven players who won the World Cup final against Sri Lanka in April, take the series.The tourist, who was thrash by 126 runs and eight wickets in the previous two games, needed a win to stay afloat in the series. England begin well as an unbeaten 98  runs from Jonathan Trott enthused a batting revival that helped them post 298-4.Samit Patel broken up an unbeaten 70  runs off 43 balls and Kevin Petersen scored 64 as England's batting lastly came good after skipper Alastair Cook won the toss in the day-night game.

What time India batted, Rahane put on 79 for the first wicket with Parthiv Patel and 111 for the second with Gambhir to lift India to a happy 190-1 by the 34th over. England hit back with four wickets for 45 runs as fast bowler Steven Finn removed Gambhir and Rahane, Bresnan dismissed Suresh Raina for zero and Graeme Swann attentive Virat Kohli leg-before for 35.But Dhoni and Jadeja twisted the game around with a match-winning stand in front of 25,000 excited home fans.

Earlier, Trott and Petersen, who came jointly at 53-2, put on 101 for the third wicket on an even-paced ground ideal for shot-making.Trott then added 103 for the unbroken fifth with Patel, who hit two sixes and seven fours as England plundered 91 runs in the last 10 overs..

Trott, who was on 94 at the start of the last over from Vinay Kumar, took three runs from the first two deliveries but manage only a single off the fifth to be deprived of a fourth one-day hundred. The fourth one-dayer will be played in Mumbai on Sunday.

Reporter changed phone-hacking match-fix.

London: An in secret reporter from the News of the World, the British newspaper at the heart of a phone-hacking disgrace which has involved Rupert Murdoch's information Corp, deprived of on Wednesday he used the perform to break a legend about cricket match-fixing.

Mazher Mahmood, the Investigation editor at the now-defunct Sunday sensationalist, unwanted accusations that his description had disturbed the against the law interception of voicemail messages, the Press connection reported. He is told London's Southwark tiara Court he had usual loss fear since publish the legend allege that a games cause took bribe to position for Pakistan cricketers to bowl on idea no-balls during a test aligned with England last summer.

 Prosecutors contend British-based representative Mazhar Majeed conspire with Pakistan's ex- test captain Salman Butt, 27, and speed bowlers Mohammad Asif, 28, and Mohammad Amir, 19, to fix part of the Lord's test stuck between Aug. 26 and 29.

Butt and Asif, who are status trial, deny plot to cheat and plot to accept corrupt expenses.Mahmood said he launch an investigation after a top secret source sent him copies of "incriminating" text mail from Majeed's BlackBerry phone showing that match-fixing had been going on for a "long time”. But he said the story "have nothing to do with telephone hack" and said he have no information of the prohibited perform during his 20 years at the reports of the World.

press on the newspaper are accuse of hack the voicemail messages of people range from celebrity to offense victims in a search for exclusive, claim which led to the finish of the paper in July. Openhanded confirmation from report after a screen to hide his self, Mahmood said he begin research the story after a secret source he had known for many years sent him information which was as well passed to the International Cricket Council.

They are incriminating text mail which showed these guys have be doing it for a extensive time he told the court.Asif's brief Alexander Milne said the mail was downloaded from Majeed's BlackBerry and asks the reporter: "Is this not hack material?"Mahmood reply: "No, it is not... One, you're arrogant it's downloaded from the telephone with no the knowledge of the self, and second this is not anything to do with hack at all."

The reporter said he consult the skull of the documents legal branch about the texts he acknowledged and confirmed it was "totally within the law" to use them. He admits his spring was paid after his story was in print.Asked if here had been any illegal intercept of voicemails at every one Mahmood said: "There was no phone hacking involved. You're bark up the in the wrong ranking."

Milne also recommended that Mahmood two times met Asif in London pretend to be a lawyer called "Imran Sheikh" before the story insolvent on Aug. 29, 2010The reporter said the claim was "totally wrong" and "ludicrous” and it would comprise been an illegal offence to do so. He thought the one time he meted Asif was in Qatar at an ICC inquiry. Am a guy that's been getting death pressure after this story, so the last thing I want to do is meet this cricketer," he believed.

Court is in disbelief Majeed's series of boasts

Oct 10: The cricket agent Mazhar Majeed, who is at the centre of spot-fixing allegation, came up with a sequence of boast to the in secret reporter who posed as an Indian manufacturer.


Majeed he is  also told reporter Mazhar Mahmood that he 'very well' knew Hollywood actor Brad Pitt, Swiss tennis winner Roger Federer and was 'good friends' with former England cricketers Mike Gatting, Phil Tufnell, Geoffrey Boycott, Pakistan ex-skipper Imran Khan and previous Indian Premier League representative Lalit Modi, in the middle of others, a court in London hear.


He also claim that he had more than a few Pakistan players below his organize, counting Salman Butt, brothers Kamran Akmal  and Umar Akmal, then  Shoaib Malik and have access to other star cricketers similar to Chris Gayle, Brett Lee, Ricky Ponting, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh, espn cricinfo report.


Majeed's arrogant was hear in a recording as Mahmood be in the observer set at Southward put the finishing touch to Court of central London, on the fourth day of the audition of Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, who have been emotional with plot to obtain and accept dishonest payments and conspiracy to trick following the Lord's Test in August. The two have starved of the charge.


The audacity raise smiles of incredulity in the court as Majeed was heard to assert he owned seven ice cream parlors - which he have Pakistan players to come into view at for free - and brag how he live at special times in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey as he deliberate faith and gave lecture.


The court heard Majeed sayed he was unwilling to work by former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi because 'you contain to kiss his arse every day'. He also boasts of rotating down the chance of life form part.


Majeed supposed he worked very much through the Pakistan Cricket Board and said he had a gathering with Chairman Ijaz Butt about holding a domestic cricket tournament.


I have a meeting by Ijaz Butt about doing a domestic cricket tournament. What we are going to was look at a put a sponsor an each region and do a Twenty20 league since the Pakistani people is not in receipt of any cricket before watch. They will become here.

Bairstow hopes to impress his maiden England Trip

London: Newcomer Jonny Bairstow says his receiving picked for England was an arrogant instant for his family and he hopes to live awake to the prospect if he gets a chance in the forth coming ODI series against India. England is to play five ODIs against India. The first ODI begin in Hyderabad on October 14.Jonny Bairstow's father David, who kept wickets for Yorkshire and England, dedicated suicide at what time Jonny was eight.

Jonny, now a 22-year-old who is prepare to don the ornament in Saturday's warm-up game next to a Hyderabad Cricket Association said his dad's death made them stronger as a family. I have a number of hard to believe memoirs of him - going not in to Bairstow and in performance on the beach, and playing on the outfield at The Oval; Bairstow was quote as adage in the Daily Mail. Tour He was a large nature and did a lot for the game. In receipt of selected for England is a very arrogant instant for the relations.

Life form so young, possibly it was easier for me. But my mum wasn't very well and it took a lot of tough work and tries to get all back on track. We all pull jointly and I think that has completed us a lot stronger as relations, Bairstow said.Bairstow's winning 41 off 21 balls to help beat the Indians in Cardiff last month speed his addition in the surface and the young person will be in suspense to get a look in, in next week's first one-day international against India.

Cardiff was one innings and I'm well conscious of that. I at a halt have my feet on the ground," he supposed. But with the favorite keeper Craig Kieswetter unpaid to join the group next Somerset's Champions League campaign in Chennai at the weekend, Bairstow will have to scrap tough for a spot as a specialist batsman.

Patel keen make return to England after overcoming fitness troubles.

London: Samit Patel has admit for the first time that he was to fault for his  health weight problems that roughly ruined his England vocation. He said he was to blame for his stuffed waistline and stoppage to coach hard sufficient, factor which led to a two-year international deports The Sun reports. Patel return this summer and now thoughts of establish himself in the Test players this frost.

The large thing was to be ready to labor and show the right approach. With any luck, I'm doing that now though not completely yet - these belongings don't change for the night, there's a long way to go," the paper quote him, as proverb. It was hugely second-rate to miss this time World Cup. The detail I am invented to have bet there was so indifferent. But I can't blame someone else but for myself.

I will must train harder and do the hours. It has to move toward from me. You can direct a mount to water but you can't make it drink," Patel additional. His forced leader coach Andy Flower, and Not’s team-mate Graeme Swan had before describe him as an "idiot" for about throw away his England profession.

Gayle meets WICB chief to resolve issues

Rebel West Indies opener Chris Gayle has met with West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire in Antigua in an attempt to resolve lingering issues that have kept the Jamaican out of the regional squad.

Unlike the last one back in June when he was represented by members of players union, Gayle was not accompanied by anyone at yesterday's meeting that lasted for an hour.

Hilaire, too, was unaccompanied.

The left--handed Gayle was overlooked for the recent ODI Match and Test series against India after failing to sort out differences with WICB management, arising from controversial comments he made in an interview with a Jamaican radio station earlier this year.

Then, he accused the board of failing to supervise his rehabilitation from injury following the Cricket World Cup and was also heavily critical of Hilaire, head coach Ottis Gibson and captain Darren Sammy.

During the June meeting in Jamaica, involving WICB's director of cricket Tony Howard, team manager Richie Richardson, and Gibson, the warring parties failed to reach a resolution.

Dhoni failed to inspire India: Akram

Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram found Mahendra Singh Dhoni's demeanour hardly inspiring during the recently-concluded Test series and said the visitors 0-4 drubbing against England should act as an "eye-opener" for the Indian skipper.

Akram felt that Dhoni's poor batting show against a strong England bowling attack also played a major role in India suffering their worst Test series defeat in the country since a 5-0 loss in 1959.

India slumped to an innings and eight runs defeat in the fourth and final cricket Test at The Oval to give England a resounding 4-0 series win on Monday. "His batting form is of great concern. In this series Dhoni repeatedly got out in the slips region. He may have got a couple of 70-plus scores in the third Test at Edgbaston, but what good are these runs when your opponent has amassed a 700-plus score?" Akram stated.

Dhoni was out for three in the second innings on the fifth day when he slashed at a wide delivery from Stuart Broad and was caught at second slip.

Akram said Dhoni's body language was not motivating enough and the captain and coach need to communicate with the team more often to lift their morale. "I feel Dhoni needs to be even more involved in the game. New coach Duncan Fletcher is not a magician and will take time to settle down," he said.

Akram pointed out that no one had any idea in the Indian camp about what was going on. He stated that Dhoni did not look too involved with on-field proceedings. "I know this has been his style, but when your team is getting thrashed, 'Captain Cool' can't afford to freeze!"

"At times, you have to change your style to get the best out of your players. This result should be eye-opener for Dhoni," added Akram.

In spite of the criticism, Akram backed Dhoni and said removing him is not a quick-fix solution. "Our cricketing culture in the sub-continent doesn't support a losing captain, but here is where we need to back Dhoni. He can surely prove the critics wrong in the ODI series." said Akram.