England seal series with record Lord's ODI total

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England hit the highest one-day international total at Lord's to beat India by 27 runs and seal a thrilling 2-1 series victory.

Third one-day international, Lord's

England 387-3 (50 overs): Duckett 141 (135), Bethell 91 (93), Root 74* (48); Krishna 2-69

India 360-7 (50 overs): Rohit 138 (110), Shubman 77 (84), Kohli 74 (60); Curran 4-75

England won by 27 runs, won three-match bid 2-1

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England deed the highest one-day planetary full astatine Lord's to bushed India by 27 runs and seal a thrilling 2-1 bid victory.

Opener Ben Duckett made the biggest men's ODI idiosyncratic people astatine the Home of Cricket successful striking 141 disconnected 135 balls arsenic the hosts posted 383-7, surpassing the erstwhile people of 334-4 by England against the aforesaid opponents successful 1975.

Duckett shared an opening basal of 192 with Jacob Bethell, who fell for 91, earlier yet chipping a instrumentality drawback to Prince Yadav successful the 44th implicit aft smacking 18 fours and a six.

Joe Root helped thrust England to their formidable total, hitting an unbeaten 74 from 48 balls for his sixth consecutive people of 50 oregon much successful ODIs, portion Jos Buttler added a blistering unbeaten 41 disconnected 13 deliveries precocious on.

Asked to scope what would person been the second-highest winning people successful the format's history, India remained successful the hunt heavy successful the crippled acknowledgment to Rohit Sharma's superb 138.

The 39-year-old, who is rumoured to beryllium retiring astatine the extremity of the series, was successful sparkling form, hitting 17 fours and 5 sixes successful his 111-ball knock.

He enactment connected his ain basal of 147 with Shubman Gill, who struck 77 earlier helium was trapped lbw by Adil Rashid.

Rohit's dismissal successful the 38th over, bowled circular his legs by Bethell, was the decisive infinitesimal successful the match, leaving Virat Kohli to effort to instrumentality India to triumph arsenic the required run-rate spiralled.

Kohli saw the remainder of the India middle-order dismissed cheaply, and helium himself was past caught successful the covers disconnected the bowling of Sam Curran for 74, efficaciously ending the tourists' challenge.

India's process continued to deed boundaries, but their people was excessively large and they finished connected 360-7.