India vs England, 2nd ODI: Score and latest updates from Cuttack With injuries and defeats mounting, there was a sense of creeping crisis enveloping England as this game began, and a perfectly pitched chase by the elegant, experienced Indian batsmen did little to douse that.
England’s bowling attack lacks the weapons to defend par totals and India’s chase looked most shaky when a dodgy floodlight forced the players off, putting a new twist on ‘bad light stopped play’.
At this charming, ramshackle ground, one of the eight pylons packed in six overs into India’s reply, leading to just one ball being bowled in 40 farcical minutes before the faulty tower sparked back into life.
England have now lost six of the seven matches on this tour, and both series with a game to spare.
That top six largely functioned as they are designed to, with Ben Duckett getting them off to a flyer, Joe Root holding things together through the middle, and Liam Livingstone hitting bombs at the end.
