Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes decimate India to level series

Despite suffering a collapse of 10 for 116 to bungle a chase of 318 on the first ODI, England captain Eoin Morgan insisted that there was no reason behind the world champions to veer from the turbo-charged approach which has served them well. Three times later, Morgan wasn't available for the second match - he has been ruled out of the third too with a hands injury - but Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow epitomised that method of help England mow down a bigger target of 337 with almost 40 balls to spare. Jason Roy as well did his thing at the top, as England reduced KL Rahul's extra sedate century in the first 1 / 2 to a footnote.

Rishabh Pant and Hardik Pandya had exploded ultimately overs for India, but overall they couldn't match to England's sustained aggression. While India hit 34 boundaries within their complete innings, England ticked past that mark in the 34th over of the chase. At that time the asking rate had plummeted to significantly less than five an over. India's left-arm spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Krunal Pandya bore the brunt of the Stokes-Bairstow assault, conceding 0 for 156 runs between them in 16 overs.

Stokes, Bairstow and Jos Buttler all fell found in an area of eight balls, but debutant Liam Livingstone and Dawid Malan, who was playing his second ODI, completed England's drubbing of India to set up a good decider on Sunday.

It had been Roy who made the first performing for England, tucking into Prasidh Krishna's brief balls and swatting him for a good triptych of pulled fours found in the sixth more than. Roy implemented it with back-to-back fours off Bhuvneshwar Kumar; by the finish of the powerplay he claimed 39 of the 59 works England had scored. He notched up his first half-century of the tour when he hauled a Yadav wrong'un over long-on for six.

Bairstow, becalmed in the first exchanges, sailed to his own fifty with a flurry of boundaries. He forged his 13th century partnership with Roy, which is currently the virtually all by any English pair. It needed an instant of brilliance from Rohit Sharma in the field to separate the duo. He swooped right down to his right from midwicket to capitalise on a mix-up and manage Roy out for 55 off 52 balls.

Enter Stokes. He was somewhat of a non-starter in the first ODI (1 off 11 balls). He had started in skittish fashion in the next, too, padding up to wrong'un from Yadav, although it wasn't threatening the stumps. Krunal then drew another edge from Stokes, but there wasn't anyone at slide to snaffle that. All this was a red herring, with Stokes revving up to smash 84 off a mixed 33 balls from Yadav and Krunal, incorporating ten sixes. Just Morgan and stand-in captain Buttler possess struck more sixes for England within an ODI innings.

After Stokes surely got to his fifty off 40 balls, he went 6,6,6,1,6,4,2,6,6,2,4, but fell only short of 100, with Kumar having him caught behind down the leg side. Bairstow, however, had raised his hundred in the same manner as he had raised his fifty: with a towering six off Yadav.

After India were inserted again, Rahul had made a contrasting hundred, collecting 68 of his 108 works through singles and doubles. He cautiously navigated the spinners and it had been only after moving fifty that he strike over the top. Also, Virat Kohli accumulated in risk-free fashion following the hosts had dawdled to 41 for the increased loss of openers Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma in the powerplay. On Tuesday, India had two fewer works in that period for the increased loss of no wickets, but such a cagey begin hadn't hurt them in that case. It did get back to bite them on Friday despite a 28-ball half-century from Pant and a 16-ball 35 from Hardik.

Reece Topley, who was playing simply his second ODI since 2016, was particularly impressive with the brand new ball, sometimes landing it on the seam and gleaning substantial movement and bounce off the pitch. After striking an awkward in-between length against Dhawan, he pushed one across him from a fuller length to own him nicking off for 4 off 17 balls. Rohit, who had received out chasing what might have been an off-huge large from Stokes in the first meet, tickled a leg-stump half-volley from Sam Curran right to short fine leg in the second.

Moeen Ali, who has already established a rough winter, put in a decent change, returning 0 for 47 in his 10 overs. He quit only one boundary in his spell, but that was right down to a fumble from Stokes at extra-cover. For Adil Rashid, he slash short Kohli's innings at 66, besting him for the ninth time in intercontinental cricket. Rashid could 've got him much earlier - when Kohli was on 35 - possessed Buttler certainly not closed his gloves too early. The keeper's error allowed Kohli to include 31 to his tally prior to the subsequent correction brought Pant to the crease. The left-hander shut out Rashid's spell with a robust slog-swept six over midwicket.

Pant continued a six-hitting spree, however the insufficient urgency from the most notable four and England's own six-striking spree meant it had been in vain.