Bowling Card 3RD ODI England vs India

• Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 9, nb 5) 17
• Total Score: 240/10 (48.4 Over)

  RR:4.93

• Fall of Wickets:

  1-79 (Ian Bell, 14.3 Over) 2-102 (Kevin Pietersen, 19.1 Over) 3-106 (Paul Collingwood, 21.2 Over) 4-133 (Ravi Bopara, 28.5 Over) 5-167 (Andrew Flintoff, 36.2 Over) 6-203 (Owais Shah, 43.4 Over) 7-231 (Samit Patel, 46.4 Over) 8-231 (Matt Prior, 46.5 Over) 9-235 (Stuart Broad, 47.5 Over) 10-240 (James Anderson, 48.4 Over)

  Bowling	O	M	R	W	NB	WD	Eco
  Zaheer Khan	10	0	45	1	0	1	4.5
  Munaf Patel	6.4	0	36	2	0	0	5.4
  Ishant Sharma	9	0	60	2	5	2	6.66
  Yuvraj Singh	10	0	54	1	0	1	5.4
  Harbhajan Singh	10	2	31	3	0	1	3.1
  Yusuf Pathan	2	0	7	1	0	0	3.5
  Virender Sehwag	1	0	4	0	0	0	4

Bopara opens with 60 as England make 240 in India

KANPUR (Reuters) - All rounder Ravi Bopara hit 60 runs as a makeshift opener to help a shaky England to 240 all out in the third one day international against India on Thursday.

Bopara struck his fourth half century in one-dayers and put on 79 runs with Ian Bell (46) for the opening wicket after England, 2-0 down in the seven-match series, won the toss and elected to bat.

England's batting reshuffle largely failed to work, however, and off spinner Harbhajan Singh grabbed three wickets as India bowled the tourists out with two balls to spare.

Harbhajan, 28, returned a splendid three for 31 to reach career tally of 200 one-day wickets and pacemen Munaf Patel and Ishant Sharma took two wickets each.

Owais Shah (40), Andrew Flintoff (26) and Samit Patel (26) were the other notable contributors to England's modest total. India will need to achieve the victory target in 49 overs after the match was curtailed by a 45-minute delay at the start caused by hazy conditions.

EARLY MOMENTUM

England showed early evidence of a determination to bounce back in the series but ran out of steam as the Indian slow bowlers once again took charge.

Bell and Bopara made a cautious start and scored only 16 runs in the first seven overs before stepping up to play fluent shots.

Bell hit eight fours and looked good for a big score until he was caught behind off Munaf trying a casual steer to third man.

Harbhajan wrested the initiative back for India with the wickets of captain Kevin Pietersen (13) and Paul Collingwood (1) off successive overs as England slumped to 106 for three.

Pietersen, promoting himself to number three, hit Yuvraj Singh's occasional left-arm spin for six but paid the price after charging down the pitch to Harbhajan and holing out to Zaheer Khan at long off.

Harbhajan also had the out-of-form Collingwood stumped as he played forward to a doosra delivery.

Bopara held one end up but England suffered with Flintoff cast in the unusual role of having to consolidate after being sent in ahead of Shah, who hit 58 at number three in the second match of the series in Indore.

Bopara drove Yuvraj past cover for his eighth four to reach fifty but the bowler had him stumped with a delivery which spun away from the batsman. Flintoff was the fifth out, trapped leg before by off spinner Yusuf Pathan.

Recalled fast bowler Ishant conceded 10 runs in an eventful 10-ball 47th over which had two no balls, a wide which went for four and then the wickets of Samit Patel and Matt Prior (5) off succesive deliveries.

England all out for 240 in 3rd ODI

Harbhajan Singh's spell of 3/31 spelled doom for the English XI as the visitors were all out for a mere 240 runs.

Ravi Bopara top scored for the hosts with a neat knock of 60. Earlier, England made a solid start in the Kanpur ODI but India has struck crucial blows to bring England to 102/2 in 19 overs.

Ian Bell fell to a Munaf Patel delivery that jagged away while Harbhajan Singh got the all important wicket of skipper Kevin Pietersen.

Ian Bell and Ravi Bopara forged 79 run partnership for the opening wicket to give England its best start for the series. After Bell's fall Bopara (41 batting) soldiered on and now he is joined by Paul Collingwood in the middle.

England skipper Kevin Pietersen won the toss and chose to bat first against India in the third one-day international on Thursday.

The start was delayed by 45 minutes due to hazy conditions, reducing play to 49-overs per side. The forecast is for showers during the day.

England dropped pace spearhead Steve Harmison and picked off spinner Graeme Swann as the second spinner, for his first game of the series in the only change from the previous game.

Harmison took just three wickets at over 41 runs apiece in the first two games, the hosts having won both easily to lead the seven-match series.

India recalled fast bowler Ishant Sharma after his recovery from an ankle injury, replacing left-arm R.P. Singh in the only change from the previous game.

Teams: England:Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen (captain), Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Owais Shah, Samit Patel, Matt Prior, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, James Anderson.

India:Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Ishant Sharma.

England could not make the most of their best start of the series so far as India's phalanx of disciplined bowlers shot them out for 240 in 48.4 overs in the third cricket ODI here today.

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