Bairstow, Pacers Stars As England Hand India Their first World cup Defeat.

Edgbaston who hosted india and england the highly anticipated contest of this event. So far the biggest of the matches in ICC cricket world cup. India who came into this match unbeaten after thrashing west indies in a one sides contest. England who look to re united after roy was back in the side. England who was beaten down by Australia miserably returned into this game as a must win contest for them. England needed to win both of their remaining matches in order to stay in hunt for the top four. Pakistan, Bangladesh hopes were relying on this match as if England lost this match, Pakistan's chances would have enhanced.
Indian team who used their first away colours in this event after it was launched yesterday. England captain morgan decided to bat in a must win game on a flat batting track. The decision to bat proved a strong one as bairstow and roy thrashed indian bowlers all over the ground. Both openers put on 160 run for the first wicket before dangerous roy was dismissed by yadav for 66 runs. After that root joined well set bairstow to take england surpass 200 in 29 overs with a target of 400 on cards. But after Bairstow reached his ton indian pacers made a minor comeback by scalping wickets on regular intervals. Mohammad shami was the star with his first ever odi world cup five wicket haul. After tight last overs Ben stokes ensured england reach a healthy 337-7 in fifty overs to chase for england.
In Reply india lost rahul cheaply to woakes. But soon after that virat kohli and rohit sharma take the control of innings with a 138 run stand for the second wicket. Rohit sharma reached his second century of this event and virat kohli after a good half century couldn't captilise on that and became the victim of liam plunkett. After both virat and kohli were dismissed india lost control of this run chase. Hardik pandya do played some good shots but became the victim of the escalted required run rate. He skied one to the substitute Vince of the bowling of plunkett. With required run rate climbing india lost the way as MS dhoni and kedar jadhav couldn't make it up and fell short by 31 runs. For England liam plunkett was the pick of the bowlers taking up three for 55 followed by chris woakes who also picked up a couple of wickets.
With this win England again stormed into the top four with 10 points one point above Pakistan.  Now England have to beat new zealand in order to qualify otherwise they might get eliminated.

Match Summary
England 🇬🇧 337-7 overs 50
Bairstow 111
Stokes 79
Shami 5-69
Bumrah 1-44
India 🇮🇳  306-5 overs 50
Sharma 102
Kohli 66
Plunkett 3-55
Woakes 2-58
England won by 31 runs.