India beat England to seal series

India beat England by 19 runs (Duckworth Lewis method) in the fourth One-dayer at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore to take an unassailable 4-0 lead in the seven-match series.
Chasing a victory target of 198 run in 22 overs, England managed 178/8 runs for their fourth consecutive defeat in the series.

Paul Collingwood (22) was the last English wicket to fall when he hit a Munaf Patel delivery to mid-wicket for Sachin Tendulkar to take the catch.

England were reduced to 161/6 when Samit Patel hit to mid-off for Gautam Gambhir to take the catch off Zaheer Khan.

England were in the game till they lost Andrew Flintoff and Owais Shah in successive overs to be reduced to 145/5 in 18 overs.

Ishant Sharma had Flintoff (41) caught at mid-off by Zaheer off a slower delivery in the over after Owais Shah's brilliant innings of 72 came to an end when he was dismissed by Zaheer. Flintoff hit 3 fours and a six in his knock.

Shah played across the line to a full toss and edged it high up in the air for Tendulkar to take the catch in the covers after hitting 9 fours and 3 sixes.

Flintoff joined Shah at the crease when England were reeling at 52/3 and put up 82 runs for the fourth wicket.

Ishant Sharma dismissed England captain Kevin Pietersen who was looking to cut the slower ball to third man, missed and was clean bowled.

Harbhajan Singh got India the second breakthrough by dismissing Ian Bell whose painful innings of 12 runs off 15 balls came to end when tried to slog sweep but missed the ball being early in the shot and was clean bowled.

Munaf Patel denied England a good start when he dismissed Ravi Bopara (1) in the second over. Bopara hit the shot wide of long on where Ishant Sharma dived to his right to take a splendid catch.

Yuvraj Hits Second Consecutive Century

Yuvraj Singh reacts after scoring a century against England during the second One-Day International in Indore

Meerabai Not Out

Now that he has retired from cricket, Anil Kumble has opted for a rather sticky wicket – Bollywood!
Anil Kumble will be seen in a sports flick titled Meerabai Not Out. But this is no googly! Anil insists that it’s a small role in which he plays himself. “So it wasn’t that difficult,” he tells us, adding, “This is the first film I’ve done and it’s releasing at a time when I’ve announced my retirement! So, it just looks like I’m opting for Bollywood. But I’m really not looking at it as an alternate career.”

Well, this khiladi isn’t opting for Bollywoodbaazi. But, doing a small role once in a while, will help him remain ‘not out’, and of course, keep the ball rolling...

Well done Virender Sehwag

Anil Kumble congratulates Virender Sehwag for taking Shane Watson's wicket on the fourth day of the third Test in New Delhi on 10/31/2008.