2nd ODI: India's losing run in Eng continues

Southampton: Alastair Cook played a captain's innings and anchored a stiff run-chase with a well-paced knock of 80 not out to extend India's losing streak as the hosts won the rain-curtailed second ODI by seven wickets at The Rose Bowl on Tuesday.

The match was reduced to a 23-over game after rain held up play for close to five hours. Put in to bat, India reached a more than competitive 187/8 riding on Ajinkya Rahane's maiden ODI fifty and a quickfire 40 by Suresh Raina.
But the good work by batsmen was undone by India's insipid bowling that wilted under the pressure exerted by the blistering pace set by openers Cook and Craig Keiswetter.
But off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin struck to remove Bell (25 off 16) as England lost a wicket against the run of play.
None of the Indian bowlers could trouble England, with Ashwin (2/42) and Vinay (1/33) being the only wicket-takers.
It was a Suresh Raina show thereafter who took Dernbach apart with 16 runs, including two fours and a six, in the 20th over bowled by him. But Bresnan returned to send MS Dhoni (6) back and get England their fifth wicket.
Raina finally fell to Bresnan, but not before he had punished England with 40 runs of 19 balls, including three sixes and three fours, which propelled India to 187/8.
Other than Swann's 3/33, Bresnan was the main contributor to the wickets tally with a spell of 3/43.