{"id":193968,"date":"2026-07-16T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193968"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:31:32","slug":"cricket-commentary-eng-vs-ind-2nd-odi-india-tour-of-england-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=193968","title":{"rendered":"Cricket commentary | ENG vs IND, 2nd ODI, India tour of England, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><b>Joe Root | Player of the Match:<\/b> [On England levelling the series despite missing out on a hundred] Absolutely. And that&#8217;s what the game&#8217;s about. 1-1 in the series going into Lord&#8217;s. And in those conditions, on that pitch, just to be there at the end and get the job done is probably the best feeling you can get in cricket. [On being stranded on 99] I&#8217;ve got out a few times, funny, but no. But like I said, that&#8217;s not what you play for. You play to win games. And this series is very much alive now, which is what we intended at the start today. And I&#8217;m very much looking forward to a big game at Lord&#8217;s now. [On the key to the chase and the batting conditions] Yeah, I think throughout the whole game it was difficult to bat. And I think our bowlers did a brilliant job once they got that partnership, to peg them back to that score, gave us the opportunity to bat time and to soak up a bit of pressure in different periods of the game, if and when we needed to. And I thought we did that well on the whole. And obviously to get across the line, sometimes you&#8217;ve got to win scrappy and ugly. And like I say, we now go to Lord&#8217;s with everything to play for. [On England&#8217;s ODI team and whether recent criticism is justified] Well, it depends how you look at it. I mean, you could look at the last 30 games and look at our record, or you could look at the here and now. And I think this team should be judged on the here and now. We won in Sri Lanka, the first team to win there for four years. And similarly to that series, we lost the first game, learned lessons, and evolved and got better and adapted. And that&#8217;s exactly what we did again today. The challenge is, can we do it at Lord&#8217;s when the pressure&#8217;s on against, again, a brilliant team, the number one-ranked team in the world. For us to stand up and play like that, I think, shows where we are and is a good benchmark for us. So, let&#8217;s back it up again at Lord&#8217;s. And then I think there&#8217;s a very different look to, or perception to where this team is. I think it&#8217;s in a different place to where some might think it is.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/m.cricbuzz.com\/live-cricket-scores\/129469\/ind-vs-eng-2nd-odi-india-tour-of-england-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Root | Player of the Match: [On England levelling the series despite missing out on a hundred] Absolutely. And that&#8217;s what the game&#8217;s about. 1-1 in the series going into Lord&#8217;s. And in those conditions, on that pitch, just to be there at the end and get the job done is probably the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784233892_i.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":194636,"url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=194636","url_meta":{"origin":193968,"position":0},"title":"ENG vs IND 3rd ODI, Live Score: India looks to secure series win; Rohit retirement updates, toss news at 3:00PM IST","author":"Ajay Kumar Verma","date":"July 19, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"ENG vs IND, 3rd ODI: Catch all the live updates and highlights from the third ODI between England and India at the Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground on Sunday, July 19. 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