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Kanpur: Annihilated at Rajkot, OUtplayed at Indore. What's in store at Kanpur? That surely is worrying the beleaguered England skipper Kevin Pietersen. Though he continues to put up a brave front after two successive defeats, saying the English team is improving by the match, his team just no clue how to stop Dhoni and Co. Undoubtedly, Yuvraj Singh has been the star by a mile. And the England think-tank is wracking its brain to formulate a plan to subue him. Having joined the Fab-four, to score back-to-back hundreds in ODIs. It successive one at Kanpur of Thursday.
Suresh Raina, who will be playing his first ODI game on home-ground. Ishant Sharma and Sidebottom may be plays first one-dayer in the series. Both seamers miss first two ODIs due to injury.
England need to embrace cricket as much they need to embrace India. If the buzz in their media is to be believed, neither seems particularly relevant. Of course, that cannot be true because good players cannot become bad overnight.
Highlights of the match
| India | England | |
| Coach | Gary Kirstan | Peter Moores |
| ICC Ranking | 3 | 6 |
| Key Players | Sehwag, Yuvraj, Zaheer, Gambhir |
Flintoff, Pietersen, Collingwood, Stuart Broad |
| Weather | Showers in the morning, then clearing with ample sunshine in the afternoon. High 81F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30%. | |
| Pitch | Kanpur curator predicts run-riot Kanpur. In what would be far from music to the ears of Kevin Pietersen, the pitch curator at Green Park Stadium on Wednesday predicted a bowlers' bloodbath when India host beleaguered England for the third ODI on Thursday. | |
| ODDS | 4/11 | 13/6 |
| Head to head | Total 67, India 35, England 30, NR 2 | |
