Game recap: England vs India, 1st ODI, Chester-le-Street

The game ended in a draw, thanks to the rain gods, but the honors in the game rested with India. At the time the game was called off, England was tottering at 27 runs with the loss of 2 wickets after 7.2 overs. The win probability of England at this point was exactly 0, as the following win expectancy graph shows for the second innings:


India would naturally be disappointed at the outcome of this game, their best performance on the tour ended in a nought. Despite a depleted squad (and losing another one, Rohit Sharma, this time to a fractured finger), the Indian batsmen put up an admirable show and set a target of 274 runs for England. Parthiv Patel was the star player of the game, accumulating a WPA of 0.474 and falling just 5 short of his maiden one-day century.