July 17 (CRICKEX) – Joe Root and Skipper Eoin Morgan scored a brilliant century and half-century respectively to guide England to a comfortable eight-wicket win over India in the third ODI in Leeds on Tuesday. With this victory, England won the series 2-1.

Chasing 257, the hosts were two down with 74 runs on board, before Root and Morgan put up an unbeaten solid partnership of 186 runs to guide England to victory

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Brief Scores

India – 256/8 50 Overs (Virat Kohli – 71, Shikhar Dhawan – 44, David Willey – 3/40, Adil Rashid – 3/49)

England – 260/2 in 44.3 Overs (Joe Root – 100*, Eoin Morgan – 88*, Shardul Thakur – 1/51)