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Listless India hand England series-levelling win

Southampton: A listless India crashed to ahumiliating 266-run defeat against England in the thirdcricket Test after an abject batting surrender allowed thehosts to level the five-match series 1-1 here on Thursday.


Needing to bat out the whole day with six wickets in handin order to save the match, Indian batting crumbled in thefirst session itself getting bundled out for a meagre 178 in66.4 overs in a completely lopsided contest at the Ageas Bowl.


It was one of the biggest defeats for India in terms ofruns on English soil but not their worst, having lost a Testmatch by a mammoth 319 runs in Nottingham during the last tourin 2011.


For England, the victory meant an end to a winless streakof 10 Test matches starting from the Ashes Down Under.


To add insult to the injury, it was part-time off-spinnerMoeen Ali, who bamboozled the lower-oder batsmen with hiscareer-best haul of six for 67 in 20.4 overs.


Pacer Jimmy Anderson provided the first breakthrough inthe morning when he had Rohit Sharma (6) nibbling at anaway-going delivery to be caught by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.


Mahendra Singh Dhoni (6) couldn't replicate theresilience of the first innings as he was again a victim of anoutswinger, edging to the keeper.


While Ajinkya Rahane waged a lone battle at the otherend, he could do little as he saw wickets falling like ninepins at the other end.


Moeen, then got into the action as he got the ball toturn and jump from the rough as well as bowling the classicaloff-breaks. He cleaned up Ravindra Jadeja (15) with a deliverythat pitched on the rough and came in to hit the off-stump.


Bhuvneshwar Kumar got out to a bat-pad catch with adelivery that spun in after pitching. His maiden 'five-for'was completed when a typical off-break cleaned up MohammedShami.


Rahane duly got his second half-century of the matchhitting a brilliant square drive off Chris Woakes with No 11Pankaj Singh for company.


Pankaj was finally cleaned up by Moeen for his sixthscalp as he played inside the line.


The two teams will now travel to Manchester for thefourth cricket Test to be played from August 7 at the OldTrafford.






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