IND VS ENG 2 ND ODI RESULT

India vs England – 2nd ODI

Venue: Sophia Gardens, Cardiff

Result: England beat India by 4 wickets

Series: Level 1-1 . 

Scorecard

India: 233/10 in 44.0 overs

Shreyas Iyer: 66(61) - fought alone in the collapse

Virat Kohli: 65(66) - his 132nd ODI fifty

Shubman Gill: 31(30)

Rohit Sharma: 26(47)

Jasprit Bumrah: 20(13) - important cameo

Bowling: Jofra Archer 3-47, Gus Atkinson 3-50, Saqib Mahmood 2-52 . 

India lost last 7 wickets for just 55 runs . 

England: 235/6 in 44.1 overs

Joe Root: 99* - stranded 1 run short of century

Chased target in 35 balls to spare

Bowling: Gurnoor Brar 2 wkts, Bumrah/Axar/Prasidh/Dube 1 each. 

Key Points

Toss: England won and chose to bowl

Changes: India without KL Rahul due to illness. Ishan Kishan played instead

India XI: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill(c), Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan(w), Shreyas Iyer, Washington Sundar, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Gurnoor Brar, Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna

Next match: 3rd ODI at Lord's on Sunday, 19 July 2026 - series decider . 

Tough one for India. Batting collapse after Kohli and Iyer fifties cost us, and Root anchored England home.