ENG vs IND | 1st ODI | Where India got the leverage over the English pacers on their home turf

India continued their white-ball dominance against England in the first ODI after winning the T2OI series. The Indian pacers were at their lethal best, leaving the hosts baffled. 

Rohit Sharma won the toss on a greenish wicket and decided to field first. The pitch was responding to the Indian bowlers from the very beginning.

In the second over of the match, Jasprit Bumrah dealt a double blow to England, from which they never really revived. A look at the wickets of the English top order might give us insights into what India was doing the best yesterday.

Jason Roy: Bumrah set up Roy with the first three deliveries of the over. He went back of the length and into Roy's stumps for the first three balls. 

On the fourth delivery, Bumrah bowled it full and outside off. Getting a bit of room, the batter tried to go hard at it and ended up getting an inside edge onto the stumps. 

Joe Root: Well, arguably the best batter of the English team was done by the extra bounce. The first ball Root played was an example of his solid technique, as he defended a good length delivery on the front foot.

On the next delivery, a ball from the good length bounced more than Root expected. He snicked the ball into the hands of the keeper. 

Ben Stokes: Apart from the strategic change of sides from Mohammed Shami, Stokes was outdone by a brilliant inswinging delivery that would have dismissed any batter in the world. The ball pitched on the off stump, nipped in off the seam, and took the inside edge of Stokes. Well, the English Test captain had no answer to that brilliant piece of delivery.

Jonny Bairstow: Bairstow's dismissal was another example of Bumrah’s strategic acumen. Bumrah set up the batter with two outgoing deliveries from the good length and followed it up with an incoming ball.

Bairstow was caught playing for the outswing and ended up inside, edging the ball behind the stumps. 

Liam Livingstone: Well, to the viewers, the dismissal of Livingstone might go down as a very loose one. But in that case, also Bumrah was setting the batter up if looked at closely.

Bumrah bowled two away-going deliveries and then followed it up with a yorker. Then, as the batter was strangled down, he stepped down the wicket and was bowled off an inswing delivery round the legs.

Jos Buttler: Jos Buttler's dismissal was more off a shot that was not properly executed by the batter. In trying to hook a delivery of Shami, he top-edged it and was caught at the deep square leg.

Once the top six were dismissed, not much of a fight was left in the English batting. They were bundled out for 110 runs which India chased down without losing a wicket with more than 30 overs left in the game.

English Bowling: The English bowling looked clueless regarding what line and length to bowl. While Indians were following back of the length bowling with full pitched and good length deliveries, the English bowlers looked one-dimensional.

They had two set plans for the two opening batters, and once that failed, they had nothing to back it up.

An interesting analysis is that Rohit Sharma scored 62% of his runs behind square on the leg. This is evidence of how short England bowled to him.

While Dhawan scored 58% of his runs in the cover region. So the plan for Dhawan was outside off stump around the good length area. 

But as the target was not too much, the Indian openers got settled and successfully nulled the English bowlers' plan. Once the initial phase was over, England had no other strategy to resort to, which might be a concern for the team.