India vs England - 5th One Day International

India beat England by 38 runs in Kolkatta, Eden Gardens on 9th December 2005 and won the series 4 - 1.

Team

Umpires: P Chatterje, A Das
India Women: K V Jain, J Sharma, A Rawat, A Chopra, J Goswami, M Raj, R Dhar, A Sharma, S Naidu, V Raphael, N David
England Women: C M Edwards, R A Birch, S C Taylor, J L Gunn, A Brindle, L S Greenway, C M G Atkins, B L Morgan, N J Shaw, J Smit, I T Guha

Who won the toss? BBC says England CricInfo says England and Rediff UNI says India Sify Indiatimes Yahoo Msn Indian Express and NDTV say nothing

India batted first.

Match Highlights

Opener Karuna Jain hit 103 from 147 balls and became the fifth Indian women cricketer to hit a one-day century and the other opener Jaya Sharma scored 59 from 84 balls.

Indians scored 243 losing 4 wickets in their 50 overs.

Indian fast bowlers Amita Sharma (2 wickets), Jhulan Goswami (1 wicket) and Rumeli Dhar (1 wicket) struck initially. V Raphael and N David later took 2 wickets each.

England's top scorer's were A Brindle 52 from 66 balls and L S Greenway 40 from 57 balls

England all out in 46.5 overs could score only 205.

Player of the Match : Karuna Jain

Rediff Uni says Karuna Jain for 169 runs and Jhulan Goswami for 11 wickets shared the trophy for Eve of the Tournament.

Cricinfo says Jhulan Goswami got the Player of the series

BBC doesnt mention this .

In Hindu Amitabha Das Sharma says Karuna got the received the `player of the tournament' jointly with Jhulan.

I dont know if they its the same trophy or if both got the same or if just Jhulan Goswami got it.

Scorecard

The next series for India, vs Pakistan.