India Counts Gains in Their Clean Sweep Versus England

Gill's classy hundred powers hosts to a huge 142-run win in the final ODI against clueless visitors

- Rasesh Mandani

AHMEDABAD: India blanked England. Winning at Nagpur, then in Cuttack and one final time in front of a huge crowd here on Wednesday. A 60,000-plus crowd wasn't enough to make the huge Narendra Modi Stadium look full, but the hosts certainly left the visitors feeling well short.

If England had their moments in the 1-4 T20 series loss, they took home very few positives in this ODI series whitewash. In pursuit of India's 356, England were bowled out for 214 in 34.2 overs, a victory margin of 142 runs. Shubman Gill is the adopted cricket hero here. The Punjab batter may not speak the language of the locals, but he has acquired mastery over language of the ground conditions here.

Gill added another chapter to his prolific record here by notching up his sixth hundred across international cricket and IPL.

For the first few overs, Gill was carrying Virat Kohli, whose indecisiveness outside off-stump seemed to resurface. While Kohli played and missed with an expressive collage of oohs and aahs, Gill whipped and caressed the ball with equal command.