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India 238 for 2 (Kohli 112*, Gambhir 84*) strike England 237 (Pietersen 46, Vinay 4-30) by eight wickets
World champions India worked up England once once more with bat and ball to win the second one-dayer by eight wickets on Monday and get a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Seamer Vinay Kumar return with his best international figures of four for 30 as a lackluster England were shot out for 237 in good batting circumstances at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in New Delhi.
Virat Kohli then shattered a winning 112, his seventh one-day century, and Gautam Gambhir made 84 not out as the under-strength hosts surpass the unassuming target under lights in the 37th over.
Tempers flare in the second session between England's fielders and India's batsmen, forcing the umpires to interfere on at least three occasions.
India, exhausted by the nonattendance of seven World Cup-winning stars due to injury or poor form, will enfold up the series if they win the third match in Mohali on Thursday.
The hosts had won the first game in Hyderabad by 126 runs last Friday. A series win will help Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men make compensation for the unsuccessful tour of England newly where they were blanked 4-0 in the Test series before losing the one-dayers 3-0.
"I'm happy we're back to our winning ways, it's actually good," said Dhoni. "Of course the tour of England was not a good one for us, but the team show character to bounce back.
"We wanted a good start and Vinay and the other bowlers gave us that with usual wickets. Virat batted very well and Gautam played luminously.
"This was a good one-day wicket but I would have favored a bit more turn. I think a turning wicket is a sporting track in India."
Dhoni, ask if he was looking for a 5-0 sweep, said: "For us it's all about winning one game at a time and humanizing ourselves as cricketers, particularly with so many youngsters in the side."
Kevin Pietersen's 46 was the top score for England as wickets tumble at normal intervals after captain Alastair Cook won the toss and elected to bat on an easy-paced pitch.
Fast bowler Tim Bresnan gave England a lifeline when he detached both openers, Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane, by the seventh over to make India 29-2.
But Delhi team-mates Kohli and Gambhir delighted some 30,000 home fans with and 209-run attractive partnership that took India home.
England had made a catastrophic start, losing openers Cook and Craig Kieswetter before a run had been scored.
Cook admit the bad start exaggerated his team. "It's a long way back from zero for two," he said. "We got a lot of 30s and 40s but we know that does not win a game.
"Virat and Gambhir showed us how it's done. Credit to the way they played. There was one half-chance, but apart from that they gave us nothing.
"We prepared well in the practice games, but we have not translated that to the main games. We need to score more runs, and our fielding was not quite to standard."
World champions India worked up England once once more with bat and ball to win the second one-dayer by eight wickets on Monday and get a 2-0 lead in the five-match series.
Seamer Vinay Kumar return with his best international figures of four for 30 as a lackluster England were shot out for 237 in good batting circumstances at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground in New Delhi.
Virat Kohli then shattered a winning 112, his seventh one-day century, and Gautam Gambhir made 84 not out as the under-strength hosts surpass the unassuming target under lights in the 37th over.
Tempers flare in the second session between England's fielders and India's batsmen, forcing the umpires to interfere on at least three occasions.
India, exhausted by the nonattendance of seven World Cup-winning stars due to injury or poor form, will enfold up the series if they win the third match in Mohali on Thursday.
The hosts had won the first game in Hyderabad by 126 runs last Friday. A series win will help Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men make compensation for the unsuccessful tour of England newly where they were blanked 4-0 in the Test series before losing the one-dayers 3-0.
"I'm happy we're back to our winning ways, it's actually good," said Dhoni. "Of course the tour of England was not a good one for us, but the team show character to bounce back.
"We wanted a good start and Vinay and the other bowlers gave us that with usual wickets. Virat batted very well and Gautam played luminously.
"This was a good one-day wicket but I would have favored a bit more turn. I think a turning wicket is a sporting track in India."
Dhoni, ask if he was looking for a 5-0 sweep, said: "For us it's all about winning one game at a time and humanizing ourselves as cricketers, particularly with so many youngsters in the side."
Kevin Pietersen's 46 was the top score for England as wickets tumble at normal intervals after captain Alastair Cook won the toss and elected to bat on an easy-paced pitch.
Fast bowler Tim Bresnan gave England a lifeline when he detached both openers, Parthiv Patel and Ajinkya Rahane, by the seventh over to make India 29-2.
But Delhi team-mates Kohli and Gambhir delighted some 30,000 home fans with and 209-run attractive partnership that took India home.
England had made a catastrophic start, losing openers Cook and Craig Kieswetter before a run had been scored.
Cook admit the bad start exaggerated his team. "It's a long way back from zero for two," he said. "We got a lot of 30s and 40s but we know that does not win a game.
"Virat and Gambhir showed us how it's done. Credit to the way they played. There was one half-chance, but apart from that they gave us nothing.
"We prepared well in the practice games, but we have not translated that to the main games. We need to score more runs, and our fielding was not quite to standard."
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