| India has won the fifth one-day international cricket | | | | forced play to be scored by using the Duckworth |
| match against England in Leeds. India beats England | | | | Lewis method. India ended up a 38-run winner to |
| by 38 runs in a rainy one-day cricket international to | | | | lessen England's lead in the seven-match series to 3-2. |
| uphold the chance of winning the seven-match series. | | | | At a point, England was actually well short of the |
| England gets over at 242-8 after 38 overs, short of | | | | Duckworth / Lewis par score on 242 for eight off 39 |
| its target under the Duckworth-Lewis method for | | | | overs. India's 324 for six marked its third top one-day |
| deciding matches curtailed by adverse weather. | | | | international total against England. India now trails 3-2 |
| Earlier, India cracked 324-6 from 50 overs. | | | | and could a well claim the series if it wins the left |
| England was at first trying to chase 325 to win, but | | | | over two matches, at the Oval on Sept. 5 and Lord's |
| lost three wickets unfortunately for seven runs in 13 | | | | three days later. It won the Test series 1-0 last |
| balls as it baggy to 104 for four. Soon after the rain | | | | month for its first conquest on English soil ever since |
| stopped play midway through the 17th over, England | | | | 1986. All the visitor's batsmen ransacked runs against |
| was chasing a revised target of 311 in 45 overs. But | | | | an England hit missing injured bowlers Andrew Flintoff |
| rain at last forced to end up the match. Rain Sunday | | | | and as well with Chris Tremlett. |