IND VS ENG - 2nd ODI, England tour of India, 2016-17

Plugin:commteam:An exclusive interview with Virat Kohli, who talks about self-belief, confidence, the need for change in India's sporting culture and more. Our man Ganesh Chandrasekaran gets the privilege - What makes Virat Kohli believe

Two games, two run feasts, two attacks reduced to bowling machines - but in the end two absolute thrillers. India clinch yet another ODI series against the English, this time under the Kohli era with contributions from those from an earlier one. Sunday now promises to be another crowd puller with nearly 70000 Kolkatans and with all the enigma of the Eden waiting to be unleashed. For now, it is time for us to recover from the plundering we witnessed. This is Vineet Anantharaman bidding goodbye with Srivathsa, Ramakrishnan, Kumar Abhisekh Das and Sreenivas in a hurry to go home cursing these mind numbingly poor over rates. Ta ta!!

Yuvraj: "Yes the domestic season helped me immensely. I have been hitting the ball really well and working very hard on my fitness and the results showed today. Yes definitely, the lady luck is there and the prayers of my mother and my Guruji have helped me and kept me going. Mahi and me understand the situation very well and we have played with each other for quite a bit to understand each other as well. I started to hit the ball along the ground and not take any risk and once we got the rhythm and the partnership going we started to kick on. We weren't thinking of a big score but once we got a 50-run partnership going we started to keep playing our shots. We were thinking of 340-350 but with wickets in hand ended up at 380. I rate this innings as my best because I started my career as a lower order batsman and the higher you bat the more the runs you'll get. It was a dream to get a 150 and am glad I got there. I had a lot of belief in myself though there wasn't much from outside and spoke to Sanjay (Bangar) and told him that a big one was coming soon. (About his fitness) I think my diet is the key and that is what I have learnt from my seniors like Tendulkar and Kumble."

Yuvraj Singh is the Man of the Match for his career best knock

Kohli: "We were wondering if we had a good start where we were going to end up today. 25/3, under the pump and not great batting initially but two of our greats stepping up took us there. That is exactly what we envisioned on getting Yuvi back. Scoring at four runs an over and ending up with 381 was incredible. I thought 340 was par taking the wicket and the dew into consideration, 380 was far fetched though they got close going hard at the start and at the end. We knew we would get wickets at some stage or the other. Bowling second was pretty difficult and I was wondering how it would have been had we chased this one. With the dew taking full effect under lights, I thought it was an incredible effort from all our bowlers to keep them down. My situation is slightly different, winning the series first is important before I try and experiment. The next game will be key for us with the Champions Trophy coming up. The openers will need to express themselves and we can figure out what the best combination would be for us. With the little guy coming in at the end and blasting it away, it says a lot about us. Both the spinners coming off a strong Test series has been a strong point for us. Stepping up just when the team needed. Jadeja, conceding only 45-odd runs in his ten overs and then Ashwin coming in was key. The way they struck in the middle overs and pulled things back for us for very important. I think we are playing up to only 75 percent of out potential. If all the batsmen explode we might get a lot more. Calcutta might be the place"

Morgan: "Yeah, we needed someone in the top-rder to get a big hundred. We weren't at our best today. Disappointed to get very close and not manage to get over the line. But India played better than us in very similar conditions to what we were in the last game. We weren't at our best today with the ball and bowling to an in Dhoni and Yuvraj with the bats these days and the five men inside the circle is never easy. The last ten are slightly easier but the run up to those ten aren't. We knew how dangerous those two can be and the challenge for us was to break that partnership. We showed a lot of fight, we have a huge amount of talent and we believed we could chase that down. We have chased 350 down earlier, almost chased 398 against New Zealand but we just did not have the skills today to pull it off. Honestly Cuttack has been the best of all the crowds that we have had in this series."

Ravi Ashwin: Obviously, very important to forget the last game. The ground was slightly smaller at Pune. The ground here was slightly bigger. It was important to start off from where I was comfortable with. Actually it was very very important to get the feedback from Mahi from behind the sticks as to what pace and channels to bowl at. The game has changed quite a bit in the last year or so. You have to go for wickets. The extra fielder also helps. Especially the margin by which we won, we needed those wickets as they were big big players for England in the chase. It was very very important to chip away with the wickets in the middle overs. Jaddu is very economical with his line and length and allows me the allowance to go for wickets. It is a fine line but I don't mind that. There was a lot of dew and you try not to use the seam a lot rather go cross seam.

Gone are the days when 381 on the board turns it into a no-contest. Certainly not with this new English side that has crossed the shores. Had it not been for the slice of luck with Morgan's wicket, you never know where the fortune would have swung. A very different sort of win for India - one where the top order failed, one where the old warhorses showed the worth and one where the spinners managed to rob the runs and the wickets in the middle with four wickets despite all the dew. All said and done, a contest worthy of wiping away the memories of the absolute farce that Cuttack witnessed the last time around. Hang in there, the presentation on its way..

Kohli finds his arms. The crowd finds his voice. And just as the arms go up in celebration the decibels kick the danger radar. A win by 15 runs and India take the series. A highly animated celebration from the team, very unlike this side but such has been the nature of this contest. Nearly 750 runs and it required the final three deliveries to realize that the hurdle couldn't be breached. Yuvi leads the pack with his bear hugs and the 150 energy sapping stuff earlier in the day doesn't seem to have any effect on him. And why shouldn't he? Who would have imagined him coming back into the side and carrying his side over the line. Just.

Bhuvneshwar to Plunkett, 1 run, and India seal the deal. All it required was an over filled with yorkers by Bhuvi to close it off. Another one comes right in and it is slapped away without getting under it. Rolls away to long-off but the Indians are ecstatic. So is Barabati

Bhuvneshwar to Plunkett, no run, a finger rolling yorker. Too good for the number nine. Too good for him to even manage getting some wood on it as he slashes hard

Bhuvneshwar to Willey, 1 run, and Kohli has his fist pump. Was way too quiet all day and the perfect yorker enables him to do the same. Jammed away off the inside edge to a diving Dhoni. Only a single. Mathematically out are the English

18 needed off 3. Do England have a Carlos?

Bhuvneshwar to Willey, 2 runs, a misfied. But it continues to keep Plunkett off strike. Pierces it to extra cover and Ashwin, with all his nerves lets the ball hop off his thigh in backing up

Bhuvneshwar to Plunkett, 1 run, brilliance all around in the field. In the slot that coaches ask for and Plunkett stabs it out to cover. Where Yuvraj was stationed and he shows us glimpes of his age old self with his dive to intercept a certain boundary

Bhuvneshwar to Willey, 1 run, serious death bowling. Fires it on the wide side flirting with the line but how does that matter? Willey isn't going to leave it alone, stretches and carves it past point. Just a single. 21 off 5 needed

England need 22 runs off the final over. A boundary yielding start a must now

Bumrah to Plunkett, FOUR, the scoop. But 90-degrees on the other side from the one he would have liked. Sinks on a knee, waits for the fullish length to get to him. Off the chunky leading edges off today's massive edges to take it over the vacant cordon

Bumrah to Willey, 1 run, way way outside off. Willey reaches out and steers it away to point

Bumrah to Plunkett, 1 run, crouches low with a stoop and drills it away to long-off