High-scoring thriller ends in heart-stopping tie

Feb 27, 2011

Virender Sehwag began the innings with a few streaky shots •Getty Images

Sehwag's luck ran out as Tim Bresnan dismissed him for 35•Getty Images

But Tendulkar looked in imperious touch•AFP

Yuvraj Singh notched up a fifty off 46 balls•AFP

Andrew Strauss and Kevin Pietersen launched England's chase in style•AFP

Piyush Chawla trapped Jonathan Trott leg-before cheaply at the other end•Getty Images

Strauss and Bell put on 170 leaving England needing 58 from eight overs. That's when Strauss took the batting Powerplay•Associated Press

Tim Bresnan clobbered a huge six over midwicket in the penultimate over to revive English hopes•Associated Press

After a couple of good balls from Munaf, Graeme Swann needed to get 2 off the last ball. He managed a single ....•Associated Press

Sachin Tendulkar began cautiously but slowly found his groove•Getty Images

Gautam Gambhir joined Tendulkar and looked in good touch•Getty Images

He carted the England bowlers all over the park ...•Getty Images

Amid the carnage Bresnan finished with 5 for 48•Getty Images

It took a stunning reflex catch from Munaf Patel to send back Pietersen for 31 off 22 balls•Getty Images

Ian Bell joined Strauss in a free-flowing stand, and suddenly 338 did not seem as far as it had looked initially for England•Getty Images

Zaheer Khan brought India back in the first Powerplay over, getting Bell and Strauss off successive deliveries•Getty Images

Chawla then bowled Bresnan with the last ball of the 49th leaving England with 14 to win off 6 balls•Getty Images

... and the game ended, fittingly, in a tie•Getty Images

The pair notched up a century partnership to lay a solid foundation for India before Gambhir was dismissed•AFP

... to bring up his 47th ODI century•Getty Images

Despite Bresnan's late strikes, India ended with a mammoth 338•AFP

Strauss was picking the gaps all too easily, and reached his half-century at a run-a-ball•AFP

Nothing seemed to trouble Strauss as he motored to a century in 99 balls•Getty Images

In his next over, Zaheer pegged back Paul Collingwood's off stump. Suddenly, England had lost half their side, and still required 52 in five overs•Getty Images

Ajmal Shahzad blasted Munaf's third ball straight down the ground for six to take England to the brink. 5 needed off 3•AFP