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Sam Curran creates history, equals Chris Woakes' record for highest individual score at number 8 in ODIs

Abhishek Singh

England all-rounder Sam Curran almost took the game away from India’s scalp after a brilliant effort with the bat. The left-arm batsman scored an unbeaten 95 off 83 balls, laced with nine fours and three sixes. In the process, he also equalled countryman Chris Woakes’ record for the most number of runs in an ODI innings while batting at number eight. Woakes had achieved the milestone while batting against Sri Lanka at Nottingham in 2016. 

Curran came in to bat when England were struggling at 168-6 in 26th over. He dug deep and so deep that he almost got his team over the line. Playing a second fiddle to Moeen Ali, he added 32 runs with the former. But It was his partnership with Adil Rashid that started turning things around for England. 

The pair added 57 for the ninth wicket. Even as Rashid got out, Curran didn’t stop and built another very crucial partnership with number 10 Mark Wood. They together England to the last over needing just 14 runs off it. In the last over, Mark Wood got run out as a bullet throw from Hardik Pandya didn’t give him any chance to return back to crease when Curran slipped at the non- striker’s end the call for two had to be abandoned. These 59 runs came at run a ball. 

Curran, backing himself to clear the boundaries off the last four balls as just 12 were required, couldn’t really do that. He hit just one four and didn’t take a single even off the last ball. Had he done that, he could have gone past Woakes with ease. This was Sam Curran’s only second List A fifty ever. His calm was often being compared to his IPL skipper at Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni, especially when the 23-year-old refused to take the singles and took the onus upon himself to win the game for England.

The match at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune was won by India eventually by seven runs and the hosts went on to lift the ODI trophy as well, having already won the Test and the T20I series.

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