Yuvraj and skipper Dhoni made mincemeat of the visiting team's largely one-dimensional attack to rattle up a stand of 105 runs in only 58 balls for the fifth wicket. The lone batsman to fail was Yousuf Pathan (0), who lasted only two balls.

A total of thirteen sixes were clobbered off the England bowlers by the hosts to leave the visitors shell-shocked and helped India to their highest-ever ODI total against a Test-playing nation.

England captain Pietersen rung in quick changes and called on experienced duo of Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison to stem the flow of runs from Sehwag and Gambhir.

But they also failed to apply the brake and Pietersen turned to left arm spinner Samit Patel, who could not make any impact. Faced with a stiff target, the England innings never really took off with Matt Prior (4) falling prey to Munaf Patel while Zaheer Khan accounted for Owais Shah (0) to reduce the visitors to 17 for two by the fifth over.

The dismissal of the hard-hitting Andrew Flintoff (4), trapped leg before by Zaheer, came as a huge setback for England who desperately needed him to click to entertain hopes of overhauling the target.

Paul Collingwood (19) also could not survive for long with Harbhajan Singh taking his wicket and the off-spinner struck a few minutes later by evicting Samit Patel much to the delight of his teammates.