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Kohli: Shardul and Bhuvneshwar should have been Player of the Match and Series

  India's seven-run win in the third ODI against England won them the series 2-1 and completed a sweep across formats. India had put up 329 and had England on the ropes at 257 for 8, but a career-best 83-ball 95* by  Sam Curran  kept England in the game till the end of the final over. Curran had also got the wicket of a free-flowing Rishabh Pant to end India's best partnership in their innings. In a relatively rare occurrence, players from the losing side were awarded the Player-of-the-Match and Player-of-the-Series awards, Curran winning the former and  Jonny Bairstow  the latter for  topping the run-charts  in the series with scores of 94, 124 and 1. India captain  Virat Kohli  expressed his surprise at the choices for the awards, holding that  Shardul Thakur  and  Bhuvneshwar Kumar were better candidates for both. "I am quite surprised that he (Thakur) wasn't the Man of the Match today, to be honest," Kohli told Star Sports at the post-match presentation ceremo
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Jos Buttler proud of the way England stuck to values despite defeat to India

 Jos Buttler , England's stand-in captain, says he is proud of the manner in which his side stayed true to the values that won them the 50-over World Cup at Lord's two years ago, despite succumbing to a thrilling seven-run defeat in the ODI series decider against India in Pune. Faced with a stiff target of 330, England had slumped to 168 for 6 shortly after the halfway mark of their innings, but kept throwing their punches to the bitter end. Sam Curran belied a previous ODI highest score of 15 to finish with 95 not out from 83 balls, but a lack of batting partners undermined his attempts to seal the chase, as he was forced to turn down singles in the frantic closing overs. And with Dawid Malan producing a run-a-ball 50 after his promotion to the full squad as an injury replacement for Eoin Morgan, and Liam Livingstone playing his second free-spirited innings in as many ODIs after stepping into Sam Billings' role in the middle order, Buttler believes that England have made s
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