Match starts 1430 BST Friday.

Was the England win in the first ODI just a fluke?, after all their recent perfomances would point to that - or is it a begining of a new era for England under Collingwood in one day cricket?.

Todays match may not give many clues - the India squad have been depleted by a mass out break of "Flu".

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Match comments on this thread please.

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Ern

Are India getting the excuses in early in case they get beaten again?

I bet it isn't flu anyway just a few with a cold.

Won't see much of this as i am off out later but i hope we can put in another decent performance.

It's interesting that India have gone with two spinners whilst we have dropped Monty and gone with a one dimentional pace attack. Now Monty hasn't torn up any trees in one day cricket but if the pitch is as good as it sounds then some kind of variety is always paramount and Tremlett's brand of short wide bowling hardly inspires confidence in the shorter format.

56/0. So far so good, but no fireworks by anyone as yet.

And Greg, sporting excuses are more of an English speciality than any other nation on Earth and not just in cricket either.

83-0 and Sachin Tendulkar reaches his 80th ODI fifty. He is on fire at the moment but looking a the rest of India's line-up, if they can get this man out, England stand a chance of stopping them and keeping them under 250. Ganguly and Tendulkar using the Powerplays well, is it it England's turn to flop under pressure?

Pretty poor captaincy from Collingwood in not chosing to delay the second power play. It didn't take a genius to figure out that Ganguly would target the inexperienced Tremlett with the field up and he unsurprisingly on this placid pitch (allied to ridiculous length boundary's) got away with it. Time for Dimitri's medium pace rubbish to get through 10 tidy unthreatening and wicketless overs whilst India milk him as they set the platform for a monster total.

This looks cool right now. I just started watching the game and looks like the good old days when Ganguly and Tendulkar used to give us some great opening partnerships. And there goes a typical text book drive from Tendulkar. And Tendulkar dropped. That was a very difficult chance though.

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ANd Ganguly gone.....

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India have still got off to a good start though. The platform is now set for a score of around 300.

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Mark.

Tremlet is having a bad day. Went for runs and dropped Tendulkar.

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