Cricket

Dhoni aiming for 7-0 win

India’s skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is aiming at a 7-0 whitewash in the ODI series against England, despite having clinched the series by taking an unassailable 4-0 lead after winning a thriller here.

The Indian team for the fifth match in Cuttack is likely to undergo changes in order to rest some senior players, who have played a lot of cricket in recent months.

“You will see a few changes in the side in the next three matches. Some of the people who have not played in the series so far will play but we still look to win games,” Dhoni said after leading his team to a 19-run win via Duckworth-Lewis method. “Three more matches to come and we want to win those games.”

“India is playing fantastic cricket at the moment. It was a learning curve for the youngsters and also the guys who have been around. It’s never nice to lose a series and we are now 4-0 down in the series. But it was against a side which has beaten the mighty Australia and now England,” Pietersen said.

Trailing the seven-match series 0-4 and facing a possible whitewash, Pietersen said England attack lost its firepower in India’s placid tracks.According to him, the Indians are generally vulnerable to swing and bounce but the tracks here were quite unresponsive.

“It has been a totally different ball game here,” Pietersen rued. The England captain, meanwhile, was highly impressed by the Team India vice captain and said, “Sehwag is great to watch.”

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