India brought in left-armer Rudra Pratap Singh in place of Ajit Agarkar for the seventh and final ODI against England.
England declared their first innings on 551-6.
Andrew Flintoff said England were still confident of retaining the Ashes despite losing the first Test of the five-match series by 277 runs on Monday.
Andrew Flintoff could lead England in case a stomach bug keeps Paul Collingwood out of the fourth ODI against India.
England captain Andrew Flintoff said his young team were still upbeat despite their dire situation in the opening Ashes Test.
Former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has hinted that he could continue his cricketing comeback with a stint in Australia's domestic Twenty20 Big Bash league.
Sourav Ganguly says that apart from his regular role with the bat, he could also be useful as a bowler in the favourable conditions of England and Ireland.
Nathan Bracken believes a mint sweet could have been the secret weapon behind England's Ashes victory.
Michael Vaughan attacked South Africa captain Graeme Smith for being childish, dictatorial and something of a schoolboy bully.
The England batsman won the Emerging Player and the ODI Player of the Year at the ICC awards.
England coach Peter Moores said on Sunday that he hopes Andrew Flintoff will take another step towards a return to test cricket by resuming bowling again in a county match this week.
Adam Gilchrist played fierce, played tidy and downright cheeky to score record-breaking 103 runs off 79 balls
India's Dinesh Karthik has been shortlisted for the Emerging Player of the Year award.
Andrew Strauss will remain captain for the remainder of England's Test series against Pakistan as Andrew Flintoff prepares to undergo ankle surgery this week.
England face severely depleted Zimbabwe, while New Zealand take on the United States in the ICC Champions Trophy on Friday.
The left-hander was named as caretaker captain for the first Test against Pakistan while Andrew Flintoff recovers from a heel injury.
He was the manager of the Indian team during its memorable NatWest Trophy triumph over England at Lord's way back in 2002 and Rajiv Shukla has revealed that Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman refused then skipper Sourav Ganguly's request of taking off their shirts and wave it.
England's captain said Kevin Pietersen's first innings 142 paved the way for England's six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second Test.
Flintoff will undergo further tests later this week after being ruled out of Lancashire's county championship match against Essex at Old Trafford, which started on Wednesday.
India included R P Singh in the eleven, while England omitted Matthew Hoggard for the first ODI.
He will stand-in for Andrew Flintoff, who went home after the Test series to see his newborn son
The latest LG ICC Player Rankings for Test cricket saw Tendulkar drop four places to 16th.
The top-order batsman, out of international cricket for a year with a knee injury, takes over from Andrew Flintoff for the Twenty20 game against Australia.
"It's nonsense. I hope to play for a long time yet," the England skipper said.
The ace leg spinner claimed 5-39 as England collapsed to 159 all out on the first day of the fourth Test.
Flintoff led the team during England's failed Ashes campaign while Vaughan was recovering from knee surgery.
Trescothick has flown back home while Vaughan is nursing a sore knee.
Australia won back the Ashes when they bowled out England for 350 to seal a 206-run victory in the third Test on Monday.
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