England v India

Date released: 6 September 2007

The next match at Lord's is the decider in the NatWest one-day series between England and India. With the series tied at 3-3 the match at Lord's on Saturday 8th September will determine who wins the thrilling series.

Match information

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The gates at Lord's will open at 8:15am. Play is scheduled to start at 10:15am.

As ever there will be lots going on around the Ground beside the match itself.

The interval entertainment on the main ground will be a demonstration by some of England's finest blind cricketers. Players from the Sussex Sharks and the London Community Cricket Association will be demonstrating their sport during the interval.

The Backbeat Beatles will also be performing at Lord's on Saturday. The Beatles tribute act will be performing many of the group's hits at the Nursery end of the Ground - just yards from Abbey Road and NW8 resident, Sir Paul McCartney's house.

England

The home team head into the decider in fine fettle, despite two defeats in a row. They'll feel slightly agrieved to have lost the match at Headingley, on the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Paul Collingwood: Good form with the bat Despite India's imposing total and his protestations afterwards, skipper Paul Collingwood must have fancied a crack at the challenge of 83 from 66 balls, especially after his rampaging 91 from 71, including no fewer than four towering sixes.

Another England batsman in fine form is Ian Bell. His 49 at The Brit Oval takes him to 386 runs (from 420 balls) in the series so far - including that exemplary 126 at The Rose Bowl.

In the attack, last time out at Lord's, James Anderson got his name on the Honours Board. His 5-42 in the first innings means he now appears on the Honours Board twice.

A certain K.P. Pietersen was not to be outdone. His second innings century en-route to 134 was his third at Lord's. Given his one-day form and that unfortunate run-out at The Oval when he looked well set, he'd dearly love to add a fourth on Saturday.

India

Pietersen was one of Rudra Pratap Singh's Test match victims back in July. His own five-wicket haul meant it was a busy time for the Honours Board engravers!

Singh was dropped from the India side which won at Headingley as Rahul Dravid has struggled to find the perfect balance with his side.

Dravid: salutes a half-century during his last one-day visit to Lord's Dravid himself will be keen to set the record straight after his Test match scores of just two and nine. An unbeaten 92 at Bristol is more indicative of the talent he'll be keen to show off back at Lord's.

Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Tendulkar have also starred with the bat in the series so far.

After opening the one-day series with a duck at The Rose Bowl, Yuvraj's scores read: 49; 45; 71, 72 & 18.

Tendulkar too has, at times, been nearing his destructive best with scores of: 17; 99; 8; 55; 71 & 94.

The most recent match, at The Brit Oval, was a real nail-biter. India won by a narrow margain with just two balls to spare. Owais Shah's 107 from 95 balls; Dimitri Mascarenhas's staggering five last over sixes; Tendulkar at his imperious best and courageous batting from Robin Uthappa give just a taste of what we can expect at Lord's.

It should be an enthralling end to an action-packed series.