Set 259 to win, India cruised home with 28 balls to spare to go 1-0 up in a three-match series. It was their first triumph of a tour where they had suffered 2-0 and 4-0 T20 series losses to Ireland and England respectively.Gill top-scored with 80, from just 75 balls, before limping off with what appeared to be cramp. A team spokesman told AFP after stumps that Gill was expected to be fit for Thursday's second ODI in Cardiff.It was at Edgbaston last year that Gill, also India's red-ball skipper, became the first batsman to make a double century in one innings of a Test match and a score of 150 in the other.But for his retirement, the 26-year-old might have had another hundred at Warwickshire's headquarters.
India's Shubman Gill hits out during the 1st ODI against England at Edgbaston © Oli SCARFF / AFP
Gill and T20 captain Shreyas Iyer shared a century partnership after India lost Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli in quick succession to be 48-2.England did reduce India to 160-4 after Gill retired.But Washington Sundar (52 not out) and Axar Patel (57 not out) put the result beyond doubt with a blizzard of boundaries in an unbroken stand of 102.Patel, who had previously taken four wickets in England's 258 all out, completed a fine fifty when he slog-swept off-spinner Will Jacks for a fifth four in 39 balls faced. Sundar ended the game in style, with a straight six off leg-spinner Adil Rashid that saw him to his fifty. Kohli failsThe massed ranks of India spectators at Edgbaston cheering those half-centuries had fallen silent when star batsman Kohli was plumb lbw to fast bowler Jofra Archer for just five.Kohli has already retired from both Test and T20 cricket and this series could be the last the 37-year-old plays for India in England.
