Reece Topley took 6 for 24, his best ODI figures, as England thrashed India by 100 runs in the second ODI at Lord’s to tie the three-match series at 1-1.

England were all out for 246 in 49 overs after being put in, with Yuzvendra Chahal taking 4 for 47. Even reaching that point was made possible by a 62-run seventh-wicket stand between Moeen Ali and David Willey.

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At the innings break, it appeared to be a routine total, but India was in for a surprise. Topley and Willey got movement and extra bounce and reduced India to 31 for 4 by the end of the 12th over. The recovery never materialised, and their lengthy tail – Mohammed Shami at eighth – didn’t help matters either. They were eventually bowled out for 146 in 38.5 overs.

Earlier in the day, Jasprit Bumrah and Shami bowled a testing spell with the new ball, using the early dew on the surface to worry Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow.

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Jason Roy appeared to be the more hesitant of the two England openers, being routinely beaten on both the inside and outside edge. But, although the Indian bowlers were lucky in the first ODI, where wayward drives fetched edges and edges found fielders, England were the lucky side on Thursday.

Shami found the inner edge of Roy’s bat in the fifth over after repeatedly striking the outer edge of both openers. The ball, though, missed the stumps and went for four. In Shami’s next over, Bairstow swung his bat at a length ball, got an outside edge, and scored four runs through the recently vacated second slip area.

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The England batsmen played 22 incorrect shots in the opening ten overs, the same number as in the first ODI. They resulted in five wickets at The Oval, but only one wicket for India here.

Roy survived against Bumrah and Shami before succumbing to a half-volley from Hardik Pandya. He tried a flick, but the bat spun in his palm, resulting in a simple deep-backward square leg chance.

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Jonny Bairstow had begun to appear dangerous and had advanced to 38 off 37 balls when he attempted a slog sweep against Chahal, only to completely miss it, with the ball rattling his stumps.

Soon after, Chahal flung one to Joe Root, who, like Bairstow, failed to connect the sweep and was lbw. Shami easily defeated Jos Buttler with a full delivery in the next over to make it 87 for 4.

Ben Stokes attempted to take on Chahal by hitting four reverse sweeps in a row, two of which yielded fours. The same hit, though, against the same bowler, resulted in his dismissal, lbw for 21.

At 102 for 5, Liam Livingstone and Moeen teamed up and added 46 off 45 balls. Moeen was more of an anchor, while Livingstone was his normal attacking self, engaged in a mini-battle with Hardik, who bowled him three short balls in a row.

The first one was launched into the stands beyond deep-backward square leg by Livingstone. The following one was much outside off, and Livingstone drove it to the deep-midwicket boundary for four. But Hardik had the third one covered. Livingstone skipped down the track this time but miscued the draw straight into the lap of replacement fielder Shreyas Iyer at deep square leg.

The next five overs, from the 30th to the 34th, yielded only 13 runs, with Praisdh Krishna dropping Willey off Hardik. Willey was on 1 at the time and would go on to score 41 runs.

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To make matters worse, Moeen and Willey each struck Prasidh for sixes a few overs later. Moeen was now trying to be more open. He hit Bumrah for his second six in the 41st over, but Chahal ended his innings on 47 when he mistimed a dig to deep square leg.

Willey was left with the tail. On the first ball of the 47th over, he hit Bumrah for a six, but when he attempted again later in the over, Bumrah snuck in a slower one and had him collected at long-on. England’s final two wickets fell in the next two overs.

It wasn’t a big target, but India’s pursuit never got started. Rohit looked like a cat on a hot tin roof in the first ODI, but he was lbw to Topley for a ten-ball duck when the ball tucked back just enough with the slope.

India took 4.3 overs to get their first run off the bat, despite collecting five leg-byes before that. Virat Kohli then calmed the nerves with three straight-driven fours from Topley, two of which came on consecutive balls.

Shikhar Dhawan, on the other hand, seemed as uneasy as Rohit and was eventually caught down the leg side off Topley for 9 from 26 balls. Rishabh Pant batted at No. 4, but before he could open his account he nicked a full toss from Brydon Carse to mid-on. Willey got Kohli to edge one behind in the next over to further damage them.

Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Patel had only begun to rebuild when Topley hit again, with Suryakumar smashing one onto his stumps. Hardik and Ravindra Jadeja got the team to 100 when Hardik top-edged to deep midwicket.

Jadeja and Shami added 39 for the seventh wicket, but it was merely a postponement of the inevitable. Topley bowled Chahal for his first five-wicket haul near the end of the game, and the game was over three balls later.