Ravi Bopara picked up three wickets in 16 balls as England restricted India to 129-7 from 20 overs in the rain-curtailed Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston on Sunday.
The one-day final, watched by a packed stadium, resembled a Twenty20 game after inclement weather that set in soon after the toss was held delayed the start by six hours.
The organisers, keen to provide some meaningful cricket for fans who waited patiently for the weather to improve, took the unusual decision to extend play by two hours to ensure a result.
Hosts England, looking to win their maiden one-day title, dismantled the Indian top-order after electing to bowl first in overcast conditions.
India were reduced to 66-5 before Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja boosted the total by adding a quickfire 47 for the sixth wicket.
Kohli smashed 43 off 34 balls that included four boundaries and a six, before he holed out in the deep off James Anderson in the penultimate over.
Jadeja returned unbeaten on a 25-ball 33 to leave England a victory target of 6.5 runs an over.
Rohit Sharma put on 19 runs for the first wicket with Shikhar Dhawan when he was bowled by Stuart Broad for nine in the fourth over.
Dhawan, who went into the final as the tournament's leading scorer with 332 runs in four matches, hit 31 of 24 balls that included a six over third-man against Broad.
But the left-hander was dismissed off Bopara's second delivery, caught in the covers by James Tredwell, to make India 50-2 in the ninth over.
It became 66-5 three overs later as Dinesh Karthik skied a catch off Tredwell, before Bopara removed Suresh Raina and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the space of four balls.
Raina drove Bopara straight to Alastair Cook at mid-on, while Dhoni (zero) slashed the bowler high to third man where Tredwell completed the catch.
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