England all-rounder Moeen Ali says watching India’s Suresh Raina has encouraged him to maintain an attacking approach to batting in one-day internationals.

Ali’s 67 – his team’s first fifty of the series – was the lone highlight for England in their nine-wicket thrashing by world champions India in Birmingham on Tuesday.

That defeat took England down to a 3-0 one-day international series loss ahead of Friday’s finale in Leeds.

The match marked Ali’s series debut and his first ODI in England.

But in his role as a squad member he paid close attention to the way India batsman Raina made 100 in the tourists’ 133-run win in the second ODI in Cardiff after the team had been struggling at 19 for two.

“Watching someone like Suresh Raina, they were in trouble and he came out and played the way he played,” Ali told reporters at Headingley on Thursday.

“He took a few risks and they came off. He backed himself.

“I tried to copy it a little a bit,” added Ali, who could well be promoted up the order from number seven on Friday.

Some pundits have tried to explain England’s poor one-day form – they have now lost five out of their last six ODI series – by citing the huge emphasis the English game puts on Test cricket.

But Ali, asked if the team “cared” about one-day cricket, replied: “Definitely. It doesn’t even cross our minds (not to).”

Anyone at Edgbaston on Tuesday could have been forgiven for thinking India were the home side, such was the vocal and visible support for the tourists from at least two-thirds of the crowd.

Ali, despite being Birmingham-born, even found himself being booed by some supporters.

“It doesn’t really bother me. I just go out and block it out and try and play as best as I can,” he said.

“Obviously the noise for the India players was a lot more than ours but it doesn’t bother me one bit,” he said.

As for the jeers, Ali added: “It just goes straight over my head. I think it’s maybe because my background is from Pakistan but it doesn’t bother me.”

Ali, a practising Muslim, reiterated his call for British-born Asians to support England, saying it was odd to hear Birmingham voices cheering on India.

“Definitely – and they’ve got a Brummy (Birmingham) accent or whatever and some of the chants are English chants.

“But it’s just the way it is, hopefully over time we can change.”