New Delhi: The first match of the 3-match T20 series between India and England was played last night. India’s regular captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat first. Pehl Batting, India scored 198 runs and England set a target of 199 runs for tomorrow. Chasing the target, the England team was all out for 148 runs.
Match events:
- India won the toss and elected to bat
- Batting first, India scored 198 for 8 wickets.
- While chasing the target, England scored 148 runs for 10 wickets.
- Result: India wins by a huge margin of 50 runs.
- Hardik Pandya became the Player of the Match. Hardik scored 50 runs in this match and also took 4 wickets while bowling.
- England’s innings were like this
England’s batting was done by captain Jos Buttler and opening batsman Jason Roy. Lethal fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar.l, who bowled the first over for India, clean bowled Jos Buttler on the fifth ball of the first over. Butler tackles for zero.
David Malan, who came to bat at number three, also went on to make 21 runs in 14 balls. On the second ball of the fifth over of the match, Hardik Pandya dismissed Malan and Liam Livingston also became the victim of Pandya. They could not even open the account.
England scored 33 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in their powerplay batting. On the first ball after the powerplay, Hardik Pandya also got the way to the pavilion to Jason Roy. This was Hardik’s third wicket.
There was a good partnership between Brooke and Moeen Ali for the 5th wicket. Together they added 61 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal broke this partnership. Chahal took the wicket of Harry Brooke.
After this Moeen Ali also walked away. As soon as Moeen Ali tried to play on the delivery of Yuzvendra Chahal, the ball deceived and wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik was stumped.
After this, England’s defeat was almost certain. It was just a formality. Arshdeep Singh finished the match by taking the 10th wicket in the last over of the match and made a brilliant debut in his international debut match, taking just 18 runs in 3.3 overs with 1 maiden over. England lost. Another spectacular victory came under the captaincy of captain Rohit Sharma.
