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After winning the Test series, India’s goal is to maintain this dominance in limited overs cricket as well. To that end, Team India began playing the first T20 match at Motera on Friday.
India: 124/6 (20 overs)
England: 125/2 (15.3 overs)
The goal was just 125. Chasing that run, England lost just 2 wickets and snatched the victory with 26 balls remaining. The English won the first T20 in Motera by 7 wickets. England starter Jason Roy had 49 solo.
India’s hopes were dashed when Jason Roy and Jos Butler were eliminated 72 in the opening. After Joss Butler (26) and Jason Roy (49) left, Johnny Bairstow (24) and David Malan (24) led the team to victory.
Earlier, after losing the toss and opting to hit first, India was knocked out by 124 runs. T20 of Test. Short form cricket straight from five day cricket! This change is not at all happy in India.
In the Indian innings, only three runs were scored by Panth (21), Hardik Pandya (19) and Shreyas Iyer (6 of 46 balls). This is the obvious failure of India’s batting.
And on the day of this failure, Shreyas Iyer was brilliant with the bat. Only half a century dragged the team. His effective 7-run innings were arranged in 7 limits and 1 over limit.
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Virat Kohli returned once again to the pavilion with zero runs. He came back before opening the scoring twice in the Test series against the English. Despite the format change, Kohli was unable to close the gap to 0.
The disaster started from the second envelope of the Indian entries. From 1/2, 2/3 to five overs, the score stood at 20/3. Rishabh Panth (21) returned before the team passed half a century.
Shreyas Iyer and Hardik Pandya took the helm of the India innings from that very moment. The duo added 54 valuable runs for the fifth wicket. Then Iyer dragged the team to 124.
Joffrey Archer broke India with the ball. KL Rahul, Hardik Pandya and Shardul Tagore were fired for just 23 runs in their quota of four more. Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Ben Stokes and Chris Jordan also took a wicket each.
India’s First XI:
Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Rishav Panth, Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Shardul Tagore, Bhubaneswar Kumar, Yuzbendra Chahal
England first XI:
Jason Roy, Josh Butler, David Malan, Johnny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan, Sam Curran, Joffra Archer, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
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