India vs England Live Score, Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I on Motera Live Updates: Kohli redirects a full shot from Jordan to the thin leg, which would have been a limit had it not been for Morgan placing protection in that area. A point and a single on the next two installments, before Virat finishes it off in style with a four and a six on consecutive installments. India bounces back in style after being outscored in the previous game. winning by seven wickets this time with 13 balls to spare! Virat Kohli produced a captain’s stroke, remaining undefeated at 73, with Ishan Kishan (56) having previously laid the foundations for his company.
Preview, second T20I: India will be looking to bounce back from the eight-wicket beating in England’s first T20I and the series leveled in the second game at Biker in Ahmedabad.
England put on a complete show in the opening match, using conditions to best use, defeating India cheaply before their top four broke the races in quick time to seal victory.
Led by Jofra Archer’s 3-23, England restricted India to 124-7.
Jason Roy and Jos Buttler started with 72 and England won 130-2 with 27 balls to spare.
Roy and Buttler went up 50 runs in the first six overs. Roy was out of 49, leg caught before the wicket by Washington Sundar, and Buttler made 28.
Jonny Bairstow was undefeated at 26 and Dawid Malan at 24 after hitting six wins against Sundar.
Archer took a wicket from his second installment when Lokesh Rahul played fast pitcher again on his stumps. Hardik Pandya and Shardul Thakur fell into the last pacemaker over in successive installments.
Captain Virat Kohli, struggling in the previous 3-1 Test Series win against England, fell 0 to walker Adil Rashid when India fell to 3-20 in the first five overs and failed to recover.
Shreyas Iyer hit 67 of 48 balls in a below-average batting effort for India.
India captain Virat Kohli and England captain pose with the series trophy. Sportzpics for BCCI
Kohli claimed at the end of the game that the India hitter made bad shots and that is something that needs to be corrected in the next game.
“We just weren’t aware of what we had to do on that kind of field, I think the lack of execution of the shots that we tried to play there in the middle is something that we have to address as hitters that it wasn’t.” It’s an ideal day in the park, “Kohli said.
It would be interesting to see where Rohit Sharma is resting during the first two games, back to the side or not as India seeks to find answers in the higher order with Shikhar Dhawan and KL Rahul failing in the first match.
Also, Kohli might be interested in playing Navdeep Saini considering India lost a fast pitcher who can pitch at 140.
Squads:
India: Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Rishabh Pant (w), Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Suryakumar Yadav, Rahul, Tewatini T Natarajan, Ishan Kishan, Rohit Sharma, Rahul Chahar
England: Jason Roy, Jos Buttler (w), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan (c), Ben Stokes, Sam Curran, Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Reece Topley, Moeen Ali, Tom Curran, Liam Livingstone
The match starts at 7pm.
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With AP inputs
