News - IND vs ENG First T20

IND VS ENG 

After a great disappointment in the test series, the visitors made a brilliant comeback in the first T20I. English side demonstrated a completely dominant game on Narendra Modi Stadium, yesterday. An outstanding pace bowling attack restricted India at a score of 124 runs at a loss of 7 wickets. A complete wave of dominance was pictured by the English side in both batting and bowling. The English openers made a partnership of 72 runs ( Jason Roy-49runs 32balls & Jos Buttler- 28runs 24balls) which cemented their win. On the other hand, the Indian batting performed poorly than they did in the test series. Indian batting showed a slow start and lost wickets early in the game. The English bowlers kept it tight and continuously built pressure on Indian batting and as a result of this, Indian lost their first 3 wickets on a low of 20 runs which included the wickets of the openers, Shikhar Dhawan & K.L. Rahul, and the very precious wicket of Indian skipper and also the ICC player of the decade Virat Kohli (0 runs-5 balls). Only 3 Indian batsmen were able to achieve double-figure scores namely Hardik Pandya 19 runs, Shreyas Iyer 67 runs, and Rishabh Pant 23 runs. Shreyas Iyer showed a matured and experienced piece of batting, scoring 67 runs out of 48 balls. Rishabh Pant has always entertained the audience by playing a fancy shot against the lightning ball of thunderbolt Archer, but the excitement of the fans was short-lived as Rishabh got out on a score of 23 runs in 24 balls. For the English side, Jofra Archer bowled a tight spell of 4 overs and took 3 wickets, and gave only 23 runs on an economy of fewer than 6  runs per over. Ben Stokes, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood, all the three got a one-one wicket each while the young-gun of England and Chennai Super Kings was unable to open his account in the wickets bank.

-Raghav Blogs