England slump to series defeat

The Australian watched on in Bangalore on Wednesday as England suffered a miserable collapse to lose the final T20 with India by 75 runs, the hosts securing a 2-1 series win. Chahal registered his career best 6/25, which makes him the first Indian bowler to take five or more wickets in a T20I match.

Virat Kohli (C), Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Amit Mishra, Jasprit Bumrah, Ashish Nehra and Yuzvendra Chahal.

The attacking spinner started England’s batting rot in the 14th over of the innings, getting dangermen Joe Root (42) and skipper Eoin Morgan (40) on consecutive deliveries to derail the tourists’ chase.

Things started well for England when a sublime piece of fielding from Chris Jordan, off his own bowling, saw India captain Virat Kohli run out for just two. “Mishy bowled well in the last match as well, looking at him I get the confidence to toss the ball up”. “He has a lot of skill and he has the character as well”, Kohli said of his wily spinner who played just his sixth T20 global.

India vs England live streaming will be telecasted on Star Sports 1 TV Channel. “We committed a cardinal sin of losing two “in” players in one over”, said Morgan.

“It was a attractive wicket to bat on, very small boundary, and altitude as well”.

“We only had one century in the ODIs, a lot of 60s and 70s but we to go on and get hundreds and we need players scoring 70 and 80 in big chases like that in T20 cricket”.

But the Indian board stuck by their man and he was due to stand in today’s decider until telling Pycroft he wanted to move aside – though he was still involved as the TV umpire. It is unfortunate that his body can not yet stand up to playing more than the shortest format because his pace and variations would be thoroughly useful in 50-over cricket where England’s attack struggled on the batter friendly pitches in India.

England arrived at their final T20 of the series against India with the scores tied at 1-1 and a chance to salvage some pride from a dismal tour.

“It’s a great series win for us, I’m more happy about that”. Roy in the company of the impressive Joe Root took England past the fifty-run mark in six overs and the visitors were very much in the game. “We haven’t produced a batting performance as bad as that in two, or two and a half years. Since it is a small ground, the batsman try to play their shots, I plan according to that”, he said.