The Men in blues performed brilliantly in the first T20 played between India and England, defeating the hosts by 50 runs. This is the visitor’s biggest win in T20 in terms of runs on English soil. Earlier, in the 2009 World Cup played here in England, team India had defeated Bangladesh by 25 runs. The captain of India won the toss and opt batting first in the match. Visitors scored 198 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, the host could only manage 148 runs in 19.3 overs.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya took the most wickets for India. Hardik took 4 wickets for 33 runs. Similarly, he also scored 51 runs with his bat. Pandya becomes the first player to take 4 wickets scoring a half-century simultaneously in a match for India. He was also awarded the man of the match for brilliant all-around performance.
IND vs ENG 1st T20: Match Review
Hardik Pandya sent two England batters to the pavilion in the same over during the English innings. On the second ball of the 5th over, he clean bowled David Malan and also got Liam Livingstone’s wicket. Livingston was caught by Dinesh Karthik on the last ball of the over. After this, in the 7th over, Pandya gave another blow to the English team and also sent Jason Roy to the pavilion. It was also a good debut for Arshdeep Singh.
Surya Kumar Yadav scored 39 runs in 19 balls during India’s innings. At the same time, Deepak Hooda, bated at number 3, scored 33 runs in just 17 balls. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes came off his bat in his inning.
The way Hooda was playing, it felt that he would play a big inning again, but Tymal Mills got him caught by Chris Jordan and succeeded to get his wicket.