Team Chabuk-Sports Desk: The fiery innings played in the last overs of Indian captain Virat Kohli (77 *) could not save the team from defeat. England won by 8 wickets with ten balls remaining in the third T20 with the help of the 11th half century innings of opener Jose Butler (83 *). Bairstow remained unbeaten on 40 runs. With this, England has made a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
Kohli and Hardik (17) helped to score 156 runs for the loss of six wickets. While chasing the target, England lost the wicket of Jason Roy (09) but Roy and Dawid Malan (18) shared 58 runs for the second wicket. In six overs of the powerplay, the visitors scored 57 runs for the loss of one wicket. Indian spinner Chahal did take a wicket but also give 25 runs in the first two overs. Butler completed his half century off 26 balls. Malan was sent to the pavilion by Washington Sundar. Kohli also gave life to Butler on Chahal’s ball for 76 runs when he could not take a catch. Butler and Bairstow shared an unbroken 77-run stand for the third wicket.
Kohli equals Kane
Virat Kohli equaled New Zealand captain Kane Williamson by scoring his 11th half century as captain.
Bad start again in Power play
England captain Eoin Morgan decided to bowl first after winning the toss. The Indian team did not start as expected. Returning in this match, England fast bowler Mark Wood (3/31) did not allow the Indian top order to freeze. Lokesh Rahul could not even open an account in the second match in a row.
24 runs for three wickets
In this match, Rohit Sharma came back but he too could only play an innings of 15 runs off 17 balls. The wickets of both Rahul and Rohit went to Wood. Ishan Kishan, who made his debut in the last match and scored a half-century, was ranked third in this match but could only play an innings of four runs. In a fiery shot, the ball went high in the air and wicketkeeper Butler ran backwards to catch an easy catch. In the powerplay, the Indian team could only make 24 runs for three wickets. In the first T20 also, the Indian team had scored 22 runs for three wickets.
Pant Runout
Captain Virat and Rishabh Pant (25) shared 40 runs for the fourth wicket. It seemed that these two batsmen would not only be able to increase the run rate but India would also be able to score big but Pant was run out in the 12th over. Wood took his third wicket by catching Shreyas Iyer (09) at the hands of Malan. India had scored 87 runs for 5 wickets in 15 overs. At that time, it did not seem that the Indian team would be able to cross the figure of 150.
Kohli rained down in death overs
Kohli and Hardik shared a good partnership in the last five overs. Kohli changed the batting gear from Archer’s 16th over and scored 13 runs with the help of a four and a six. In the next over, the Indian captain did not spare Jordan either. 14 runs came in this over in which he hit a six on deep square and completed his 27th half century by hitting a four on the last ball. In Wood’s next over, Kohli hit two sixes. 69 runs came in the last five overs. Hardik, who hit a six on the first ball of the last over, was caught out by Archer on the last ball.
Third best performance in the last five overs
In the last five overs, Kohli scored 49 off 20 balls which is the third best performance of an Indian batsman. Yuvraj had scored 58 off 16 balls against England in 2007. Kohli himself had scored 49 off 20 balls against the West Indies in 2016 and collected 49 off 17 balls in this match.
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