Hardik Pandya blasted his maiden Twenty20 worldwide half-century and took 4 wickets as India beat England by 50 runs in Southampton on Thursday.
India’s Hardik Pandya celebrates reaching his 50 in the course of the Twenty20 International cricket match between England and India at Ageas Bowl in Southampton on 7 July 2022. Picture: Daniel LEAL / AFP
SOUTHAMPTON – Hardik Pandya blasted his maiden Twenty20 worldwide half-century and took 4 wickets as India beat England by 50 runs in Southampton on Thursday.
In the opening sport of the three-match collection, Pandya powered to his 50 off 30 balls as India scored 198-8.
The 28-year-old hit six fours and one towering six, off Matt Parkinson, earlier than being dismissed for 51 in his forty third T20I innings
Pandya’s fireworks got here after Suryakumar Yadav (39) and Deepak Hooda (33) had set the tone with some flamboyant photographs.
Pandya tormented England with the ball as properly, taking 4-33 from his 4 overs as the hosts might solely handle 148 in their limp run-chase.
India captain Rohit Sharma, again in the aspect after recovering from Covid-19, was rewarded for his resolution to bat first as the vacationers gained a small measure of revenge for his or her beautiful Test loss to England earlier this week.
“It was a great performance from ball one. There was an intent shown by the batters,” Rohit mentioned.
“Hardik prepared himself wonderfully from the IPL. His bowling is something he wanted to do more of. He came in, bowled quick, and got rewards for his variation.
“The opening bowlers swung the ball properly which stopped England’s batters in the powerplay. We took it into consideration with the toss.”
England had routed India by seven wickets in the fifth Test as Ben Stokes’ side authored the highest Test run chase in their history.
That victory was England’s fourth in a row under Stokes and new red-ball coach Brendon McCullum, with their astonishingly successful start inspired by a daring commitment to aggressive strokeplay.
With the Test team on a well-earned break, Jos Buttler took charge of England for the first time since replacing Eoin Morgan as the country’s limited overs skipper.
‘INDIA WERE FANTASTIC’
Insisting England would be “actually aggressive and never afraid of failure”, Buttler is following the template laid out by Stokes and McCullum as he prepares for the T20 World Cup in October.
But Buttler perished for a golden duck, just five balls into England’s chase, when he was bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s inswinger.
“We’ve been outplayed right this moment. I assumed India bowled fantastically properly and we could not get again in the sport from that time,” Buttler said.
“It has in all probability swung for as lengthy as I can bear in mind in a T20 match. We wanted to hit it in the stands to cease it swinging. But credit score to India I assumed they had been improbable.”
Dawid Malan’s 21 from 14 balls featured 4 boundaries however Pandya bowled him after which dismissed Liam Livingstone to go away England wobbling on 29-3.
India’s swing bowling was an excessive amount of for England and Jason Roy had made solely 4 from 16 balls when he was eliminated by Pandya.
Harry Brook (28) and Moeen Alli, 36 from 20 balls, hammered their share of boundaries to briefly give England renewed hope.
India dropped six catches, however Yuzvendra Chahal delivered the knockout blows as the spinner dismissed each batsmen to place his aspect on the point of victory.
India’s T20 debutant Arshdeep Singh claimed his maiden worldwide wickets. The 23-year-old tempo bowler eliminated Reece Topley and Parkinson to place the seal on the guests’ dominant show.
India can clinch the collection at Edgbaston on Saturday earlier than the finale at Trent Bridge on Sunday.
At Southampton:
India 198-8, 20 overs (H Pandya 51) v England 148, 19.3 overs (H Pandya 4-33)
Result: India gained by 50 runs
