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Ind vs Eng 3rd T20 Highlights: England Beat India by 26 Runs

Ind vs Eng 3rd T20

Ind vs Eng 3rd T20 Highlights: The Indian cricket team lost by 26 runs in the third T20 match against England on Tuesday. In the match played in Rajkot, Team India set a target of 172 runs from England, but the Indian batters managed 145 runs on 9 wickets in 20 overs. India lost 4 wickets on 68 runs in 8 overs. Here, the run rate was very slow, the team managed only 22 runs in the next 6 overs, which was the biggest reason for the defeat. Hardik Pandya scored 40 runs in 35 balls, Washington Sundar scored 6 runs in 15 balls and Akshar Patel scored 15 runs in 16 balls. English opener Ben Duckett (51 runs) made his fifty.

England has saved the series by winning the third T20. India is still ahead by 2-1. The fourth match will be played in Pune on 31 January. India won the first and second T20 by bowling first.

Maths highlights

Ind vs Eng 3rd T20

After winning the toss, Team India came to bowl first and the spinners bowled brilliantly. Especially mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty. He sent English captain Jos Buttler to the pavilion in the second over of his spell and broke his fifty partnership with Ben Duckett.

Varun ended his spell by conceding just 24 runs and taking 5 wickets. Due to his bowling, England had at one time lost 8 wickets for 127 runs, but due to more runs being scored in the last overs, the score reached 171.

England’s fast bowlers took 3 wickets in the powerplay, but they were also beaten. Adil Rashid bowled tightly in the middle overs, but he got excellent support from Jamie Overton at the other end. Overton gave only 15 runs in 3 overs of the first spell and also sent Washington Sundar to the pavilion. Then in the 19th over, England won by taking the wickets of Hardik Pandya and Mohammed Shami.

Turning point of the match

Ind vs Eng 3rd T20

Facing a target of 172, India started fast but lost 3 wickets in the powerplay. Tilak Verma was also out in the 8th over, he was bowled by Adil Rashid on a brilliant leg spin ball. This proved to be the turning point of the match. Because from here the team could score only 22 runs in the next 6 overs. Adil Rashid gave away just 15 runs in 4 overs. Jamie Overton also supported him well at the other end.

Washington Sundar: Sundar came to bat after 4 wickets fell in 8 overs. He could score only 5 runs in 16 balls, due to which the pressure increased on the other batsmen.

Sanju Samson: Wicketkeeper batsman Samson flopped for the third consecutive T20. Every time Jofra Archer sent him back to the pavilion by bowling bouncers. This time Samson could score only 3 runs.

Hardik Pandya: After taking 2 wickets with bowling, Hardik could not do anything special with batting. He batted till the 19th over but could score only 40 runs in 35 balls.

Match report

IND vs ENG 1st T20 Highlights

The English team, who came to bat first after losing the toss, got a good start. The team lost only 1 wicket for 83 runs. From here Varun Chakraborty took 5 wickets, after which the score became 127/8. Liam Livingston then played an inning of 43 runs, but he too was out on the team score of 147 runs.

From England again Adil Rashid and Mark Wood batted till the last ball. Both scored 10-10 runs and made a partnership of 24 runs. With the partnership of both, England scored 171 runs. This partnership ultimately became the major reason for victory.

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