India easily defeated England in the Kolkata T20 match. For India, opener Abhishek Sharma played a stormy innings of 79 runs in 34 balls. He hit 5 fours and 8 sixes in his innings. But despite this stormy innings, Abhishek did not get the Player of the Match award,
Why did Abhishek Sharma not become the Player of the Match!
Varun Chakravarthy was awarded the Player of the Match award in the first T20 match. Because Varun Chakravarthy took 3 wickets for 23 runs in 4 overs. And along with this, Varun took the important wickets of England captain Jos Buttler as well as Harry Brook and Liam Livingstone. Therefore, Varun Chakravarthy was preferred over Abhishek Sharma for the Player of the Match.
At the same time, due to Varun Chakravarthy’s deadly bowling, the England team could score only 132 runs in 20 overs. In this way Varun Chakravarthy prevented England from scoring a big score.
