India vs England highlights 1st T20: This was the first of the eleven matches scheduled across three formats.India vs England 1st T20, Ind vs ENG highlights: India captain Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to field first. England batting first in the 1st T20 in Manchester, was able to put on a score of 159 after 20 overs. They lost their 8 wickets. With Jos Buttler and Jason Roy opening for England were able to give a good start but Umesh Yadav came with a breakthrough and got the wicket of Jason Roy. England’s middle order did not perform well. Jos Buttler was the anchor point of their batting line up. Jos Buttler scored 69 runs off 46 balls. After Kuldeep Yadav took the wicket of Jos Buttler’s wicket, run rate of England came slashing down. India performed well with the ball as well as with the bat. Kuldeep Yadav got 5 wicket haul, while Umesh Yadav got two wickets, and Pandya got 1. With the bat, K L Rahul scored a well deserved century steering India towards an easy win. K L Rahul scored 101 runs off just 54 balls. With astonishing batting of K L Rahul and mesmerising bowling of Kuldeep Yadav, India won by 8 wickets and Kuldeep Yadav got the award of Man of the match after taking 5 wickets.
England who had to bat first chose to play the playing eleven from their last match against Australia. As for India, they have included Suresh Raina over Dinesh Karthik and Umesh Yadav will also play with Jasprit Bumrah ruled out due to injury. The first match of the eleven across three formats will be played at Old Trafford on Tuesday night with the next two games to be played in Cardiff and Bristol. Unlike the two Dublin games, the Indian team is likely to face tough competition from England who have been merciless in the recent past (ask Australia).
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Regardless of the result, the series will be a treat for the audience who will get to see probably the two best limited-overs line-ups in action. Both units have a destructive set of batsmen, top-quality fast-bowlers and match-winning spinners. England, however, will miss the services of the injured pair Ben Stokes and Tom Curran and the rested Mark Wood, all three of whom played in this season’s IPL.
Highlights
Rohit Sharma out: Big relief for England
Adil Rashid brings a big breakthrough for England. Rohit out for 32 runs.
No stopping K L Rahul in Manchester
K L Rahul hitting the ball out of the boundary for six again with a perfectly timed shot. K L Rahul showing batting masterclass, hitting yet another boundary cruising with a strike rate of 220.54. Fantastic piece of batting K L Rahul, hitting a four through onside and then hitting a six through on side Reducing the required run rate for India below 5.
100 comes up for India
Rahul hitting a brilliant four with a reverse sweep and then in the next ball using the crease very well hits a huge straight six bringing India's 100 in 10th over. India cruising through with a run rate of 10.00 per over.
50 up for K L Rahul
Rahul Rohit combination working well for India. K L Rahul got 50 runs on board after hitting the ball with a perfectly timed late cut.
Plunkett to Rahul, FOUR runs
Beautifully played by K L Rahul for four runs. He knew where the fielders were and hit the short ball for four runs brings India's 50.
1st inning over
Last over was bowled well by Bhuvi Kumar giving only 8 runs. India needs 160 runs off 12o balls to win the 1st T20 against England.
Five for Kuldeep Yadav
K L Rahul missing the catch Jos Buttler in the 2nd ball, was caught by Virat Kohli in the 4th ball of Kuldeep's last spell gets 5 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav 24-5 in just 4 overs.
Hardik Pandya in action
After Moeen Ali hitting the ball hard for FOUR runs, Pandya recovered well. Pandya adjusting the line and length confused Moeen and Ali was caught by Suresh Raina.
Kuldeep Yadav: Threat for England
Kuldeep Yadav's brilliant bowling has turned the match completely. Yadav struck thrice in his over. E Morgan misinterpreting the ball gets caught by Virat Kohli. J Bairstow and J Root, not able to read Kuldeep's googlies, gets stumped by Dhoni and went back pavilion without scoring any run.
Kuldeep's first wicket of the match
Kuldeep to Hales, not able to judge the ball, Hales misinterpret it and is bowled by Kuldeep.
Buttler's back to back boundaries
Buttler with two fours and a six gets his half-century. Buttler on 57 in just 31 balls.
Yadav gets the breakthrough
Brilliant bowling by Umesh Yadav gets India their 1st wicket. Jason Roy out for 30 runs.
With astonishing batting f K L Rahul and mesmerising bowling of Kuldeep Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav gets the award of Man of the match after taking 5 wickets.
Rahul with his century, kuldeep's 5 wicket haul and Virat Kohli finishing in style with a six, dominated today's game. India win by 8 wickets and lead the series 1-0.
This was seventh consecutive win for India in T20I.
K L Rahul's deserved this century. His aggressive batting, perfect fours, sublime form, a phenomenon batting performance led to his century.
K L rahul hitting a boundary on Willey's bowling, gets to the mark of 98, just 2 runs short for his century.
Virat Kohli coming out to bat at number 4, becomes first Indian player to score 2000 T20I runs. He is now the fourth highest run-scorer in the format behind the New Zealand duo of Martin Guptill (2271 runs) and Brendon McCullum (2140).
Decision of the umpire stands as confirmed by the Third Umpire, K L Rahul to continue striking the ball out of the field. England's review unsuccesfull.
England in a desperate attempt to take the wicket of K L Rahul, takes a review to go against umpire's decision.
Adil Rashid brings a big breakthrough for England. Rohit out for 32 runs.
Eoin Morgan looking confused, looking for alternative bowling options after bowlers getting hammered by Rohit Sharma and K L Rahul.
K L Rahul hitting the ball out of the boundary for six again with a perfectly timed shot. K L Rahul showing batting masterclass, hitting yet another boundary cruising with a strike rate of 220.54. Fantastic piece of batting K L Rahul, hitting a four through onside and then hitting a six through on side Reducing the required run rate for India below 5.
Rahul hitting a brilliant four with a reverse sweep and then in the next ball using the crease very well hits a huge straight six bringing India's 100 in 10th over. India cruising through with a run rate of 10.00 per over.
Rahul Rohit combination working well for India. K L Rahul got 50 runs on board after hitting the ball with a perfectly timed late cut.
Adil Rashid bowling the bad line and length, gets struck by Rohit Sharma for a huge 6.
K L Rahul showing his in-form batting scored back to back to boundaries on Moeen Ali's first over. First hitting beautifully for four and then though mistimed his shot, he was able to clear Jordon for six.
Adil Rashid into the attack was able to control runs but not for long after Rohit Sharma scored a boundary at the last ball of his over.
Beautifully played by K L Rahul for four runs. He knew where the fielders were and hit the short ball for four runs brings India's 50.
Jordan balling a slower ball confuses Rohit Sharma, hits back of his bat and saves him from getting out. But Rohit Sharma recovering well in the next ball scores another boundary of the over.
Another boundary this time from Rohit's bat. Both the batsmen putting pressure on England by scoring back to back boundaries.
Rahul hitting with a beautiful flick scores the first boundary and then with a beautiful cut shot gets him another four.
K L Rahul with brilliant orthodox shot hits an outstanding boundary.
Rahul looking for another boundary is stopped by Willey's brilliant fielding.
Beatiful shot by K L Rahul and with perfect timing strikes a six.
India loses their first wicket. Dhawan wanting to strike the ball hard mistimes the shot, Willey taking advantage, takes the wicket of Shikhar Dhawan.
India to open witha left-right combination of Rohit sharma and Shikhar Dhawan.
Willey to Dhawan, Thick edge goes for four. India starts their inning with a boundary.
Last over was bowled well by Bhuvi Kumar giving only 8 runs. India needs 160 runs off 12o balls to win the 1st T20 against England.
Indian bowler has performed well in this match. Will India get England all out in this last over of 1st inning?
Indian bowlers have been proving themselves continuously in this match. After Kuldeep Yadav getting 5 wickets, now its turn of Umesh Yadav to strike. Umesh Yadav gets his 2nd wicket by an outstanding ball to Chris Jordan gets him out for 0.
K L Rahul missing the catch Jos Buttler in the 2nd ball, was caught by Virat Kohli in the 4th ball of Kuldeep's last spell gets 5 wickets. Kuldeep Yadav 24-5 in just 4 overs.
Willey hitting a six over fine leg on the first ball of Kumar's over, struck twice for two boundaries. Kumar in pressure, giving 20 runs in his spell, brings some relief to England.
After Moeen Ali hitting the ball hard for FOUR runs, Pandya recovered well. Pandya adjusting the line and length confused Moeen and Ali was caught by Suresh Raina.
Kuldeep Yadav's brilliant bowling has turned the match completely. Yadav struck thrice in his over. E Morgan misinterpreting the ball gets caught by Virat Kohli. J Bairstow and J Root, not able to read Kuldeep's googlies, gets stumped by Dhoni and went back pavilion without scoring any run.
Kuldeep to Hales, not able to judge the ball, Hales misinterpret it and is bowled by Kuldeep.
Buttler with two fours and a six gets his half-century. Buttler on 57 in just 31 balls.
Buttler striking Kuldeep's first ball of the over out of the boundary, getting four runs more.
A brilliant reverse sweep by Jos Buttler adds four more runs to his run tally. Buttler has score 5 boundaries and is six and is playing with a strike rate of 176.19.
Buttler quick on his feet picks up full toss and converted it into four runs.
Brilliant bowling by Umesh Yadav gets India their 1st wicket. Jason Roy out for 30 runs.
Jaso Roy's thick outside edge over the short third man for the boundary. Slower ball again, this one short of a length outside off. Roy swipes hard at it and is rewarded for his intent.
When Roy was playing for Delhi, RCB captain was feeding him wrist spin of Chahal and he struggled immensely, now having the same guy in the team and not putting him against Roy first up doesn't make sense to me