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T20 series: Team India’s miserable performance continues, England takes decisive lead with third consecutive win

By Samira Vishwas

Bristol, 10 July. Despite all the experiments and changes, the miserable performance of the Indian batsmen is continuing on the soil of England after Ireland. In this sequence, in the fourth T20 International match at the County Ground here on Thursday, Team India suffered a crushing defeat by nine wickets with 37 balls remaining and England took a decisive 3-0 lead in the five-match series with their third consecutive win.

England played its first multi-match bilateral against India T20I won the series

Interesting fact is that England has won its first multi-match bilateral T20I series against India. The first match played at Chester-le-Street was washed out by rain midway through. After that, England won the second match in Manchester by four wickets, while in Nottingham, India had to face the biggest defeat (125 runs) in its T20I history.

Fifth consecutive defeat of the last two world champions

It should be remembered that the two-time current World T20 champion India, who remained undefeated in 16 consecutive T20 series/tournaments, not only had to lose a match for the first time against Ireland last fortnight but also lost the T20 series 0-2. If seen this way, today he had to face his fifth consecutive defeat.

Despite Shreyas’ aggressive fifty, India could reach 7-158 runs.

Talking about the match, Shreyas Iyer won the toss for the fourth consecutive match and decided to bat first. Not only this, Shreyas also played an aggressive half-century innings (80 not out, 48 balls, five sixes, four fours). But except for his partnership of 53 runs in 43 balls with Shivam Dubey (22 runs, 23 balls, two fours), other batsmen could not show their strength and in front of Joffra Archer (2-20) and Josh Tong (2-36), who had divided seven wickets among themselves at the Trent Bridge Ground, the guests could reach 158 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs.

One-sided victory of British due to unbroken partnership of 146 runs between Salt and Harry

During the counter action, however, at the beginning of the third over, Jos Buttler (eight runs, eight balls, one six) became the victim of Arshdeep Singh, who was playing his 100th match. But after this, Phil Salt (59 not out, 42 balls, one six, nine fours) and ‘Player of the Match’ Harry Brook (79 not out, 35 balls, four sixes, eight fours) did not do any other damage. Didn’t let it happen. Both of them not only hit quick half-centuries, but with an unbroken partnership of 146 runs in just 70 balls, the hosts won by scoring 159 runs for one wicket in 13.5 overs.

Vaibhav failed to extend his innings for the third consecutive match

Before this, if we look at the Indian innings, 15-year-old teenage sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi (15 runs, 10 balls, one six, one four), who got the opportunity to make his debut in international cricket amidst the tremendous pressure on the team management, could not extend his innings despite the initial burst in the third consecutive match. Apart from him, fellow openers Abhishek Sharma (16 runs, 14 balls, two fours) and Ishan Kishan (4 runs) also returned soon (3-48).

score card

After this, hope was raised by the half-century partnership between Shreyas and Shivam Dubey. But Dubey was returned by Phil Jacques in the 14th over, then with sporadic support from Tilak Verma (11 runs, eight balls, one six) and Washington Sundar (five runs), Shreyas was able to take the team to 158 runs, which later proved to be insufficient.

Final match on July 11, India’s number one T20 ranking at stake

Now the fifth and final match will be played in Southampton on July 11. If India loses that match too, it will also lose ICC’s number one ranking to England. After the T20 series, both the teams will play a three-match One Day International series.

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