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India’s whitewash in T20I for the first time in England, pride of 4 years of dominance broken, number 1 position snatched away in ICC rankings

By Samira Vishwas

IND vs ENG T20I: The Indian team has faced a shameful defeat in the T20I series against England. England has won the series of 5 T20I matches by 4-0. In this way, for the first time, Team India has faced a clean sweep in a bilateral T20 series on English soil. Not only this, with this defeat India’s four-year dominance in the ICC T20 rankings also ended. By defeating India in this series, the England team has now reached the top in the ICC T20 rankings. In the fifth T20 match, England defeated India by 56 runs. In response to the 258 runs given by England, the Indian team could score only 201 runs for 8 wickets. Shreyas Iyer’s captaincy has had a very bad start.

Abhishek returned early to the pavilion, Sanju failed to play a big innings

Team India, which set out to chase the target of 258 runs given by England, had a bad start. Jofra Archer dismissed opener Abhishek Sharma in the third over. Abhishek walked away after scoring 3 runs on 5 balls. After this, Sanju Samson along with Ishan Kishan made a partnership of 30 runs for the second wicket. Sanju looked in good form today, but he was not successful in playing big innings. He was led by Sam Curran. Sanju scored 27 runs in 14 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Half century partnership between Ishan Kishan and captain Shreyas

After this Ishan Kishan and captain Shreyas Iyer took charge. Both were batting well, but then Liam Dawson sent Iyer to the pavilion. Iyer played an innings of 28 runs in 16 balls with the help of 4 fours. There was a partnership of 55 runs for the third wicket between Iyer and Ishan.

Ishan Kishan hits fifty

After this, Ishan Kishan became the victim of Adil Rashid after scoring a half-century. He scored 56 runs in 35 balls, which included 7 fours and 2 sixes. After this, India got the fifth blow in the form of Shivam Dubey. Sam Curran sent him to the pavilion. Dubey scored 14 runs in 10 balls with the help of 2 fours. In this way, half the Indian team returned to the pavilion on the score of 162 runs. Then Tilak Verma also got out after scoring a half-century. He played an inning of 53 runs in 25 balls, which included 3 fours and 4 sixes. After this, Team India could score only 201 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.

England had scored the highest T20I score against India

In this match against India, after losing the toss and batting first, England scored 257 runs for just 3 wickets. There was a record partnership of 233 runs between Jos Buttler and Harry Brook. Butler played an inning of 131 runs in 64 balls, which included 12 fours and 8 sixes. Whereas captain Harry Brook played an unbeaten inning of 95 runs in 45 balls. During this, 4 fours and 8 sixes came from his bat. All the bowlers from India gave away a lot of runs.

India’s clean sweep in T20I for the first time in England

For the first time, India has faced a clean sweep in T20 International in England. The first match of this series of 5 T20 matches was canceled due to rain. After this, England has badly defeated Team India in 4 consecutive T20 matches and has cleaned up the situation. At the same time, England has also snatched away the number-1 position of Team India in the ICC T20 rankings.

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