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IND vs ENG: England beat India by 26 runs in Rajkot

England defeated Team India in the T20 match played in Rajkot. With this, England was successful in returning to the series. Now the series has come to 1-2. In this match, England’s opener Ben Duckett played a brilliant innings. In bowling, Jofra Archer and Jamie Overton and Adil Rashid bowled well.

The third match of the 5-match T20 series between India and England was played at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Indian batting was very weak in this match, due to which the England team was able to make a comeback in the series.

England had to face defeat in the first two matches of the series. But Rajkot won the match to bring the series to 1-2. England bowled very well in this match and Indian batsmen were seen struggling for runs.

Team India won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match. The England team managed to score a big score by batting first. Opener Ben Duckett scored 51 runs in 28 balls. While Liam Livingston also played a stormy innings of 43 runs in 24 balls.

Varun Chakravarthy was the most successful bowler for India. Varun Chakravarthy gave away only 24 runs in his 4 over spell with an economy of 6.00 and made 5 batsmen his victims. Hardik Pandya was also successful in dismissing 2 batsmen. Apart from this, Ravi Bishnoi and Axar Patel achieved 1-1 success.

Chasing a target of 172 runs, the Indian team’s batting was very poor. Opener Sanju Samson could only score 3 runs in 6 balls. Along with this, Abhishek Sharma also returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs in 14 balls. Captain Suryakumar Yadav could only reach 14 runs this time too.

Tilak Verma scored 18 runs in 14 balls. Hardik Pandya also lost his wicket after scoring 40 runs in 35 balls. Washington Sundar also scored 6 runs and Axar Patel only scored 5 runs. Due to which the Indian team could only score 145 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and had to face defeat by 26 runs.

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