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New Delhi. After Ravindra Jadeja’s brilliant batting, the Indian team defeated England by 49 runs in the second T20 match of the series, thanks to their bowlers. In this match played on Saturday at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham, Team India lost the toss and went to bat first. India scored 170 for 8 in 20 overs thanks to Jadeja’s unbeaten knock of 46 runs. After this the English team was all out after scoring 121 runs in 17 overs. India thus took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match series. The third and final T20 match of the series will be played on Sunday, July 10.
All-rounder Ravindra Jadeja scored an unbeaten 46 off 29 balls with the help of 5 fours. Veteran pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 3 wickets. Returning pacer Jasprit Bumrah and spinner Yuzvendra Chahal got 2-2 wickets in the team. Harshal Patel and Hardik Pandya also achieved 1-1 success.
Chasing the target of 171 runs, the England team lost wickets at regular intervals. He was shocked by Bhuvneshwar Kumar on the very first ball of the innings and sent Jason Roy (0) to the pavilion. After this, in his next over, he got captain Jos Buttler (4) caught by Pant behind the wicket. However, a review had to be taken on this which was successful.
Then Jasprit Bumrah bowled Liam Livingstone and made the host team 27 runs for 3 wickets. Livingstone scored 15 runs in 9 balls with the help of 3 fours. Then Harry Brooke (8) was run by Yuzvendra Chahal on the fourth ball of his first (7th innings) over. He was caught by Suryakumar Yadav. Chahal dismissed David Malan (19) on the very first ball of his next (10th innings) over to reduce England’s score to 55 for 5.
David Malan scored 19 runs in 25 balls with the help of 2 fours. Jasprit Bumrah showed the way to the pavilion by getting Sam Karen (2) caught by Hardik Pandya on the second ball of his third (11th innings) over. England had lost their 6 wickets for just 60 runs.
2 wickets fell in the 15th over of Hardik Pandya’s innings. He took the crucial wicket of Moeen Ali (35) on the second ball, which was caught by Rohit Sharma. Moin hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in 21 balls. Chris Jordan (1) was run out on the next ball. Richard Gleason (2) was caught by Bhuvneshwar at the hands of Virat Kohli. Harshal Patel ended England’s innings by bowling Matthew Parkinson (0) on the last ball of the 17th over of the innings.
Earlier, 34-year-old pacer Richard Gleason, who was debuting, took the wickets of captain Rohit Sharma, former captain Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant within 4 balls. However, on the basis of aggressive batting in the last overs of all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, Team India scored 170 runs for 8 wickets.
For England, experienced Chris Jordan took 4 for 27 but the 34-year-old Gleason impressed more in his first international match. He gave only 15 runs in 4 overs and took 3 important wickets. Jadeja, who was returning to the team for India, scored 46 runs in an unbeaten innings of 29 balls studded with 5 fours.
Captain Rohit Sharma scored 31 runs in 20 balls with the help of 3 fours and 2 sixes and Rishabh Pant scored 26 runs in 15 balls with 4 fours and a six. Wicketkeeper Pant opened the innings for India along with captain Rohit. In the first over of the innings, David Malan dropped Rohit’s catch on the fourth ball of David Willey and the Indian captain sprinkled salt on the burn by hitting a six on the last ball of the over.
He again welcomed the bowler in the third over of the innings with a six, while Pant hit two fours in the same over. After this both hit fours against Moeen Ali. Gleason, who came to bowl in the fifth over, was also welcomed by Rohit with a four, but this bowler took the first wicket of his international career by getting the Indian captain caught by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.
Gleason thus broke the 49-run partnership of Rohit and Pant. Pant then hit a six and a four against Moin in the sixth over, taking India’s score to 61 for one in the powerplay. Gleason walks former captain Virat Kohli (1 run) and Pant off the first two balls of his next over. In this way he took 3 wickets in 4 balls.
Suryakumar Yadav and all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who scored a half-century in the previous match, batted after this, but after giving time to both the crease, in the 11th over, Chris Jordan returned to the pavilion after being dismissed. Suryakumar made 15 off 11 balls while Hardik scored 12 runs in 15 balls. Now India’s score became 5 wickets for 89 runs in 11 overs.
The Indian team was on the back foot after falling for two consecutive wickets, but Jadeja kept the team’s run-rate by hitting boundaries in between. He was getting good support from Dinesh Karthik but in the 16th over, Karthik was run out after scoring 12 runs in 17 balls. In this over of Livingstone, however, Jadeja and Harshal Patel hit 1-1 fours. Harshal (13) hit a six against Jordan in the 17th over but he caught Gleason on the next ball.
