Friday, January 27, 2017

1st T20I : England beat India by 7 wickets and lead T20 series 1-0

England 148 for 3 (Morgan 51, Root 46*, Chahal 2-27) beat India 147 for 7 (Dhoni 36*, Raina 34,  Moeen 2-21) by seven wickets.

In the First T20I at Kanpur, England won the toss and  choose bowl first.  Virat and KL Rahul Opened the batting for India. Rahul  scored only 8 runs and  Skipper Virat Kolhi scored 29 runs with help of 4 fours.   


England Bowlers led by Moeen Ali's (2/21) and good supported by Jordan (1/27) and Pace Bowler Tymal Mills (1/27) executed their plan well. 

MS Dhoni Top Scored unbeaten 36 runs for India.  All rounder Raina scored 34 runs and other batsman are failed to score runs. India  scored only 147 runs in 20 overs with loss of 7 Wickets. 



In the end,  India might blame their middle-order problems for not posting a big enough total.  Middle-order  Batsman Yuvraj Singh, Pandya and Manish Pandey did n't score good enough.

  England Opener gave the explosive start and 36 runs from 3 overs.  Chahal  removed both opener in his first over. Then Eoin Morgan and Root added 83 runs for third wicket partnership.

England Captain Eoin Morgan fired 51 runs in 38 balls and Root scored unbeaten 46 to help to England chase the total.  

England  chased down 148 with 11 ball remaining and lost only 3 wickets.



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