The bowler who took the hat-trick was badly punished, Sanju Samson became 'Wild Fire' and washed away Gus Atkinson.

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Tezzbuzz|23-01-2025

Sanju Samson vs Gus Atkinson Video: The first match of the T20 series between India and England (IND vs ENG T20) was played on Wednesday, 22 January at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata where Team India defeated England by 7 wickets. Spread the dust by trampling on it. meanwhile Indian team India's opener batsman Sanju Samson also thrashed English bowler Gus Atkinson, who recently took a hat-trick in the Test, and scored 22 runs in the over.

This entire incident happened in the second over of the Indian team's innings. Gus Atkinson had come to bowl the first over of his quota where Sanju Samson decided to attack him. This wicketkeeper batsman showed aggression from the very first ball of Atkinson and scored 22 runs in the entire over, hitting 4 fours and 1 six. You can see this 'wild fire' style of Sanju in the video below which has been shared by BCCI itself from its official X account.

It is noteworthy that in this match, Sanju scored 26 runs in 20 balls, hitting 4 fours and 1 six. Not only this, before this he also took a catch, a stump and a run out behind the wicket during the English team's innings. Also know that not only Sanju, but his teammate Abhishek Sharma also batted stormily and played an inning of 79 runs hitting 5 fours and 8 sixes in 34 balls.

Indian team won the match by 7 wickets, took 1-0 lead in the series

If we talk about this match, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav won the toss and decided to bat first at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata, after which the batting order of the English team got scattered like a deck of cards. England captain Jos Buttler played a brilliant inning of 68 runs on 44 balls, but the rest of the players could not stay on the field for long and were all out after scoring 132 runs in 20 overs.

After this, Team India achieved this target on the basis of Abhishek Sharma's brilliant innings of 79 runs on 34 balls in just 12.5 overs and won the match with 7 wickets and 43 balls.

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