Rahul Tiwari
khelja|29-01-2025
The third match of the 5 -match T20 series between India and England was played at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Indian batting was very bad in this match, due to which England team was in return to the series. England had to face defeat in the first two matches of the series. But by winning the Rajkot match, he has brought the series to 1-2. There was a lot of affordable bowling in this match from England and the Indian batsmen were seen battling for the runs.
Team India won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. In such a situation, the England team came out to bat first. She managed to hit a big score on the board in this match. Opener Ben Docket played the biggest innings for his team in this match. He scored 51 runs off 28 balls, including 7 fours and 2 sixes. Liam Livingston also played a stormy innings of 43 runs off 24 balls. During this, Liam Livingston hit 1 four and 5 sixes. At the same time, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood also contributed to 10-10 runs.
On the other hand, Varun Chakraborty was the most successful bowler from India. Varun Chakraborty gave only 24 runs from the economy of 6.00 in his 4 -over spell in this match and made 5 batsmen his victim. Hardik Pandya also managed to dismiss 2 batsmen. Apart from these, Ravi Bishnoi and Akshar Patel achieved 1-1 success.
The Indian team got very poor batting to chase the target of 172 runs. Opener Sanju Samson could only score 3 runs off 6 balls. At the same time, Abhishek Sharma also returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs off 14 balls. Captain Suryakumar Yadav could reach 14 runs this time too. On the other hand, Tilak Verma scored 18 runs off 14 balls. Hardik Pandya also lost his wicket by scoring 40 runs off 35 balls. Washington Sundar also scored 6 runs and Akshar Patel scored 5 runs. Due to which the Indian team could score 145 runs at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs and lost by 26 runs.