Indian Cricket Team Updates

This was the eighth Twenty20 International between these two sides. ( Also Read:  Only T20I: England v India, Birmingham ) Jason Roy, Ambati Rayudu and Karn Sharma were making their T20I debut. A total of 70 and 49 players have now represented England and India in T20Is respectively. MS Dhoni was playing his 50th Twenty20 International match. He became first Indian to do so. By an odd coincidence his counterpart Eoin Morgan was also playing his 50th match. R Ashwin conceded 17 runs in first over of England innings – most expensive opening over of the match by an Indian bowler. The previous record was of 13 runs. Eoin Morgan (71) became first England captain to score a fifty in T20 Internationals since November 2009 when Paul Collingwood made 57 against South Africa at Johannesburg. Morgan scored 15 runs off his first 15 balls (Strike-rate 100.00). Of his next 16 balls he scored 56 (strike-rate 350.00). Ajinkya Rahane became first Indian and only the fifth player to take four c...

Chasing 181 runs, India lost the only T20I of the tour against England by three runs at Edgbaston. A blistering 31-ball 71 by the England T20I captain Eoin Morgan helped the hosts to a competitive total after opting to bat first. This after Alex Hales had got England off to a good start with a quick-fire 40. In a late flourish, the hosts accumulated 81 runs off the last five overs to set the visitors a stiff target.  ( Also Read:  Stats Highlights: Only T20I - England v India, Birmingham ) Virat Kohli (66 off 41) then kept India in reckoning with two crucial partnerships with Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Raina. But the runs conceded in the last quarter of the England innings and the tight bowling by the host’s bowlers kept the pressure on India. Although MS Dhoni made a match of it as he took India within sniffing distance of the target, he couldn’t take the team across the line in the nerve-wracking last over.  Earlier, Ravichandran Ashwin opened the bowling after Engla...