Match Details
Arya- At the halfway stage, India would have definitely backed themselves to chase this down, especially after what happened at the Oval not too long ago. However, the England fast bowlers had other ideas as they pegged the openers with some immaculate bowling in the first two deliveries. Back-to-back maidens surely put some pressure on Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. After a painstaking stay at the crease, Rohit was dismissed by Reece Topley with a full inswinging delivery. This is not the first time, Rohit has fallen to a similar sort of a delivery nor it will be his last.
Shikhar Dhawan tried to nudge one down the leg side but got a strangle down which was safely taken by Jos Buttler behind the stumps. Wickets kept tumbling on a regular basis as Rishabh Pant who was sent above Suryakumar Yadav lobbed a full toss straight down the throat of the substitute fielder Philip Salt stationed at midwicket. Virat Kohli struck three crisp drives off the frontfoot but again went feeling for a delivery well outside the off-stump and got an outside edge which was safely taken by Jos Buttler behind the stumps.
Suryakumar Yadav looked the most organised of the Indian batters and carried on from where he left in the T20I series. He struck some delightful strokes and got going. He looked like the only Indian batsman who has got a safe idea of the two-paced nature of the pitch. However, he chopped one back-of-a-length delivery a tad outside off straight onto his pads. India had a long tail and the duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya had to do the bulk of the scoring to get India anywhere close to the target.
Hardik Pandya batted sensibly but couldn't quite continue the good work. It was almost an after-thought to swipe a back of a length delivery from Moeen Ali and was holed out at deep midwicket. Mohammed Shami struck some lusty blows to begin his innings. He stitched a useful stand with Jadeja but the target was still a long way away. He scored 23 before getting bamboozled by a slower delivery from Topley and lobbed one straight to the mid-on fielder. The final nail in the coffin for India was when Liam Livingstone castled Ravindra Jadeja with his first delivery. In the end it was an easy victory for England. The last two wickets fell cheaply as well, with England romping home by 100 runs.