Chahal takes 6 wickets for 25 for India to win by 75 runs and series 2-1
England tour of India, 3rd T20I: India v England at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, Feb 1, 2017
England v India
India 202/6 (20/20 ov) SK Raina 63 off 45, 2 fours, 5 sixes, MS Dhoni 56 off 36, 5 fours, 2 sixes, Yuvraj Singh 27 off 10, 1 four, 3 sixes, TS Mills 32/1, CJ Jordan 56/1, LE Plunkett 22/1, BA Stokes 32/1
England 127 (16.3/20 ov) JJ Roy 32 off 23, 4 fours, 1 six, JE Root 42 off 37, 4 fours, 2 sixes, EJG Morgan 40 off 21, 2 fours, 3 sixes, YS Chahal 25/6, JJ Bumrah 14/3, A Mishra 23/1
England won the toss chose to field.
India won by 75 runs
India won the 3-match series 2-1
Although Eoin Morgan won the toss and chose to bowl first in the third and final T20 against India in Bangalore, and remove dangerman Virat Kohli cheaply England could not capitalise on that as India posted 202 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs.
MS Dhoni’s 56, took 76 T20Is to score his maiden T20I fifty. Suresh Raina had to wait from 2010 to score 63 after 38 innings. Yuvraj Singh scored 27 off 10, with 3 sixes and one four.
Eoin Morgan thought it’s a high scoring ground and good for chasing scores down, “as it is a huge game, a big final at a ground like this where there is no hiding place.”
England’s score at the end of the tenth over was 86, while India made only 78 runs at the same stage and both were 2 down at that point.
Morgan (40), Root (42) and Butler (0) were all dismissed between overs 13.3 and 14.2. a span of six deliveries without getting any run.
England was well placed at 119 for 2 in the 14th over as they chased 202 for 6. England’s batsman capitulated and lost their last 8 wickets for 8 runs in 19 balls, the second 8-wicket collapse in the history of International cricket. New Zealand had lost 8 for 5 runs in a test in 1946.
England collected five ducks in the innings. Yuzvendra Chahal recorded only the third six-wicket haul in the history of Twenty20 International cricket. Chahal’s figures have been bettered by Sri Lanka’s Ajantha Mendis in this format. England’s collapse is the second-worst in any international format behind New Zealand’s loss of eight test wickets for five runs against Australia 70 years ago.
India wrapped up a clean sweep of all three formats – following their 4-0 Test series win before Christmas and their high scoring 2-1 win in the ODI’s. England batsmen failed top read Chahal’s flight and variation proving England’s fallibility to spin that proved their undoing.