After three quality matches, the caravan will move to Pune, where India will take on England in the fourth T20I, the series’ penultimate. England finally won their first game of the tour in the third T20I to keep the series alive.
Batting first, they scored 171/9 in their allotted 20 overs, with Ben Duckett top-scoring 51 runs. Liam Livingstone (43) and Jos Buttler (24) also played useful hands in propelling England to a good first-innings score despite tumbling wickets.
The English bowlers were brilliant, hitting the right lines and lengths during the chase. They restricted India to a mere 145/9 and won the contest by 26 runs.
India: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wk), Suryakumar Yadav (c), Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Varun Chakravarthy
England: Phil Salt (wk), Ben Duckett, Jos Buttler (c), Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Jamie Overton, Brydon Carse, Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood
The average first-innings score in Pune has been 171, with pacers snaring 71.88% of wickets here. Expect another true batting deck, with the ball coming nicely on the willow. The team winning the toss might elect to field first, with a total of around 170 being a fighting one.
A temperature of around 29°C, with partly cloudy, is forecast.
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India will again start as favourites, but England showed their capabilities in the last game. England’s batting still looks shaky, and with Varun and Arshdeep in the side, India will fancy their chances of restricting them again. Expect India to win the game and seal the series.
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