Bumrah & Nehra's tight bowling powered India to defend small total and crush England by 5 runs in last balls finished match
2nd Twenty20 international match of 3 match series has been played between India and England at Nagpur today. Once again putting into bat first by England, India's most batsmen failed to stood in middle for long and managed to put average score of 144 runs in 20 overs. KL Rahul played well and conrtiuted 71 runs of 47 balls. MK Pandey made 30 runs for India. CJ Jordan took 3 wickets for 22 runs for England.
Following small target of 145 runs, England could not made batter start and lost both opening batsmen in hurry for 22 runs. Middle orders JE Root and BA Stokes played well and contributed well 38 runs each. In last few overs JJ Bumrah and A Nehra bowled well and gave India remarkable win by 5 runs in last ball finished match. This was the second lowest target that India has defended. India level 3 match series 1-1. JJ Bumrah declared man of the match for his superb last over spending just 2 runs and 2 wickets to present India well needed win. He ended with 4-0-20-2.
Man of the match :- JJ Bumrah (India) |
Series - 3-match series level 1-1 |
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