The England national cricket team led by Jos Buttler participated in the National Cricket Cricket team of Suryakumar Yadav, in the fourth T20i of the five game series on Friday, January 31.
Jos Buttler’s team in England presented a big fight in the match, but lost by 15 points at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. With this, they also lost the T20I series.
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England faces defeat in an exciting match
For the first time in the series, Jos Buttler won the draw and England played the first in the match. They took an exceptional start, reducing the hosts to 12/3.
They chose two other quick counters to reduce India to 79/5, but after that, they were taken to the cleaners by Hhelik Pandya and Shivam Dube. Finally, they stopped India at 181/9.
Chasing the target, Harry Brook and Ben Duckett played explosive sleeves. However, the poor performance of the rest of the strikers meant that they were overthrown for 166 in 19.4 Overs.
We should have won the game – Jos Buttler
Speaking during the post-match presentation, Jos Buttler praised his players for starting well in the match, but was frustrated after finding himself on the losing side.
“We started brilliantly, taking counters in the power game and we were in a good position at the end of the shot power game. We should have won the game,” said Jos Buttler.
Buttler added that Drop Shivam Dube was the great reason for their defeat when the versatile criticized fifty. He said:
“We did very good things in the game. We dropped Dube First Ball and he went to play very good sleeves. With the bat, we were in a fantastic position and lost a few key counters.”
How did England work in the previous T20i vs India?
England came out victorious by 26 points in the third T20i against India in Rajkot. Beating first, visitors displayed a total of 171/9 in their 20 Overs, which proved to be enough to win the match.
Their sleeves started on a bad note because Phil Salt (5) was rejected early. However, Ben Duckett broke a QuickFire 51 out of 28 bullets, including 7 limits and 2 maximums. Jos Buttler contributed to a precious 24, before being dismissed by Varun Chakravarthy.
Liam Livingstone (43) provided fireworks, breaking 1 four and 5 six, but was rejected by Pandya while trying to erase the border for a long time. The lower order of England has shown a good fight and contributions from Adil Rashid (10 *) and Mark Wood (10 *) helped the team reach 171/9.
During the pursuit of the race, the Indian strike order had trouble starting. England’s quasseurs have struck at key moments, reducing India to 31/2 in the first 4 Overs.
Adil Rashid rejected Tilak Varma, and Jamie Overton took the counters of Hhelik Pandya, Washington Sundar and Mohammed Shami. The key counters falling at regular intervals, India has never looked in control and finished with a total of 145/9.
