Hardik Pandya is known for his hard-hitting and aggressive batting. The Indian all-rounder again seemed in his old aggressive batting style and smashed his Maiden T20I fifty in today’s match against England. He scored 51 runs off 33 balls which includes 6 fours and 1 six with a strike rate of 154.55. earlier his highest score was 46 in T-20i against South Africa. Subsequently, the Indian opener Rohit Sharma gave a decent start, but unfortunately, Rohit Sharma got caught by wicket-keeper Jos Buttler against Moeen Ali by scoring 24 runs in 14 balls by hitting 5 boundaries. On another hand, Ishan Kishan had a slow start and he didn’t contribute much and got dismissed by Moeen Ali by scoring just 8 runs in 10 balls.
Later, Deepak Hooda and Surya Kumar Yadav took responsibility and stabilized the scored board. Both were looking in amazing form and scored 33 runs off 17 balls and 39 runs off 19 balls each. Later, Hardik Pandya delivers his amazing batting performance and knocked his Maiden Fifty but unfortunately due constant fall of wickets like Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Dinesh Karthik, and Harshal Patel. The predicted total was 220 or 225 but due to the fall of constant wickets in ends over Indian side managed to score 198 runs on board.
Chris Jordan and Moeen Ali took 2 wickets each. While Reece Topley, Tymal Mills, and Matthew Parkinson took 1 wicket each. The English bowlers pulled back well in the death overs to halt India to a total below 200. England conceded just 41 runs in the last 4 overs while picking up 4 wickets.
