- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.4 Wood bounces over Rohit! This is why Mumbai Indians wanted him in the IPL last year as a replacement for Malinga. Rohit backs away outside leg, Wood follows the moving batsman with a lifter and cramps him on the pull/hook. Rohit can only flap it away as far as short fine leg, where Wood's partner-in-crime Archer takes a tumbling catch 20/22.3 Wood storms through the defences of Rahul. Fullish and nipping back in sharply after hitting the pitch, 146ks. Rahul aims leg side, his bat comes down at an awkward angle, and does so late. He is bowled through the gate for back-to-back ducks. His scores in this series: 1,0,0 7/15.2 Jordan now bounces out Kishan! Another fast-bowling masterclass from England. The pressure is relentless. Dug in short and holds its line outside off, Kishan aims to swat it away across the line but can only top-edge that swirls high in the air. Buttler, with the big gloves, runs back and smartly tracks it down 24/311.1 starts off with a short ball, rolls his fingers across it, Pant could be run out here. Yes, he's gone. He dishes out a full-length dive, but it caught on the third. Curran calmly collects the throw and takes the bails off. Pant ran so far across on the second and that works against him on the third. Cutter outside off, leans back, forces through the gap square on the off side - to the right of sweeper. Buttler didn't gather the throw cleanly, so that fumble coaxed Pant into seeking a third. Replays indicate that there was a little hesitation from Kohli on the third 64/414.3 Iyer was looking to ramp it over deep third man. He instead, slaps it squarer to deep point, can't clear the bigger square boundary. Iyer was threatening to jump across off, then ends up backing away outside leg. Wood bangs it so very short and shifts his lines wider. Iyer loses his shape and holes out. Kohli shakes his head. Another great outing for Wood 86/519.6 Archer runs back from mid-off and completes a spectacular tumbling catch. Dug in short and outside off, Pandya aims to slog it over the midwicket boundary. But can only splice it to Archer who makes this difficult catch look ridiculously easy. Good finish from CJ and Archer 156/6Extras9 (b 1, lb 5, w 3)TOTAL156/6 (20 Overs, RR: 7.8)Fall of wickets: 1-7 (KL Rahul, 2.3 ov), 2-20 (Rohit Sharma, 4.4 ov), 3-24 (Ishan Kishan, 5.2 ov), 4-64 (Rishabh Pant, 11.1 ov), 5-86 (Shreyas Iyer, 14.3 ov), 6-156 (Hardik Pandya, 19.6 ov)
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR3.3 reverse-swept straight into the lap of point. Roy missed reverse-sweeps v Chahal in the first match, got two away for boundaries. This time Roy holes out to Rohit. Pushed through faster on the stumps, Roy dares to reverse it from there but hits it weakly to the infielder. B Arun whistles from the dug out. He enjoyed that wicket 23/19.4 stumped him That was a really quick one, 102 kph, and Malan beaten completely. Was dancing down the track, Sundar fired it in and got slight turn too, enough to get the ball spinning past the outside edge. Pant does the rest 81/2Extras8 (b 4, lb 2, w 2)TOTAL158/2 (18.2 Overs, RR: 8.61)Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Jason Roy, 3.3 ov), 2-81 (Dawid Malan, 9.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB B Kumar 4 0 27 0 6.75 10 3 0 0 0 SN Thakur 3.2 0 36 0 10.80 7 5 1 1 0 YS Chahal 4 0 41 1 10.25 6 3 2 0 0 HH Pandya 3 0 22 0 7.33 3 0 1 1 0 Washington Sundar 4 0 26 1 6.50 7 1 1 0 0
Match Details
Series
Toss
England , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
England led the 5-match series 2-1
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20
Match days
16 March 2021 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 24 runs, 3 wickets)
- India: 50 runs in 9.2 overs (56 balls), Extras 2
- India: 100 runs in 15.6 overs (96 balls), Extras 7
- V Kohli: 50 off 37 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
- 6th Wicket: 50 runs in 23 balls (V Kohli 39, HH Pandya 10, Ex 2)
- India: 150 runs in 19.3 overs (117 balls), Extras 9
- Innings Break: India - 156/6 in 20.0 overs (V Kohli 77)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 57 runs, 1 wicket)
- Over 1.6: Review by India (Bowling), Umpire - VK Sharma, Batsman - JJ Roy (Struck down)
- England: 50 runs in 5.2 overs (32 balls), Extras 1
- JC Buttler: 50 off 26 balls (4 x 4, 3 x 6)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 33 balls (JC Buttler 36, DJ Malan 17, Ex 2)
- England: 100 runs in 11.5 overs (71 balls), Extras 8
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 38 balls (JC Buttler 29, JM Bairstow 16, Ex 6)
- England: 150 runs in 17.5 overs (107 balls), Extras 8
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