Rajkot: With five wickets down, India need 87 off 47 ball to win the third T20I match against England, in Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot, on Tuesday.
Suryakumar Yadav and company entered the pitch looking to wrap up the five-match series after a 2-0 lead.
India, however, lost the wickets of Sanju Samson, Abhishek Sharma and Suryakumar inside the powerplay while chasing 172. Tilak Varma departed soon after and India was 78/4 after 10 overs. Then came the wicket of Washington Sundar, who fell to Craig Overton.
Earlier, India spinner Varun Chakravarthy picked up a superb five-wicket haul, restricting England to 171/9 in 20 overs. With this, he has become the first cricketer to pick 10 wickets or more in a bilateral T20I series between India and England. Chakaravarthy had picked up three and two wickets, respectively, in the first and the second T20I in Kolkata and Chennai.
Ben Duckett was the top scorer with 51, while Liam Livingstone played a handy knock of 43 off 24 balls. Pacer Mohammed Shami comeback to cricket did not go according to plans as he remained wicketless.
In the last match, which was held at Chepuk Stadium, Chennai, India defeated England by two wickets, taking a 2-0 lead in the five-match series thanks to one of Tilak Varma’s greatest innings ever, which came off 55 balls.
