India Vs England: The visitors have clawed their way back in this five-match series of the shortest format. England won the 3rd T20 International Match at Rajkot by 26 runs and kept the series alive with still two more games to be played tomorrow and on Sunday, 2nd February 2025.
Ben Duckett was the hero with the bat in the third T20I match on Tuesday. Duckett was the top scorer with 51 runs. Last year in 2024, Duckett smashed 153 runs on the same ground in a red-ball match against India. Adil Rashid was the hero with the white cherry for the visitors in the last game.
For India, Mohammed Shami returned. But he proved ineffective while Hardik Pandya and Varun Chakrabarty picked up the bulk of the wickets. Hardik picked up two scalps to his name and Varun got a five-wicket haul. At the same time, Axar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi picked one wicket each.
India’s batting wasn’t good either, the hero of the second match in Chennai, Tilak Varma scored just 18 runs in Rajkot. Hardik Pandya stood out with 40 runs in the last game which didn’t prove enough for the home side India on a flat deck at Niranjan Shah Stadium.
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India Vs England: Match Details –
Now the next match of this five-match series will be played tomorrow, Friday, 31st January 2025. The fourth T20 International of this series will be played at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune. The match will start live at 7 PM Indian Standard Time and Local, 1.30 PM GMT.
Star Sports Networks will be the television channel for live broadcast and the viewers can also see the live match proceedings through the mobile live streaming app like Disney+Hotstar from 6.30 PM Indian Standard Time (IST) and local, 1 PM onwards for the toss and playing XI updates.
India Vs England: India Won The Match In 2012 When They Played Against England In Pune –
Before the fourth T20I match at Pune of this five-match series in 2025 between India Vs England starts, let us see what happened in the match played between these two sides at the same venue during the series in 2012. India won that game by five wickets under MS Dhoni’s leadership and Eion Morgan was the captain of England in that match.
India won the toss and elected to field first in that game. Alex Hales was the lone top scorer for the visitors with 56 runs in that match and that took them to 157 runs in their allotted quota of 20 overs. Yuvraj Singh was the star in that match as an all-rounder.
Yuvi got three wickets to his name and later he was also the top scorer in the run chase of 157 runs. Singh scored 38 runs to his name and India also had a few contributions which helped the Men in Blue to seal the first T20I match of that series by five wickets in Pune in 2012.
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