{"id":1766,"date":"2021-03-17T00:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2021-03-17T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:19:29","slug":"match-review-england-wins-3rd-t20-vs-india-by-8-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/2021\/03\/17\/match-review-england-wins-3rd-t20-vs-india-by-8-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Review – England wins 3rd T20 vs India by 8 Wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"
At the eve of the 3rd T20 international against India at the Narendra Modi – the World’s largest Cricket Stadium, Eoin Morgan was confident that his India will come back strongly to take the lead in the 5 match T20 series against India despite losing the 2nd T20 match to India by 7 wickets<\/a> due to excellent half centuries by Virat Kohli and debutant Ishan Kishan of the Mumbai Indians IPL side\u00a0 who had a dream debut in the 2nd match and made an aggressive 56 of 32 deliveries to secure the match for India and also received the Man of the Match Award for his aggressive innings.<\/p>\n Despite this loss, Morgan was confident because for the 3rd T20\u00a0 as the pitch that will be used was the one with the Red soil which offers more bounce than the earlier pitches and as Pacer Mark Wood was due for a\u00a0 comeback in this 3rd important match after missing out of the earlier 2nd game, Eoin Morgan was confident that his pace attack boosted by Wood’s Return and Jofra Archer’s fast pace and the red soil offering extra bounce will play a big part in his plan to outwit Team India to win an important match.<\/p>\n Luck was also on his side as he won the toss and immediately opted to bowl so that he could unleash pace and bounce on the Indian batsmen and get them out for a low score which they could then chase easily as the earlier two games favored the teams batting second. Even India’s captain Virat Kohli said at the toss that he would also had preferred to chase.<\/p>\n England courtesy Wood had a great start as he knocked the stumps of KL Rahul in India’s 3rd over with the score 7\/1 with Rahul yet again falling for a duck and continuing his string of binary scores 1 and 0s across the last 4 innings.<\/p>\n Wood continued his pacy streak by following up with the wicket of Rohit Sharma by getting him to mistime a pull shot which was caught by Jofra Archer with India’s score at 20\/2 inside 5 overs. The previous match’s young hero Ishan who in this game batted at Number 3 was the next to depart with a mistimed pull off the bowling of Chris Jordan which was caught by the England keeper Jos Buttler leaving India gaping at 24\/3 in 5.2 overs a tad similar to 22\/3 in the first T20<\/a> which England had comfortably won by 8 wickets.<\/p>\n The Indian Captain Virat Kohli was now joined by Keeper Rishabh Pant and they put on a fighting 40 run partnership when Pant was comically run out in an attempt to make a 3rd run leaving India at 64\/4 inside 12 overs. Shreyas Iyer was the next to depart and became Mark Wood’s 3rd wicket when he skied an easy catch to Dawid Malan and left India hanging at 86\/5\u00a0 in 14.3 overs and England looked on par to stop India within 130 runs. It took a valiant partnership of 70 runs between Kohli and Hardik Pandya which took India to a respectable score of 156\/6 at the end of the innings with Kohli counter-attacking superbly to again remain not out for the second time in the series with a valiant innings of 77 not out with 8 fours and 4 sixes and setting up a decent total for the Indian bowlers to defend with the pitch offering decent pace and bounce.<\/p>\n